Why the President and myself have not visited Dapchi - Osinbajo

Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, had last weekend, spoken on the reason he and President  Buhari have not visited Dapchi in Yobe State where 110 students were abducted two weeks ago. Both men have been criticised for not paying condolence visits to places where abductions and avoidable deaths were recorded in recent times. Speaking with journalists, Osinbajo said while the government has expressed sympathy with the people, condolence visits alone would not solve the problem. He listed some of the measures which the government has embarked upon to reduce killings and widespread violence. Osinbajo said:  “There is no amount of condolence that can compensate for the loss of life. Benue killing is one set of killing far too much; there is no amount of condolence that can compensate for that. And I want to say that it’s a massive tragedy. “But the question that you seem to ask I’ve been to Zamfara, I’ve been to Adamawa when this killing took place. There are those who said, ‘oh, why don’t you visit the Fulani settlement, why do visit only where Christians were?’ “I even visited Benue in September where there have been killing before, then I’ve visited them when the flooding took place and we looked at all the issues and tried to address many of these. There have been several of these issues in different places, recently Dapchi. We have expressed condolences, but no amount of condolence would do.  The more important thing and our focus has been, is first of all ensuring security in these places.”