Focus On The Merits Of Buratai’s Advice, Daniel Banjo Tells Nigerians

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Focus on the merits of Buratais&&num;8217&semi;s advice and lets queue behind Buratai’s advice says Daniel Banjo&comma; a security expert who reacts to attacks on <&sol;em><em>Lt&period; Gen&period; Tukur Buratai&comma; Nigeria Chief of Army Staff over a statement which ordinarily should be applauded&period; <&sol;em><em>The excerpts of his submissions are presented below<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a security expert&comma; Daniel Banjo admonishes Nigerians to focus on the merits of Chief of Army Staff&comma; Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai&&num;8217&semi;s submission and de emphasize the criticizism&period; &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;There is general misunderstanding of what insurgency and terrorism entail&period; There is likelihood of terrorism persisting in Nigeria for another 20 years&period; It only depends on the level of escalation and the appropriate responses by all stakeholders both civil and military authorities&period; Also by both local in international actors&period; Citizens responsibility is equally important and imperative&period; All must cooperate to contain the lingering insecurity&period; Let there be collective action and responsibility&&num;8221&semi;Lt&period; Gen&period; <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">TY Buratai<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>My Take&colon; Focus on Merits<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Above quote was all the COAS posited but unguided tongues started wagging&semi; chirping on issues they lack skill about&semi; bellowing on facts they are least knowledgeable on and totally do not understand&period; Gullible Nigerians&comma; normally swayed easily by falsehood and fake stories thus unable to decipher truths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What the COAS stated can be simply discernible by an unbiased and open hearted person as seeking the cooperation of all Nigerians for a quick end to the deadly activities of the remnants of a defeated but living coalition of varying Islamic Extremist operating within and outside our borders&period; The ISIL&sol;ISWAP&sol;BH multinational group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Again&comma; hear him&colon; &&num;8220&semi;There is likelihood of terrorism persisting in Nigeria for another 20 years&&num;8221&semi; LIKELIHOOD is the key word therein&comma; he didn&&num;8217&semi;t say that it would last for the years&period; Let us not forget that before he was appointed as COAS&comma; over two third land areas of three states were under the control of BHT with the whole of Borno less only a part of Maiduguri when the governor came on air visibly crying&period; The mission giving to him&comma; in May 2015&comma; to ensure the sovereignty of Nigeria was accomplished within months&period; By December of same year&comma; BHT claim on any landed part of the country became history&period; The monsters hydra head had been cut unfortunately&comma; we allowed the legs to live by harbouring and nurturing them&period; &&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi; implies the inhabitants of the locales&comma; who one way or the other fell into the ploy&comma; either through fear or coercion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Again&comma; he continued&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It only depends on the level of escalation and the appropriate responses by all stakeholders both civil and military authorities&period; Also by both local in international actors&period; Citizens responsibility is equally important and imperative&period; All must cooperate to contain the lingering insecurity&period; Let there be collective action and responsibility&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The turanshi above is not ambiguous&comma; it simply infer that the period of terrorism&&num;8217&semi;s presence in our country is dependent on its activities&comma; which can only escalate if we do not denounce it&comma; and the appropriate responses to its activities&period; He thenafter as he said three years back requested of us all to cooperate with the security agencies to contain the disgruntled elements&period; I AM STILL WONDERING WHAT IS NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD ABOUT HIS PRONOUNCEMENT&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Again&comma; he has stated the obvious taking into cognizance how terrorism had prevailed in some countries like Afghanistan&comma; Iraq&comma; Libya&comma; Kenya&comma; Ethiopia among others&period; In one of these countries&comma; terrorism had prevailed since 1979&period; Uptill date&comma; we still have instances of terrorism in France and UK&period; Domestic terrorism is a near daily affair in USA more so before the present POTUS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In summary&comma; our hardworking&comma; skillful and focused COAS was only warning us of the possibility of terrorism continuing in our beloved nation if we all do not see security as a collective responsibility&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Please let us all shine our eyes and report any suspicious person&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;