The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said that Nigerians are now safer under the current administration than they were before Tinubu assumed office.
Bwala made the claim on Sunday, October 12, during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, where he argued that major security breaches such as prison breaks had stopped since Tinubu came to power.
“Nigerians are superlatively safer today than they were. You know, before 2023, there were prison breaks everywhere in Nigeria — even here in Abuja.
“You couldn’t come out; in broad daylight, they would come and kidnap people — before President Bola Tinubu came on board,” Bwala said.
“After he became president, we have not had prison breaks. People are going about their businesses all over the country. We see skirmishes of insecurity every now and then, which is usual.
“If you look at the crime record now, the crimes that are committed in America in one day are more than the ones committed in Nigeria.”
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Speaking further, Bwala dismissed recent allegations by some United States senators, led by Senator Ted Cruz, claiming there was genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
He said the senators’ claims were based on misinformation and influenced by groups linked to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
“This report was written by the Inter Liberty Civil Society and Rule of Law, it is founded in Nigeria and it is in Onitsha. Most of the responses they made were in this report.
“Now, if you look at this report which was first published in August and then they updated it in September, you will know that this is a pure case of agenda, and it has IPOB backing,” he said.
Bwala maintained that insecurity in Nigeria was not religiously motivated, stressing that no faith was being deliberately targeted.
He described the genocide claim as a political agenda that surfaced after Vice President Kashim Shettima’s address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in September.