...Nigerian soldiers having to confront the enemy in the terror era with the modern-day equivalent of bows and arrows, while the enemy swaggers into military establishments with incredible confidence and equipment. The facts suggest differently: we are the ones with the air capacity; Boko Haram has none. We are the ones with airports and sea ports and highways. We are the ones with an alphabet soup of intelligence agencies, some of them so intelligent they are located within intelligence agencies; several of them within the military. We are the ones with big and powerful friends; Boko Haram has only sneaky supporters with whom it converses in whispers and walk around in the bushes with flashlights. We are the ones who slapped down a state of emergency so that Boko Haram would be rendered impotent and naked. How, then, did our misfortune happen? Why are they the ones growing stronger, killing our boys and overrunning our country? Why is Boko Haram benefitting from the emergency, marauding and masquerading, seizing our daughters, burning down our shrines and our palaces, sending us videos of their escapades? Why are we the ones sending our soldiers to be slaughtered, apparently unconcerned that they are out-gunned and out-manned? Why are we the ones running from battle, when we own the land; when we know the land and have never before fled from battle? LET US PROBE NIGERIAS DEFENCE SPENDING By SONALA OLUMHENSE
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:39:21 +0000
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