Jimeta said the effect of bad leadership is felt at all tiers of government.
Jimeta, who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja as chairman of the national security summit organised by the Nigeria Police and the Vanguard Newspapers, said: “Owing to prolonged bad leadership, corruption and insensitivity to the plight of the ordinary people, successive governments have entrenched a culture of misplaced priority.
“So, we are witnesses to what had been happening since independence.
“Gradually this notion of not providing for the basic needs of our people brought us to our knees.
“Everybody is crying.
“Everybody is kneeling down.
“The insecurity we have in the country now is a self-inflicted situation by previous governments, leaders and other stakeholders who could not really understand that if one Nigerian has a feeling of insecurity and he is afraid to go about his business and enjoy the God given rights that a state is supposed to give him, it is that one person that is weakening the wellbeing of the state.
“What I want us to understand is that our current situation is very self-inflicted, arising not only from the situation in Nigeria, but almost all developing countries.
“You cannot have a state and fail to provide for the institutions of the state that are supposed to secure the state and therefore its citizens.”
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