On security challenges in Nigeria
Terrorism is an enduring situation worldwide. In Nigeria, this is causing a lot pains to the people and the armed forces. The extreme ideology of the Boko-Haram sect and what is happening in the North is very disturbing. Northern leaders such as the late Sarduana of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Mallam Aminu Kano; the late Major Gen Joseph Garba; and many others who labored to make the North what it is today will never forgive the sect for what they have turned the region into and I know that average northerners are good people and are not in support of what they are doing. I am however pleased with what President Jonathan is doing to curtail the insurgency and the Niger Delta militants and needs the support of all Nigerians.
On security challenges, the country needs to create special branches in the armed forces, that is, the army, navy and air force that would be given specialized training on how to handle terrorism; they should be able to fight on land, sea and in the desert. This special force should be deployed to the Gulf of Guinea to maintain peace in the area.
There should be combined operations involving the army, navy and the air force to curtail the activities of Boko Haram; it should not be left in the hands of the police or army alone.
Stability of operations
This follows after combined operations of the military. They must not leave the scene of operations immediately, they should stay to stabilize operations and return normalcy to the area.
Border patrol
A division that is made up of men and officers from all branches of the armed forces should be created to join the Customs, Immigration and police to patrol our porous borders with Cameroun, Chad, Niger, etc . They should effectively man the border points because this is where the Boko Haram people leave for Mali and Mauritanian for training. The Nigerian government should be prepared to spend money on technology, censors and radars should be mounted at sensitive border points to monitor what is going on.
The Federal Government can establish three central control divisions to man Nigerian/Cameroun, Nigerian/Niger, and Nigerian/Chad borders with radar installed to monitor the movements of people. The radar will send information to the central divisions and place those on patrol at alert. This is what the Boko-Haram people do and they move with ease in and out of the country to train in Mali and other countries. There is also the need to install underground sensors along the borders with our neighbours that will send signals to the central control system which, in turn, calls for air support in cases of emergency. The security agencies should train dogs to sniff persons and cars coming into the country because terrorism takes time to plan. It is not done overnight.
They select targets to be attacked, they have good intelligence network and so, to counter them, you must have an intelligence gathering system that is superior to their own.
How to defeat terrorism
Government should allocate more funds for the education of youths in the North; by so doing terrorists would not be able to brainwash or indoctrinate them on their cause. Northern youths should be able to compete with their southern counterparts in every field of human endeavours once they get the right education.
Nigeria should subscribe to the African Military High Command to make her strong in the continent; for training, special assistance, among others.
All Nigerians get national identity cards entered into a national data base. You must have records of people living in the country including foreigners.
The Federal Government should erect walls along our borders with our neighbours as the United States government did along its Mexican borders when it became clear that there were illegal aliens entering the country through its borders with Mexico.
The Federal Government should dialogue with religious leaders in the North especially Imams on the dangers of allowing Boko-Haram to keep weapons in the mosques. We discovered this in Iraq and we talked with them about the dangers of allowing them to do so.
The Boko-Haram sect and the Niger Delta militants should dialogue and embrace because there is no nation on earth that can survive two wars. Nigerians should give peace a chance.
Crisis in the Niger Delta and oil theft
It is regrettable that Nigeria reportedly lost about 191 Billion U.S. dollars to oil theft and vandalization. I commended the Joint Military Task Force set up by the government to tackle the issue. They should concentrate more efforts in tackling the issue and they should be properly equipped to provide security to Nigerians living in the region. The militants should embrace peace.
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ReplyDeleteFine talk my brother serving in a refined country military. Your brothers and sisters serving in the Nigerian military are million years behind you when it comes to being equipped, welfare etc. Our borders are porous, yes, and walls could be built along the borders you mentioned, the children of northern origin are not well educated, yes you are right, so they are easy prey to terror groups to brainwash, Nigeria can install radars, satellites and what have you?, to monitor its porous borders - all these you mentioned are feasible projects, but ONLY for a corrupt-free society. Nigerian leaders will rather prefer to line their pockets with monies that would have been channeled to such security projects. You will find out that, should you and your fellow Nigerians serving out there, decide to return to assist your home country with all the experience you have, you can only expect frustrations due to the vision-less politicians we have in this country. However, thank you Major for the time you have taken to express yourself to this your down-trodden Nation.
ReplyDeleteNice clue
ReplyDeleteI think when they are done stealing and looting money they will listen to you,don't be surprised that some members of the house of assembly will still vote for the scrapping out of the Nigerian Police.9ja matter too strong,we all have to pray hard for this country cos we are blessed with all and still lack..Nigeria is a rich country still counted among the poorest nation
ReplyDeleteTrue talk @Yany, our POLITICIANS/if not all of Us, are so CURRUPT that they/we will prefer the FUNDS 4 SECURITY in their/our POCKETS.
ReplyDelete"The NIGERIAN FACTOR"
Always me-EL-MATOSKY.
the FG only care about how to get money to their bank they don't care about all this thing you're saying
ReplyDeleteNice,we knw all of those will work. But after all said n done n supposing we even implement to d letter all d Major's recommendations,will corruption n corrupt people allow it work? Or wat about runnin costs n others?
ReplyDeletethis should not have been published because most of our leaders are god father of the boko haram and Niger-Deta militants. with these information, i bet you, those guys must have been informed and started their own plans to rule it out from the house of assembly and it will give those idiot boko haram and the militants to act fast.
ReplyDeletethe program is very good if fish is not kept with the cat to monitor. see major, these leaders had graduated from stealing Naira to Dollars and before you know, Pounds sterling is their target. please if you have your life to live, dont come home because they will set you up and kill you. we Nigerian knows what Im talking about.
my grand father said YOUTH ARE THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW and that baba is LATE now. my father is also 94years now he said the same thing, we will tell it to our unborn children again. it it real that youth are the leaders of tomorrow but the leaders there does not want the youth to grow..... i am short of words. GOD BLESS NIGERIA IF THE LEADERS WILL ALLOW GOD TO BLESS HER!
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ReplyDeletelet them keep amassing wealth.
Suddenly! they shall leave it and
it shall be spent by those who knew them not.
the word of God is True and Sure.
Last time i checked d U.S still don't have an answer to d 'insider killings' carried out by Taliban infiltrator n they r looking 4 d easiest n fastest escape route 4rm Afghanistan by pulling out as fast as possible.Serving in d U.S military doesn't make u a better soldier tactically n militarily.
ReplyDeleteThe Officer has a very good point. If Nigeria intends to keep a handle on the sect, we need to train our armed forces. We need to invest in our military. They are lacking in so many areas, it's embarassing.
DeleteLet's tell ourselves d truth. The average Nigerian is corrupt. Most of us critisizing everything today in the govt.will do worse if given d opportunity. We should start by rejecting favours from corrupt pple,we should openly detest them thereby instilling guilt in them. Rather u see Nigerians giving tremendous respect & consideration to accredited political criminals & total disregard to those who refuse to get involved in corruption. Hypocrisy is our major problem.
ReplyDeleteLet's tell ourselves d truth. The average Nigerian is corrupt. Most of us critisizing everything today in the govt.will do worse if given d opportunity. We should start by rejecting favours from corrupt pple,we should openly detest them thereby instilling guilt in them. Rather u see Nigerians giving tremendous respect & consideration to accredited political criminals & total disregard to those who refuse to get involved in corruption. Hypocrisy is our major problem.
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