Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has said that Nigeria’s elite are the architects of the insecurity ravaging the country.
This was as he accused the elite of creating and sustaining the menace of insecurity, which has claimed thousands of lives and destroyed property worth billions of naira.
Governor Mutfwang stated this at a stakeholder meeting entitled: ‘Dialogue on Community Policing as a Panacea for Insecurity in Nigeria: The Case of Plateau State’.
According to him, the elite have contributed to deepening communal divisions and must take responsibility for reversing the trend.
“My theory is that, more than anybody else, the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria are an elite-created problem. When the elite conspires to lead the people in the wrong direction, we will continue to have this perennial crisis,” he said.
The governor further explained that while the poisoning of minds may often start at the community level, the elite have the power to halt such narratives if they choose to.
“Many a time, you’ll find that even when the poisoning of the mind begins in the community, when the elite take leadership and say it must stop, they’ll address it adequately and it will stop.
“But when the elite fan the embers of hate, they are the people that do their analysis, that begin to spew knowledge, information, and poison the minds of ordinary people — then it will be sustained,” he added.
