After considering the innumerable fatalities suffered by the Nigerian Armed Forces in the North East in recent times, and the fact that the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Army Staff, and the Service Chiefs are still holding on to their jobs and the President of the country whose responsibility is it to demand immediate explanations for the fatalities, failed to act in line with the calls of his office, then, with due respect, such a President is not fit for the exalted position of a Commander-in-Chief.
It takes humility, passion, and intuitive conviction to lead. President Buhari doesn't have any of it. He has unleashed a permanent damage on the rank and file of our Armed Forces. The culture of esprit de corps, pride of any Armed Forces globally is gone in Nigeria.
The North East is surrounded by friendly nations that are at the same time hostile to the Boko Haram sect. Therefore, the argument that the fighters are foreign mercenaries or that our inability to police our borders facilitates the recruitment drive across Cameroon, Chad, and Niger axis don't hold water.
Who is funding the insurgency? Who is arming the sect? Who benefits monetarily from the insurgency? Whose ideas was it to conscript or enlist the released Boko Haram sect into the Nigerian Armed Forces? Did we consider their educational level or extent of their loyalty to the State?
Where they enlisted in the fashion President Buhari and some of his colleagues were conscripted by Sir Almadu Bello into the budding Nigerian Armed Forces, in total disregard of their educational backgrounds?
Are we in short supply of able, competent and mentally balanced Nigerians applying into the Nigerian Armed Forces?
If we're in short supply, why didn't we deep into these pool of eligible candidates, and in the process enrich our Armed Forces with modern and technology savvy religious neutral minds?
The best we could do for the hastily released sect members is to admit them into educational or vocational training institutions where on graduation, they would become more useful to themselves and the society.
Again, why enlisting them into the Nigerian Armed Forces? For Christ sake, this is not a regional army, but the Nigerian Armed Forces. The men and women in uniform being wasted daily are Nigerians.
In all the cases of the attacks so far, those who survived have similar stories to tell - "we were being shot at from different directions, and the sect was better armed."
The Minister of Defense is still standing. Burutai remains unruffled. And the President is at peace with himself, campaigning for reelection. No action is taken. And no one is getting fired.
That said, the money we should be investing in education, research, and development, as well as infrastructural facilities, is continuously dissipated on a war without end. Yet, Nigeria is a religion-neutral free nation-state.
What a curse to the nation!
Killer Herders on the rampage. Killer sect reigning supreme. Illiteracy on the rise. Poverty sweeping the entire landscape.
Yet, an unknown cartel exudes a sense of entitlement to the Presidency of this country. What have you to show for the love we give and the sacrifice we made over the years? What a curse to the nation! What a curse you're, really, to our collective and diverse interests!
Given the fact that President Buhari was openly deferential to and supportive of the sect just a few years ago, it is not out of reason to hold the President and all the Boko Haram sympathizers during the Jonathan Presidency responsible for the ongoing fatalities in the military and the wastage of our financial resources. I beg to conclude.
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