Nollywood actress Yvonne Jegede has launched a sharp rebuke of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, accusing it of displaying a glaring lack of humanity in its response to Nigeria’s worsening security situation.
The outspoken entertainer took to Instagram to voice her frustration, making clear that her anger is directed not merely at the existence of insecurity — a challenge no country is immune to — but at what she describes as a dangerously indifferent government attitude toward resolving it.
Jegede did not mince words. In her post, she declared that the Nigerian government “lacks a sense of humanity,” drawing a critical distinction between crime as a global reality and Nigeria’s particular failure of institutional accountability.
“Nigerians are not doormats nor people you just prey on,” she wrote. “Crimes happen everywhere in the world — it is the fact that Nigerians know that no one will ever come looking for them that is the issue.”
Her words cut to the heart of a frustration shared by millions: that it is not crime itself, but the near-total absence of consequence and state response, that has left ordinary citizens feeling utterly abandoned.
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Notably, Jegede broadened her criticism beyond partisan or identity politics, stressing that the victims of insecurity, particularly the recent kidnapping of several school children and teachers span every demographic fault line in the country.
“These atrocities have not been tribal, religious nor class-based,” she stated — a pointed reminder that the crisis is a national emergency, not a sectional grievance, and one that demands a unified government response rather than political deflection.
Jegede’s intervention adds a prominent entertainment industry voice to the growing wave of public condemnation over Nigeria’s security challenges, which have ranged from banditry and kidnapping in the northwest to communal violence across the Middle Belt.
Her willingness to speak plainly — and publicly — reflects a deepening impatience among Nigerians who feel the Tinubu administration has yet to match its security promises with meaningful action on the ground.