By Polycarp Onwubiko
Addressing security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies at Aso Rock, President Tinubu, while pressing the security agencies to tackle the pervasive and intractable insecurity ravaging the entire country, pretended that he does not know the effective and efficient security architecture of multi-level policing practiced in federations worldwide.
Tinubu discussed the prospect
of a " $1 trillion economy," which may not be realized with the
disastrous insecurity template in the country. Despite Nigeria's abundant
arable land for massive investments in agro-allied industries, cattle ranches
with value chains, and small-scale agri-business requiring significant road
infrastructure in the hinterlands, better managed by state governments with a
review of monthly statutory allocation skewed to give them more than a 70
percent share, Tinubu appears reluctant to confront the stark reality of
multi-level policing.
Eight months in power should
have been sufficient for Tinubu to unveil an effective and efficient security
arrangement template involving multi-level policing. Unfortunately, he seems to
be procrastinating due to the apparent opposition from a section of the country
that claimed responsibility for his occupancy of Aso Rock. This faction
vehemently opposes decentralized security architecture, an integral part of the
much-desired restructuring of the lopsided federation to restore realistic
principles of a federal system of government, as practiced in other federations
like the US and Canada.
The worst situation in Nigeria
today is the food crisis resulting in food inflation, forcing multidimensional
poor people to scavenge refuse dumps for edible items to serve as sustenance,
especially for their hungry children who are no longer attending school.
The ongoing food crisis is a
direct outcome of the federal government allowing terrorists masquerading as
herdsmen imported from the Sahel region of West Africa to engage in ethnic
cleansing and territorial expansion in southern Kaduna and middle belt states.
The federal government, under the Buhari administration and now Tinubu, chose
to pretend that it is not a problem. Consequently, the security agencies look
away as Islamic insurgent terrorists seize territories and establish physical
occupation with their ragtag families.
General TY Danjuma from the
middle belt states, having read the ominous handwriting on the wall, told the
affected people to bestir themselves to defend themselves, as the army is not
neutral in the ethnic cleansing and genocidal tendencies of the marauding
terrorists, who serve as undisguised foot soldiers for the age-long planned Islamization
agenda of the "Caliphate Colonialists and Northern Political Emirates
Establishment."
In summary, President Tinubu's
briefing to the security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies seems to be
a mere attempt to raise false hope among Nigerians, while the pervasive and
intractable insecurity continues without any remedy. This is because
multi-level policing does not align with the strident stance of the supposed
section of the country that facilitated his occupancy of Aso Rock. Time will
likely prove this media commentator right.
Federal
Government's Alarming Inability to Address FCT’s Insecurity,
PUNCH Editorial on January 16,
2024, laments:
"... This shows the
Nigerian state is rapidly losing its grip on controlling non-state actors.
There seems to be no difference between the incumbent and his predecessor.
"It is alarming that the
Federal Capital Territory, where all the major security formations are well
represented due to federal presence, is under perpetual siege... in all of
this, perpetrators go scot-free, which encourages criminality (read terrorists
and Islamic insurgents) to thrive."
What a shame; it is not enough
to realize the "Emilokan* mantra, but can Nigeria be a safe place for
living, let alone attracting Foreign Direct Investments, FDI? Of course, it
will amount to daydreaming.
Polycarp Onwubiko, Media
Commentator
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