Nigeria’s Minister of Defense – retired Major General Bashir Magashi has lamented the state of insecurity in the country, saying that the nation is bleeding.

Magashi made this known on Thursday at the continuation of the special weekly ministerial briefing in Abuja – Nigeria’s capital.

The minister said that the Federal Government has taken a position after embarking on comprehensive research and finally adopted a methodology to ensure that tactically, all political opponents, ethnic and religious enemies of the country are eliminated.

According to the minister, the country is bleeding because of self-interests and underlined decisions by quite a number of the elites whose ideas are to exploit the social division for their political gains.