Tatalo Alamu nation newspaper: Just in case we missed the import of recent developments, it is important to recap. Last week, the eagles finally landed. American troops established their formal presence at the southernmost tip of Chad, which is just as well as saying they arrived on the northernmost tip of Nigeria. It may be an arid no man’s land. But it is a defining moment for Nigeria and its traumatized nationhood. Nigeria is at the nadir of its fortunes both in terms of its military capacity to defend the territorial integrity of the nation and the state capacity to protect its citizens from falling into harm’s way. The nation-space is swarming with alien troops even as its airspace drones with state of the art surveillance planes. It amounts to the electronic undressing of a whole nation. America’s resolve to rescue the abducted Nigerian girls may well lead to a horrid denouement in the next few days or weeks, that is if something goes wrong with timing or if an already tense and desperate sect leadership is panicked into precipitate action. Once America sustains any casualty from what is supposed to be a rag tag force of religious renegades, it becomes a question of national pride and pulling back becomes very difficult indeed. It is called immigration control at source. The collapse of Nigeria would lead to a refugee crisis on an apocalyptic scale, with the human trail stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 15:22:56 +0000
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