From Paul Orude Bauchi
Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned about what he observed as the rise of terrorism in Nigeria
He who spoke in Bauchi when he paid a homage to the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Suleiman-Adamu, said all hands must be on the deck to tackle the security challenges in the country..
He said all hands must be on the deck to tackle the security challenges in the country.
“These criminals did not fall from heaven. They are in our midst,” he stated.
The former president who was in Bauchi to commission projects executed by Governor Bala Mohammed commended the efforts of security agencies in the country to tackle insecurity.
Meanwhile Obasanjo has revealed that he once suffered 25 per cent hearing loss without knowing it.
He said many people in the world were deaf without knowing it until they go for medical checks on their hearing capacity before it would be revealed to them.
He recounted that he was abroad and could not hear clearly when someone was talking to him, and insisted nothing was wrong with his ears.
He said the man asked his permission to check on the ears and the result of the clinical analysis showed he was 25 per cent deaf.
“After my result came out, I had to ask the man to also check on my Chief Security Officer then but shockingly enough, he was more deaf than I was,” he said.
This experience, he said, formed the creation of the Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation, adding that thousands of Nigerians had benefited from its ear treatment and provision of hearing aids in partnership with Starkey Hearing Foundation.
The former president said he would inaugurate the distribution of hearing aid targeting about 10,000 indigent people in the North-East, starting from Bauchi State where 2,000 people would benefit.
He said the exercise, tagged: ‘Sound Intervention Mission so Nigerians may hear’ would be implemented under the Obasanjo Foundation.
Sulriman-Adamu said Obasanjo’s presence in the state is a sign of his deep commitment toward the development and progress of all regions in the country.