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Buhari’s Security Chiefs Are Tired! Let Them Go! - Dr David Olufon. by z07ion: 3:09pm On Aug 14, 2020 |
In spite of the fact that the Nigerian Government under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari seems to be losing grips with the security challenges of the nation, his helmsmen kept deceiving him that they were “on top of the situation”! Has the Commander-In-Chief lost his military prowess of strategies to secure citizens lives/properties and confounded with the quagmire of massive criticisms from virtually all traumatised citizens? People are no longer comfortable with the present security architecture which crumbles at all fronts by the day through terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and gunmen attacks which have been so devastating in a nation held to ransom by tired Service Chiefs who should have been retired at the end of his first tenure! Apart from the news that youths agitations which have continuously clamoured for improvements in security architecture, the general consensus is that all service chiefs be removed for fresh/determined officers with brilliant ideas to be appointed to revolutionize the system. State governors who belong to the All Progressives Congress have also joined the conversation to tell President Muhammadu Buhari to address the unhealthy security situation urgently! From north to south and from East to West, insecurity and hostility has taken unprecedented dimensions and nobody seems safe. BOKO HARAM ATTACK ON GOVERNOR ZULUM OF BORNU STATE! Recently Bornu State Governor was attacked by Boko Haram terrorists while visiting Baga Local Government, which was considered safe. However the Army was wrong because they did not strategize properly for his return journey to the State Capital, Maiduguri as gunshots were fired on his convoy and the soldiers had to shelter him into an armoured vehicle which ferried him to safety. The youth group which is known as "Revolution Now", staged protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Ondo, Lagos, Osun stater and demanded for tight security and good governance They claimed that the whole nation was under Boko Haram/Fulani herdsmen bandit attacks and that even the President's home state was not spared! Kaduna State has become the worst hit because lots of killings have been going on by unknown gunmen in the past several weeks whereas Nigeria has a retinue of security agencies beginning with the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force (the armed forces), not excluding the civil security and defence Corps the State Security Service, (SSS), the Police Mobile Force, yet insecurity persists everyday! Now Nigerians are faced with TWO evil agents of (1) disunity and destabilization ravaging at the same time and (2) persistent insecurity which has overstretched security agents coupled with Covid-19 pandemic which is taking its toll on all people whether young, old, rich or poor! Which is more dangerous, is it the physical security or invisible insecurity? But from all indications Nigeria is sandwiched between the Red Sea and Pharaoh's Army (ie, between ludicrous spokesmen and the reality of daily fatality due to insecurity of lives and properties), and only trusting that divine intervention would rescue the land without doing the needful since the present government seemed to be at its wit's end! When the "Revolution Now" Group protested at the Federal Capital Territory and four states of Nigeria recently, government spokesman 'Femi Adesina described their action as “childish and. Irritant”! And we want to ask what is irritant or childish in asking government to protect its people without provoking them to resorting to self-defence, civil disobedience or anarchy which Government has dissuaded all citizens against? ALIEN INVASION IN NIGERIA? Nigeria may be under alien terrorist invasion that even all security forces would not be able to contain! The United States Commander Special Operations Command Major General Dagavin Anderson in the past week (Tuesday, 4th August, 2020), cautioned that the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups were exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria and gradually taking over the West African region after losing ground in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East. But just like 'Femi Adesina who sits on a "high horse", the Co-ordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche said that the Military High Command of Nigeria's Defence Headquarters was NOT ALARMED because their activities were not new! His verbatim statement: " The Nigerian armed forces is not oblivious of the potency of such infiltration noting that it was the Nigerian military which raised the alarm of movement of terrorist from the Middle East to West Africa and is conscious also of the movement of insurgents from Libya which was equally revealed by the Nigerian Security Services. Our attention being drawn to the fact that terrorist from others zones are coming here; I think it will be good for us to be keeping records of events as they unfold. For me, this is not the first time they are raising such an alarm; the alarm is as old as maybe 5 or 10 years and the Armed Forces and the country are conscious of it. “Have we not captured foreigners among the people that have been terrorizing us in this country? So it is just like a call to keep doing what we are doing so the general public should know that the security agencies are ON TOP OF THAT ONE.” QUESTIONS BEGGING FOR ANSWER! Now that the Nigerian Army has admitted that alien terrorist have been with us for FIVE TO TEN YEARS according to the Major General, it means that, right from the onset in 2009, the military had been battling with both the Boko Haram and alien forces simultaneously to prolong the battle which should have been won with less logistics and funding! It should not have been so difficult for the Nigerian army and all other security forces to have won the battle now in its 11th year! President Muhammadu Buhari promised to protect the people, secure their lives and properties doing his political campaigns in 2014 and 2019 respectively, securing of the nation's borders, roads and highways which would be his priority. Has he kept those promises? Apart from recapturing 17 Local Governments previously occupied by Boko Haram before 2015 in the early months of his first term, not much had gains had been made in crushing the terrorists till date while lives and properties of the peasants – TALKAWAS, who always bore the brunt, were daily destroyed without compensation! According to the Commander-In-Chief, Boko Haram was technically defeated all over the land and that there was no place in Nigeria that was occupied by the insurgents; we make bold to say that boko Haram insurgents doubles as Bandits in other geopolitical areas of the country and also as killer herdsmen who carry AK-47 rifles and destroy lives and properties from the north-east Borno State, moving down into the North Central/Niger States and Nasarawa State, killing and maiming without any form of challenge from security agents! SOLUTIONS TO THE ENTIRE INSECURITY QUAGMIRE! Soldiers in the battle fronts complained of delay in payment and at times non-payment of allowances. They should be promptly paid! Many combatants in the trenches have overstayed their contract! They should be discharge immediately to return to their families before next deployments. Some commanders have been accused of abuse of their offices! They should be probed without further delay or cover-up! It is common knowledge that the Armed Forces and other security agencies are overstretched! Monthly recruitment should be introduced to absorb the teeming youths who are well qualified to become gainfully employed. Government should source for more revenues by seriously implementing the ORANSANYE REPORT, which is already in progress AND ALSO CLOSE DOWN THE NATION’S DRAIN-PIPE KNOWN AS THE SENATE, REDUCE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO 74 AND SAVE OVER ONE TRILLION NAIRA ANNUALLY TO SUPPLEMENT SECURITY VOTES! OR, which alternative would President Buhari chose? KEEP CHARLATANS AND MONEY MONGERS AROUND HIMSELF AND DEPART OFFICE IN DISGRACE OR CAST THEM AWAY TO KEEP HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND PROVIDE THE BEST AND ADEQUATE SECURITY FOR THE PEASANTS – THE TALAKAWAS WHOM HE SWORE TO PROTECT EVEN WITH HIS BLOOD! BUHARI IS A VERY WISE MAN, HE WOULD DO THE LATTER! WE RECOMMEND THAT HE SHOULD CONSULT WITH THE SENEGALESE PRESIDENT WHO CLOSED THAT THE NATION’S SENATE SUCCESSFULLY AND IS AT PEACE WITH HIS CITIZENS! “A word is enough for the wise”! I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com. |
Re: Buhari’s Security Chiefs Are Tired! Let Them Go! - Dr David Olufon. by Nobody: 3:14pm On Aug 14, 2020 |
How do you expect father (Buhari) to apprehend his children (Boko Haram) |
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