By Polycarp Onwubiko
Sad indeed that Nigeria remains a funny enclave, a continental disaster and shame of African countries. The sad question is that the billions of public funds budgeted for defense since the Buhari Administration in 2015 down to president Tinubu in 2023, Nigerians are wondering aloud where the humongous amounts went going by the ever escalating incidence of Islamic invaders, terrorists masquerading as herdsmen.
These terrorists masquerading
as herdsmen have the borders in the northern part of the country thrown open
for their easy infiltration while the federal government would have Nigerians
believe that the borders in the North are so many that they cannot be manned by
the immigration men and officers. Who is fooling whom?
The imported terrorists from the Sahel region
of West Africa are for territorial expansion as they are occupying the deserted
villages and settling with their families while the survived displaced
indigenous population, after being mindlessly slaughtered were quartered in
makeshift refugee resettlements dying of hunger and malnutrition cum occasional
invasion by the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen and kidnapping them.
Serial kidnapping, raping,
burning houses and farmhouses and products, eating up farm products by the cows
driven by the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen, taking ransom in millions
without being arrested by the supposed Nigerian security agents etc. during
Buhari eight years of the locust is still the same sordid stories in Tinubu's
administration.
In his article captioned:
"Now trouble is awake in the neighborhood" By Dare Babarinsa,
Guardian March 28, 2024 enumerated modern technology used in other countries in
tracking criminals’ terrorists and curbing religious insurgencies. Listing the
weapons or modern technology, he said:
"In this modern era, a
strong investment in science, phone tracking (used by Akinwale and his men),
drones, face-reading gadget, voice-print, finger-print, laser weapons and
others, would help to protect life and property".
Before the above listing of
modern weapons for tackling terrorists and kidnapping gangs, he wondered aloud
by saying:
"How can we say we are
living in the modern world and yet kidnappers would make phone calls many times
and they would never be tracked?”
***Comment:
Kudos to the author of this
eye-opening article, of course, I have read such articles but unfortunately, Nigeria
is a study in management and governance disaster. That was why international
institutions have described Nigeria leadership as "a continental disaster,
a disgrace to Africa".
The ignoble destination is
justified because with the great natural and mineral resources exploited since
the country's independence in 1960, the country has registered development
disarticulation and disaster. Today Nigeria is the headquarter of multi-dimensional
poverty: a country that has " lost sovereignty" according to a columnist
because the leadership cannot be in firm control of the territories as non-state
actors are controlling vast expanse of its territory and kidnapping, rapping
and proving that they are Islamic invaders whose objective is not hidden; that
is to establish Islamic state.
Public fund is not a problem
for the past and present federal government in terms of making adequate
budgetary provisions for the Defense sector. The past and present presidents
have whatever it takes to purchase the modern technology listed above to wipe
out terrorists and Islamic invaders masquerading as herdsmen occupying villages
and effortlessly kidnapping with huge ransom and making phone calls to take the
money.
Who is fooling whom in the
country which some analysts had described as " the already expired
Nigeria"? How much will it cost the federal government in the procurement
of modern technology which other countries are using to nail terrorists and
religious insurgencies?
The United Arab Emirates, UAE
released names of Nigerian sponsoring terrorists yet Nigeria people are being
told cock and bull stories on why the kidnappers cannot be tracked and wiped
out in the forests and jungles including flushing the terrorists masquerading
as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa occupying villages vacated by
the indigenous people languishing in makeshift refugee resettlements and dying
in droves while the Aso Villa occupants are quaffing drinks of assorted types
typical of the saying that "Rome burns while the Pharoah was playing
fiddle".
Actually Nigerians and the
international community know that Nigeria leadership past and present has not
been seriously committed to wiping out terrorists and kidnapping syndicate.
They stridently kicked against restructuring the lopsided Federation to
reinvent the realistic principles of federal system of government with
decentralized security architecture as integral part. This will truncate the
Islamization agenda. Again, who is fooling whom in the already expired Nigeria?
Polycarp Onwubiko, media
commentator writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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