What's Funny About Nigeria's Security Situation?

"I've just seen the IG, I think he's losing weight. So I think he's working very hard." 

The above statement was Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari's response to a question from the press about whether he would change the security strategy or not (in light of the frequency of killings and kidnapping in Northern Nigeria). Many Nigerians have referred to his words as an attempt at a light joke while others have said that it was perfectly in order. Whatever side of the divide you're on, two things are sure: One, the President recently returned from a private visit to the UK amidst alarming insecurity back at home. Two, those words above were one of the first that Nigerians heard from him on his arrival. 

Now, what really pained me about the entire situation was that he chuckled after making the statement in his trademark comic tone. And I ask, what's so funny? Or rather, who is he mocking? Is he mocking the scores of people that died in his absence, their families or Nigerians as a whole? Is the President supposed to be making light statements or statements followed by a chuckle when addressing a security issue especially when the nation is practically on fire? If you ask me, the man looks very comfortable with the current situation of the country despite the fact that most of the places under attack are the part of the country where he hails from. This was the status quo before he went for vague reasons to the UK, a trip he now makes as a routine activity, and on his return, he does not look or act sober, grieved or even determined to stop at nothing to protect his country. Why is that? Does he know something we don't? Does he care less because he has the UK to run to? By the way, this is not the first time he's made such jokes. He once jokingly asked Governor Samuel Ortom of the troubled Benue state, 'how are your cattle rearers?' A total mockery of the lives and security of our people!