According to a report by Channels TV, on Sunday November 30, 2025, The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has issued a powerful call for the Presidency to take immediate and concrete steps to address the nation’s pervasive insecurity crisis, urging the President to move beyond initial responses to a path of deep accountability and restitution.
While acknowledging that the President has made initial efforts to respond to the situation, Bakare stressed that a new, short-term set of objectives must be pursued under the current administration’s leadership.
The core of Pastor Bakare’s demand centers on the need for the Nigerian state to formally acknowledge its failure to protect citizens over the decades.
He explicitly urged the President to take personal responsibility for these governmental shortcomings.
“Number one, acknowledge the responsibility of the Nigerian state. This will entail the president owning the failure of government over the decades to protect the victims and survivors of banditry terrorism and other forms of insecurity rather than saying it didn’t begin with me. It’s time for you to take action.”
Bakare detailed the steps required for this public acknowledgement, starting with the creation of a definitive record of those affected by the violence.
“It will entail opening a victims and survivors register.”
Following this, the Cleric demanded a formal, solemn address to the nation within a defined timeframe, culminating in an apology.
“Then at the end of three months in a solemn address to the nation, the president would tender an apology on behalf of the Nigerian state to victimized communities across the nation, calling each community by name and possibly some of the families most gruesomely hit in the attacks.”
Pastor Bakare connected this act of governmental apology directly to the next phase of restitution, emphasizing that acknowledgement is the necessary precursor to financial and material support for the victims.
He added; “Such an acknowledgement will expectably be followed by compensation in the midterm phase.” View, More,
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