Bwala said payment of ransoms to kidnappers would give the criminals more access to weapons and the insecurity problem would get worse.
Dr Daniel Bwala, a former spokesman for the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation has berated Nigerian security operatives over their inability to track the location of terrorists disturbing the peace of the country.
The People Democratic Party stakeholder said during an interview on Friday morning on an Arise News TV programme monitored by SaharaReporters. He declared his support for President Bola Tinubu’s stand that no ransom should be paid to the terrorists who abducted scores of schoolchildren in Kaduna early this month.
Bwala said payment of ransoms to kidnappers would give the criminals more access to weapons and the insecurity problem would get worse.
He said, “I agree with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because one, he must have been briefed based on intelligence that individuals behind these ransom things are white-collar people and so continuing to discuss and giving of ransom is feeding off this crisis economy, thereby financing them and in turn procure more harms and build that economy much stronger than our oil and gas.
“They said that they are giving 15 days if ransom is not paid, they will kill the children, 15 days is enough time for all of them to be decimated. So this is where the question of intelligence comes. All of these investments in the procurement of devices for tracking and tracing, for surveillance and interceptions where is it? Where are they?
“Are they functional? When somebody steals a phone, law enforcement will geo-track the person and catch him, but when a terrorist is involved in a crime, it becomes an issue. So everybody comes with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu with one narrative so that he can approve money but we have not asked the ones that were provided before? What you have done with them.”