BOKO HARAM: A DISUNITED MILITARY AGAINST ITS PEOPLE By Segun Badmus In the last 15 years, how many times have the Nigerian military reported to the Commander in Chief militarily? This brings the issue of loyalty and fulfillment of the military handover notes of 1999. Did the military truly handed over in 1999? Just poking at if we have a democracy compliant military! To me the military has compromised the security of the nation on the alter of selfish motivations. We have seen a disorganized military formations not producing anything but violence against it own people. Our military has found employment in the art of sabotage against the State on a daily basis. We have a section of our military taking different orders. The sophistication of Boko Haram attacks lends credence to this assertion. We have a military that has sucked more than 40% our national budget in the last 15 years that produces nothing except reactionary tendencies.Who can account for the illegal shipments of arms, who can explain the movement of military supplies to, from and around flash points. Is this not a glaring evidence of the lost of control of governance through systemic failure of the policing and intelligence gathering capabilities of our security clusters? Where are our horizontal institutions of governance and how are they doing their job? Where are the immigration,customs, special forces,naval and air forces, sea captains and coastal guards? Is this not an indictment on the failure of these State Agencies and the mammoth presidency in particular? Boko Haram is a direct consequence of bad governance from top-down. Nigeria is so rich that he has to re-base its economy in 24 years and some of the officials of the present government have been dancing about the figures,yet the same nation is entrenched in abject poverty, hunger, deprivation and worst human development indexes. The level of ignorance and illiteracy is soul burning and heart wrecking when competitiveness and comparison with other nations of the world is evaluated. It is a collective smack on the very few who have held us captive in lieu of our colonial masters. Those who see Nigeria as their personal estate since the days of their youth and have refused to leave the stage with good intentions and achievements. But be aware there is limit to human endurance, our people are looking forward to a new dawn when things can be done right manner all in the interest of our unborn generation. Failure to do it right would be counter revolutionary. Fellow citizens join me in calling the military to be more accountable to civilian authority. We need a State of the Military Address to know where to begin the mop up. A probe into the spending of the Defense Budget would show us a link to where Boko Haram is coming from. The time to unshackle from that bondage is now. Thank you! Segun Badmus is a Good Governance Advocate, Thought Leader and currently the Interim Assistant Secretary APC- South African Chapter. Follow me on Twitter @segunbadmus
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:16:37 +0000
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