Bashir Ahmaad, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to severe criticism being meted to his principal and the presidency following bandits attack on the Kaduna-Abuja train.
Buhari, Bashir and other members of the Buhari-led administration were seriously dragged and heavily criticised online after the news of the death of a female doctor, Chinelo and other passengers emerged online.
Chinelo was among the eight passengers who were confirmed dead on Tuesday after terrorists attacked the train.
Bashir, reacting, advised Nigerians not to let their hate for the current administration or him affect their love for Nigeria.
His tweet read, “To dislike me or the government I work for is a freedom of choice, which I understand and respect, but please don’t let the dislike affects the love you have for this country.
“Eight years ago we weren’t here, and a year + months we won’t be around, but Nigeria stays with us forever.”
Meanwhile, the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi put the blame on the government for failing to approve N3 billion worth of equipment to secure the lives of citizens on the train.
Amaechi, while inspecting the site of the bombing of the rail line between the Katari and Rijana train station along the Kaduna-Abuja route said the transport ministry has done its very best to secure equipment but has not gotten approval.
“For me, I am devastated and honestly, I don’t know what to tell Nigerians anymore.
“We’ve done all we need to do in the ministry of transport, we have forwarded them for approval but we have not gotten approval.
“What we need is a technology that lets you know that there are human activities or foreign activities on the track, that way, you can secure the locomotive and secure lives and I had warned earlier that it is important they get us this approval because human lives would be involved. Since that warning till today, we have had two incidents.”
