Boko Haram: Why Nigeria Urgently Needs To Remove Its President On May 8th, 2013, NewsRescue media after an exhaustive meeting of our Intelligence team and invited experts released a publication, “Nigeria At War“; in this article, we strongly recommended the urgent need for a State of Emergency, SoE to be declared by the Nigerian government and for a full draft of troops to the terror plagued northeast. We stand by this recommendation of May 2013 which prompted the Nigerian President to cut short his trip to the South of Africa and rush home to deliberate and announce the SoE and drafting of battalions to the north. We were accused by Nigerian leaders at the time of being a “foreign group that did not like Nigeria,” for initiating and pushing the SoE agenda. A properly managed SoE would have ended Boko Haram terror once and for all by September of 2013; however when the SoE was achieving success and the Nigerian army led by General Ihejirika had pushed Boko Haram who had by the time occupied over 20 Local governments in Borno, back into Sambisa, the Chief of Defense suddenly dismantled the Joint Task Force, disconnected the valuable military collaboration with the CJTF and replaced all with a defunct Army division. Boko Haram regrouped in Sambisa and under protection of Jonathan who purposefully avoided and failed to attack Sambisa for all excuses including under pretense of not harming the 234 abducted Chibok girls; came out to conquer entire chunks of Nigeria. However in review of the current security situation, not only does the SoE now need to be discarded, but also as long as Goodluck Jonathan remains President, the Nigerian military needs now to be fully pulled out of the northeast. In summary, Jonathan mismanaged the SoE. The drafted troops, due to poor and corrupt leadership were so sabotaged that they were incapable of abating the terror and rather served as a source of deadly ammunition and support for the terrorists. In recognition of this, the heads of army including former accused Chief of Defense, Azubuike Ihejirika are now rightly accused of being sponsors of Boko Haram. The declaration of a unilateral cessation of fire by the Jonathan administration and the new military chiefs is a continuation of a series of steps of clueless interpretation and reckless mismanagement of the terror crises. President Jonathan’s dependence and dealings with accused Boko Haram sponsor, Ali Modu Sheriff and the Boko Haram linked President of Chad also known to be a top sponsor of the group, further presents a dire situation which delivers death and territorial loss to Nigeria; a nation now divided with terrorists comfortably ruling over swaths of territory and millions of citizens.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:01:37 +0000
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