Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Communication, has said that Nigeria is safer under the current administration than it was before President Tinubu Ahmed Tinubu took office.
Gatekeepers News reports that speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Bwala noted that incidents such as prison breaks, which were frequent before 2023, have stopped since the president assumed power.
He said, “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 noted that the government has made significant progress in curbing insecurity, even though isolated cases still occur in parts of the country.
He added, “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.”
Addressing recent claims by a group of U.S. senators, including Ted Cruz, alleging genocide against Christians in Nigeria, Bwala dismissed the accusation as false and politically motivated.
He said the allegation originated from a report sponsored by a group with ties to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Bwala said, “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.”
The presidential aide stressed that insecurity in Nigeria is not religiously motivated, insisting that no faith group is being targeted.
He further said that the genocide narrative only gained traction after Vice President Kashim Shettima’s speech at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in September, calling it an orchestrated agenda designed to discredit the government.
