Why new service chiefs will fail
OpenLife Nigeria reports that the appointment of new service chief by President Muhammadu Buhari may not be the needed solution to Nigeria’s insecurity status.
This is the fresh revelation by a clergy and security expert, Reverend Ladi Thompson, General Overseer, Living Waters Unlimited Church.
According to the clergy, Nigerian armed forces that are saddled with the responsibilities of securing the country are ill equipped to carry out such onerous task.
Among other factors, Thompson, an architect by profession, pointed out that the combined intelligence of Nigerian security agents, in comparison with insurgents, are miles apart.
He explained that insurgency is a global phenomenon orchestrated and managed by highly resourceful and intelligent individuals who are always ahead Nigerian’s security agents.
He noted that the global security menace, managed by the best intelligence in the world, has infiltrated Nigeria for good.
He stated that it is a new world form with clearly defined aims and objectives to subjugate everyone and rule the world through an asymmetrical format that puzzles the entire universe.
“Boko Haran is devoid of any rule of engagement. They have no uniform, no location, no standards and of course, no regiments associated with normal war,” he disclosed.
He therefore wondered how President Buhari, with the present military heads, intends to win the war against insurgency.
Thompson stressed further that government’s approach is wrong in its entirety saying no doctor prescribes drugs with proper examination of the patient.
He stated that the Nigerian security situation has not been properly diagnosed by experts so that appreciate remedies would be deployed given the deep knowledge of Boko Haram about the Nigerian territories.
“Security is existential issue. Is it okay for President Buhari to be appealing to Boko Harm insurgents who know Nigeria’s fault line like the back of their palms,” he asked rhetorically.
He noted that of recent, the insurgency and banditry have taken a new dimension whereby educational institutions and centres have become the latest fancy for kidnappers.
In all of this, Thompson maintained, government is caught off guard, running helter skelter whenever the damaged would have been done and kidnapped school children are already in the forest.
He stated that government would not more of intelligence to be able to check the menace.
“Nigerian Army must adjust in its chain of command. The essence of waiting endlessly for a go ahead command from a superior officer who may be miles away when soldiers locate enemies should be discontinued.
“Nigeria needs an intelligent army that can crack security codes as quickly as possible even before danger gets near,” he advised.
For a reasonable length of time, it has been hell in Nigeria. Undergraduates, kidnapped in Kaduna, were slain while the ransom are still being negotiated.
There have been more bloodbaths in Zamfara State claiming over 100 lives while over 50 villages were deserted in Niger after attacks by Boko Haram, who cheekily hoisted their dark flag in one of the communities.
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