If you have these, and Bandits still go about freely, invading Schools and Churches in Kaduna State and the entire North West, kidnapping and killing randomly, then, you do not deserve another day on your job. They are killing Nigerians every day, demanding money recklessly, and getting paid ceaselessly, while Aso Rock and members of the National Assembly remain inconsiderate spectators. I have never seen such an absurd level of disconnect about Nigerian leadership since my teenage years. Nigerians are dying every day and there is no end in sight. Sunday Igboho almost dies, but is now in exile, on the run for his dear life. Nnamdi Kanu travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, from the UK a free man, only to wake up one day in Abuja, Nigeria, hands, and legs in handcuffs. If you have the resources to do what you did to Kanu and Igboho, invariably, you have the resources to stem the tide of banditry and kidnapping all over Nigeria. And if you can invade my Facebook account and delete my work while I am typing it, it means you can unravel the whereabouts and movement of Bandits and Kidnappers all over Nigeria. That you are not doing it, is not only a shame, but a betrayal of the trust that the people of Nigeria have in every one of you (Mr. President, the National Assembly, National Security Adviser, and the Minister of the Defense) who you have sworn an oath to defend and protect.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The Enemies Within the Nigerian Armed Forces. November 09, 2021
The enemies within are so daring because President Mohammadu Buhari made it clear to them via his body language and utterances that Nigeria is not one country. Time and time again, after every ambush and attack by the Boko Haram sect on members of our armed forces, those who were lucky to survive always say the same thing. That they were being shot at from different directions. Reading those stories does make me sad. And I have never stopped asking myself the question: who are the armed men shooting at our soldiers from different directions after every ambush? Also, how did the attackers obtain information about the deployment or movement of our soldiers and the routes they were taking or where they were going?
These are the enemies in military uniforms. And they are the ones who always collaborate with the attackers to shoot at their colleagues from different directions. You are seeing one of them in the picture before your eyes. In a few days, he will be out of prison, free to continue the killing of our finest young men and women in uniforms. And that's what President Buhari and his unpatriotic trusted security clique have turned Nigeria into - a highly compromised military. And I called it the disappearance of esprit de corps in the Nigerian Military establishment in my previous essays on this subject. This man is destroying Nigeria, destabilizing Nigeria for goals that remain undecipherable.
It will take years before the Nigerian Armed Forces can purge itself of these Boko Haram-sympathetic elements the Buhari's team is perpetuating on our security networks. For what purpose? I do not know. To continue to gain an undue advantage in the Nigerian political equation? To continue spending massively on defence procurements for the enrichment of bogus defence contractors, like the guy from the Niger Republic? So, what do President Buhari and his people really want from Nigeria? You have the crude oil, NPA, Customs and Immigration, DSS, NNPC, and the entire Military and Security networks, yet your people are still carrying guns all over the place kidnapping and killing Nigerians.
What is the war for or about? To conquer the Middle Belt and dip the Quran into the Ocean? What exactly do you guys want? Even though you have dominated the Military establishment and the entire political leadership structure since the end of the civil war in 1970, your region, your people, our Talakawas, our Abokis, and our Almajiri remain Nigerian worst nightmare. You hijacked the political system and the leadership structure; opposed free education at all levels to punish and frustrate Southern children, and in the process, failed to educate your people. Without hope on the horizon for the Nigerian leadership, Southern children ran away from Nigeria in record numbers by any means necessary to seek refuge in foreign lands. Sadly, because you have left the Northern region so undeveloped, mentally, socially, and economically, over-dependence on handouts from the government turns out to be the culture.
That culture is traceable to the curse of crude oil. And that's a Master's Thesis or PhD project for any Nigerian student who cares: Why is the impact of the Curse of Crude Oil in Nigeria more pronounced in the Northern region where there is no crude oil as opposed to the South or Niger Delta where the crude oil and natural gas are located? It's about control and who benefits or depends on it.