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Moles All Over Nigeria!!!. by eddyj36(m): 9:17am On May 26, 2013 |
When President Goodluck Jonathan observed not long ago that members of a dreaded insurgent group had infiltrated his own government, some people thought it was politics. From the look of things, it is becoming difficult to doubt the assertion. Although it might not be easy to identity insurgents within the federal cabinet as they may never openly portray a combatant disposition, they are probably there as patron moles who supply information on the workings of government to the insurgents. Such people have always been in such privileged positions anyway. Some persons who had been in the corridors of power years back can confirm that the popular incessant strike actions on prices of petroleum products in the Obasanjo administration were partly fuelled by information from top government officials to labour. The way it worked was this: Once the strike was about to start, the privileged officials would quickly seize the opportunity to extract approvals of huge resources supposedly to quell the strikes. There is doubt if government ever knew the real roles of some of the committees it assembled to resolve crises. Some members probably passed information to the other side thereby making resolution difficult as well as turning the matter into a recurring phenomenon. Can it also be true that there are insurgents among our law enforcement agencies? It would appear so because there have always been stories to that effect. Indeed, the Nigerian judiciary had in the past convicted moles in our Police that helped criminals in diverse ways to wreck havoc on society. A good example being the celebrated underworld gun trotter, Lawrence Anini who with the unfettered support of a police officer instilled fear in all and sundry for quite some time in Benin City. At the height of his reign of terror, he masterminded the shooting of the then State Commissioner of Police. Contrary to the general belief that Anini had some ‘juju’ powers, part of which he used to trace the Commissioner to the spot where the latter was shot, his real power was later found to be that he had a mole in the Police. It is this type of story that convinces many people that it is moles in the security agencies that coordinate criminal operations. How come, some would ask, that the Police usually arrive at a robbery scene only when the criminals have concluded their business and have left the area? Would anyone blame those who are reluctant to help the police with vital information? In the recent past, the celebrated case of a suspected terrorist who was arrested and reportedly allowed to escape later is another issue that has remained inexplicable. It is on the same score, that the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been asking everyone to help unravel a case in which the ammunition which by police record was in police custody was the same one allegedly used to kill his principal secretary. Early this month, the police arrested one of its men assumed to have leaked the information that led to the ambush of security agents who were on a mission to arrest some suspected cultists in Nasarawa State. Since then, no less than 15 police officers and men accused of connivance with the cult group to massacre their colleagues have been arrested. Whereas it has become easy to believe the allegation that moles in the Police are part of the nation’s complicated security dilemma, the police is not the only place where there are moles. They are in earnest all over Nigeria The latest suspected mole in the Nasarawa massacre is not a police personnel but a Director in the civil service of the Nasarawa State Government. According to media reports, security agents who were still peeved over the killing of their colleagues by the dreaded Ombatse Cult Group swooped on the Director after tracing certain vital information leaked to the cult group to his telephone. If this is shocking, a more scaring story is that which says that there are now moles in our revered military. On January 19 this year, a Mali-bound military convoy was ambushed and attacked by insurgents in Okene, Kogi State leading to the death of 2 soldiers while 5 others were injured. The Army has now confirmed that the ambush was made possible by information leaked by a soldier to the insurgents. According to Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), the soldier, who is now in detention, is awaiting court martial in connection with the leakage. The consolation the rest of us now have is that the army is dealing with the issue in a down-to-earth manner. The pragmatism must not be inchoate – it has to be taken to its logical conclusion. The way any one found wanting is being handled, the recent stern warning by the COAS at a seminar organized by the Army at the Transformation and Innovation Centre, that all offenders would be decisively dealt with and the public enlightenment initiative on the subject are no doubt reassuring. Now that moles have become a crucial part of our security challenges, the Army must reform its recruitment process so as always attract only applicants with some measure of integrity. A continuous assessment of operatives for which the Army is well known should more than ever before incorporate a strategy which easily identifies and quickly uproots operatives that have a tendency to degenerate into moles. In addition, how to handle a mole should form an essential part of the strategy for forecasting, planning and coordinating the arrangements for combating terrorism. The Police on its part may find it hard to deal with the subject because of long years of neglect and subsisting prejudices but if it prioritizes the issue, it would not be insurmountable. Nothing else dislocates an arrangement better than saboteur -insiders. The issue of moles in Nigeria’s public institutions has escalated to a proportion in which no organization is free from it. This is thus the time to deal with the subject before we record more moles than citizens. www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/moles-all-over-nigeria/ .. |
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