APCLyingBastard:
As at 1975, Nigeria's defense budget stood at 45% of the total budget with an army total size at 250,000. Compared ten years earlier in 1966 prior to the civil war, the Nigerian army had a standing force of just 10,000 and the military defense was far lower than what was allocated to institutions like the police.

The likes of T.Y. Danjuma remarked on the danger of having such a large armed forces during peacetime and called on the Murtala and recently ousted Gowon govt to begin a process of demobilization. The Nigerian army according to Danjuma was the biggest welfare scheme in Africa where soldeirs were dying of old age.

Today, the Buhari govt is intending on expanding the Nigerian military to 150,000 over the course of 5yrs.

Why exactly do we need to house and feed 150,000 men whose only main task is to kill the very same civilian citizens who through tax payments fund their Yeye no handwork career?

If Buhari thinks the only solution to Nigeria's ever complex and increasing political solution is to use military brute force to subdue dissent then he obviously is really daft.

A large standing army in peacetime comes with a lot of challenges both financial and also political. The cost of maintaining a large army and the risk of having the army become more policitized increases with a large standing army.

Rather than recruit more soldeirs to fight the ever increasing boko jihadists why not look at what is driving recruitment of northern Muslim youth to join boko haram?


Buhari should begin to use the small sense he still has in that his gerriatic brain. Instead of hiring more soldeirs why not hire more teachers to provide education to the almajiri youth? Instead of buying more tanks to kill your citizens why not build more schools ?

When Jonathan takes over 2019 he should do the same n ensure southerner are more than northerner simple.