Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has advised
the federal government to recruit mercenaries to assist Nigerian troops in
fighting insurgency.
Speaking when he featured on
Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday, Galadima said
Nigeria has become extremely vulnerable and may witness more violent attacks if
the morale of the Nigerian military is not boosted.
He said Nigeria lost “a good
chance of seeking foreign help” when the president refused to attend the burial
of the late President Idris Deby of Chad.
“Nigeria has become extremely vulnerable and we lost a very good chance when our president refused to attend the burial of the Chadian strongman,” he said.
“Because there were world leaders
including France and it could have been a very big opportunity if the president
was there and discuss the security situation in both West and Central Africa.
As we know, the Chadian strong man was the super cop in this region. He has
soldiers stationed in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic to maintain peace.
“We lost this chance again
because two days ago, the military council in Chad said they will never
negotiate with bandits which means Chad will fall into civil war and you have
the proliferation of small arms coming into Nigeria. And Nigerian military is
overstretched; not enough manpower to tackle insecurity in the south-east,
north-east, north-central, it means that the north can be overrun anytime.
“For now, I sympathise with the
military because they are overstretched, under-armed and their morale is so
low, so all we need to do is to boost their morale
“Tribal wars in Chad will make small arms
filter into Nigeria and our military will be incapacitated. We have to recruit
mercenaries to assist the spirit and carriage of our own troops.”
BRUTE FORCE ALONE CANNOT WIN
THE WAR AGAINST INSURGENCY
Galadima added that it is no
longer advisable to use only brute force to tackle insecurity in the country.
“Our solution is simple and
difficult. You cannot use only brute force of human strength now anymore to
fight this war,” he said.
“I have said severally what you need is a
merger of intelligence and technology. Unless Nigeria does that, we are likely
to get into trouble.
“We are only attacking symptoms.
Why don’t we go into the root cause? The root cause is simply that very few
people corner Nigeria’s resources to themselves. An ordinary man has nothing to
do, to eat. All we need to do, we must attack the foundation of insecurity in
Nigeria, that is fighting corruption.”
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