NDA INVASION: WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?
In the early hours of last Tuesday, we were hit by the news that some suspected armed bandits invaded the Nigeria Defence Academy. While there, two officers were reportedly killed & a major was abducted to only God knows where. What a national disgrace!
The Nigeria Defence Academy trains officer cadets for commissioning into the three services of Nigerian Armed Forces; the Army, the Navy and the Airforce. If such a security industry could easily be plunged and its officers killed and kidnapped, then no one is safe in this country.l
Yesterday, it were the students in some schools in same Kaduna and other states within the country especially, in the north region. Today, it is the Nigerian Defence Academy. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
This is a pointer to the fact that the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, is not doing enough to protect and preserve lives and properties which he did swore with the Holy Koran to do in 2015 and 2019, respectively.
Admitted, security is every body's business. You and I owe ourselves the duty to be security conscious at at all times. We need to be alert always and report suspicious persons and activities to security agencies and personnel. This we do! Truth is, it is either our security apparatuses are weak and not capable of wrestling our common enemies - Armed robbers, bandits, Boko Haram, herdsmen, name them or there is an unwillingness on the part of our officers to combat them.
Being that men of our Armed forces have also been victims of the insecurity in the land, one may be quick to pick the former, rather than the latter to be the major reason of the security lapse in our country.
Our men of the Armed Forces should be adequately empowered and equipped with the needed weapons to combat every form of terror and terrorists that have maimed, kidnapped and killed innocent citizens in our land.
Again, let us not take lightly, the words of Commodore Kunle Olawunmi who spoke on Wednesday, 25th August, 2021 on Channel TV Sunrise Programmme. He claimed that some sponsors of Boko Haram are in government. He went further to alleged that some people want to "islamise this country." For a man who spent over three decades in the military service to have spewed such allegations and with evidences of terror in separate parts of the country, yet there is silence from the Chief Security Officer of our country, one cannot not but be compelled to believe him. To corroborate this claim, Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has repeatedly cried out that his people are worse-hit and are at the receiving end of the herders-killing and kidnapping activities yet the President of the nation remains on mute mode.
Only recently, the President came out to champion the establishment of grazing reserves in 25 states of the country. This is not only callous but insensitive and an outright assault to the living and the dead in their ancestral lands.
The release, rehabilitation and reintegration of the so-called Boko Haram repentants send a signal about this government's unseriousness in combating the menance. No one talks about those they kidnapped, killed and displaced from their homes. What about the soldiers who died at the battle fronts while wrestling Boko Haram men and bandits? What is the plight of the families and next-of-kins they left behind? Why has the government refused to name, shame and convict those sponsors of terrorists in our land?
This is the realty: The war is far from being won. If nothing serious is done about the kidnappings and killings in our land, we may all be consumed. It is only a matter of time.
