Bandits’ threat to kidnap president not a national concern – Keyamo

Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that the threat by bandits to kidnap the president is not a national concern.

Keyamo made this assertion while speaking during an interview with Politics Today on Channels Television.

He described the people issuing threats to kidnap the President as “mad men.”

Keyamo, stated that anybody could make such kidnap threat, adding that does not call for national concern.

He stated that security breaches do not justify that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has failed.

Keyamo said, “It is only in heaven where there will be no security breaches. We are not in heaven yet.

“There are jailbreaks in America, but that doesn’t mean Government has failed,” he said.

On the current Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU strike, the Minister said the government will not allow the union to plunge it into another burden of borrowings.

He revealed that the federal government has explored all avenues to reach a truce, but the striking ASUU members turned deaf ears.

Keyamo stated that ASUU failed to honour dialogue with the key stakeholders holding the purse of the federal government.

He said the government cannot go beyond its capacity, because it is not only ASUU that is feeding from the federal government purse.