{"id":41869,"date":"2021-06-03T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=41869"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:03:46","slug":"insecurity-does-not-make-nigeria-a-failed-state-lai-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/03\/insecurity-does-not-make-nigeria-a-failed-state-lai-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity does not make Nigeria a failed state \u2014 Lai Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says it is \u201cpreposterous\u2019\u2019 for anyone to declare Nigeria a failed state on the basis of the country\u2019s security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this in response to a recent declaration by the Council on Foreign Affairs in the United States that \u201cNigeria is at a point of no return with all the signs of a failed nation\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Thursday in Abuja, the minister stressed that \u201cNigeria is not and cannot be a failed state\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said the declaration by the Council did not represent an official US policy.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThis declaration is merely the opinions of two persons, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations John Campbell, and the President Emeritus of World Peace Foundation, Robert Rotberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclaring any nation a failed state is not done at the whims and caprices of one or two persons, no matter their status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because Nigeria is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/03\/insecurity-niger-govt-bans-commercial-motorcycles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security challenges<\/a>, which we have acknowledged and which we are tackling, does not automatically make the country a failed state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister added, \u201cYes, the Council on Foreign Relations is a prominent US public policy Think Tank, but its opinion is not that of the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike former US Senator Daniel Moynihan said, \u201dYou are entitled to your opinion but not your facts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed reiterated that Nigeria did not meet the criteria for a nation to become a failed state.<\/p>\n<p>He listed the criteria to include inability to provide public service and inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the non-state actors may be rampaging in some parts of the country, they have not and cannot overwhelm this government,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that it was not the first time it was predicted that Nigeria would fail or break up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were even once told that Nigeria would break up in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut their doomsday predictions have all failed and will fail again,\u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says it is \u201cpreposterous\u2019\u2019 for anyone to declare Nigeria a failed state on the basis of the country\u2019s security challenges. 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