NIGERIA’S SECURITY ARCHITECTURE IS DIPLOMACY DEFICIENT!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 410. 20th June, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIA’S SECURITY ARCHITECTURE IS DIPLOMACY DEFICIENT!

Have the citizens ever wondered why the criminals were always one step ahead of Nigerian security agents; commit each crime with ease and gusto, hit critical/soft targets like professionals, disappear without trace, hide, undetected and forever unprosecuted? (
The answer is not far-fetched – they were always supplied with information with relevant data by personnel of government agencies, politicians – at both executive/legislative levels who disclose secret and confidential information carelessly and undiplomatically in order to gain cheap popularity and applause but inadvertently or deliberately disclose vital security secrets to terrorists, bandits and kidnappers!

Pre-Election POLICE Road Shows and Power display have never deterred electoral malpractices, thuggery, ballot-snatching, torch of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), strategic facilities or criminal attacks on its personnel! Statistics of personnel deployments at elections which should be kept to chest, were usually reeled out for public consumption and by extension to the CRIMINAL ELEMENTS who also have free access to social media!*Such wasted energies should have been diverted to preventive operations through plain-clothed agents, who would nip all criminal tendencies in the bud before, during and after elections!
Media trials by EFCC and DSS, when investigations were yet to commence or inconclusive had proved to be fatal to prosecution because suspects through their lawyers could challenge or puncture procedural methods to escape justice!
The Military are equally guilty of the same derelictions in the line of duty! They disclosed security information without much thought during Internal Security (IS) Operations, which criminals covet to maneuver and escape arrests or prosecution!
(4)It is very undiplomatic to publicly lament that the nation’s armed forces/police was OVERSTRETCHED when science has provided DRONES, CCTV CAMERAS, SATELLITE IMAGES to tackle insecurity without giving any sense of advantage to criminals! 

CAN ISWAP STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES?

The  Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), terrorists – which have joined forces with the remnants of a splinter group of Boko Haram CAN NEVER STAND THE FIRE POWER OF NIGERIA’S SECURITY FORCES  which have best international training, exposure, experience and expertise far above all its contemporaries in the West African sub region and by extension the whole of the Black African Continent!

The terrorist wars in Nigeria are NOT CONVENTIONAL BUT OF ESPIONAGE/ GUERILLA in nature and scope – which has created intricate challenges of logistics in view of its ubiquitous posture!
BUT a two-star retired Commander of “Operation Safe Haven”, has told the world this week that ISWAP had more sophisticated weapons and international exposure/funding than the Nigerian Armed Forces – a statement which received immediate condemnation from Senator Ali Ndume [Senate Chairman, Army], who was on the same interactive television programme!
The import of the retired General’s statement would have given ISWAP fresh encouragement to employ more guerilla tactics into the war! However, there was a divine intervention which set Boko Haram against their collaborators and resulted in great casualties among them during the same week! 

THE INTRANSIGENT WAR OF ATTRITION IN RETROSPECT!

Nigeria’s major security challenge since the year 2009 had been Boko Haram insurgency which metamorphosed into a hydra-headed monster comprising terrorists, bandits, gunmen, Fulani killer herdsmen, kidnappers, rapists etc, and still ravaging the entire landscape with unbridled effrontery in 2021!

AND having more or less “subdued” over 200 million population, hoisted their jihadist caliphate flags to assert authority, resorted to collecting taxes in several occupied local government areas especially in the   North East Geo-Political Zone, the dare-devils extended their tentacles to regional neighbors by launching attacks across the Lake Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Chad!

They were fiercely repelled by those nations – most especially – by Chad which late President, Idriss Deby Itno, a veteran soldier, who personally led the theatre of war to decimate the terrorists from the Chadian Territory in an operation code-named “Operation Wrath of Bomo”!

Reports had it that President Deby was furious when Boko Haram dealt the heaviest blow by killing 90 of his soldiers in one fell swoop and led his troops against them from 31st March 2020 – 9th April, 2020, a-ten-day offensive which took place at Kelkoua Bank and Magumeri (a local government in Northern Bornu State), where they destroyed the terrorists bunkers, killed about 1,000 of them, recovered cache of arms, arrested their top commander, and freed some Nigerian soldiers held captive!

President Deby later confirmed in a tweet that “no elements of Boko Haram is present in the Islands of Lake Chad” and in a meeting with the Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF), in Kaiga-Kindjinria of the Lake Chad Region, Nigeria’s Major General Ibrahim Manu Yusuf, he discussed security deployments on the Islands of Lake Chad.          

NOW THAT IDRISS DEBY IS DEAD! (1952-2021).

He assumed office in December 1990 through a coup-de-tat and ruled for 30 years but now that he is dead and Chad has officially disengaged from further military engagements in the Sahel area of the lake Chad Basin, NIGERIA HAS TO UP ITS GAME to bring the Boko Haram affront to victorious end not only in the Northern States but across the geographical zones of the country! 

COULD MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU HAVE DONE THE SAME?

Of course but for his age which according to him has created some limitations! “Oh, if only I could have been much younger, like when I was a Military Governor of Borno State, he lamented shortly after he assumed office in 2015?”
“I WISH I WAS PRESIDENT AT A YOUNGER AGE SAYS BUHARI!”
President Buhari said on 15th June, 2015, in Johannesburg, South Africa while meeting with the Nigerian Community in that nation that though he would have wished to be President at a much younger age, he would still give his best shot to move Nigeria forward!

He also said that he was determined to support the downtrodden and take poverty out of the State of Nigeria which has greater potentials than Somalia!

THE PRESIDENT WAS ALSO CULPABLE  IN DIPLOMACY DEFICIT AS WE PUBLISHED IN OUR 102nd EDITION OF 26TH JULY, 2015!

“At Seventy-two and a half years of age, President Muhammadu Buhari is comparatively young compared to contemporary astute world leaders, monarchs, heads of states, and politicians who had distinguished themselves in alertness of mind, comprehension, expression, at local, international and diplomatic assignments, considering his frugal life-style and his avowed socialist ideologies/policies, and should therefore perform creditably in view of the enormous task of rebuilding his country, Nigeria from its ashes!

Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe , 91 years; Queen Elizabeth of England 89; Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia, 88; Raul Castro of Cuba, 84; Paul Biya of the Cameroons, 82;  and Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine, 80, are still bona fide Heads of their various countries and are known to be performing State duties optimally.

“Can we safely conclude that the old-age “syndrome” has caught up with President Buhari or that he is suffering from memory loss, relapse or dysfunction in view of embarrassing gaffes during his recent official visit to the United States of America (USA).
During his “tete-a-tete” with President Barack Obama and other engagements of high-level talks, press conferences and even the meeting with US Nigerians Diaspora Organisation (NDO), the President had challenges of “accidental slips” which turned out to be diplomatically noticeable and very embarrassing!

“President Buhari published an Op-ed ( a personal opinion column), which was detrimental and contrary to diplomatic norm and international best practice in the Washington Post which turned out to be a social mistake and an indictment to his own administration, in which he disclosed his plans to defeat terrorism and the Boko Haram insurgency, including his intention to appoint ministers in September, 2015!
“*All of the above very sensitive and confidential information that should have been treated exclusively as closed-door high-level briefing for the Nigerian capable and efficient anti-crime, anti-graft/security agencies, bureaucrats and technocrats, were all divulged to the hostile outside world first hand, for reasons that are still baffling to the citizenry which was directly affected through the unsavoury, very unpalatable and shameful exposures!”

IT CAN NEVER BE TOO LATE TO CHART THE RIGHT COURSE”

The President should identify the MOLES among his cabinet and security agencies, remove them and appoint righteous citizens to work within the less than two years ahead! He should also be more DIPLOMATIC NOW, HAVING SPENT SIX YEARS IN OFFICE!  “A stitch in time saves nine!”

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