Indeed, it is a trying time for the country and almost hellish living in it!
But beyond an inane expression of surprise at the turn of events, President Muhammadu Buhari must, for once, admit that he has a national security challenge in his hands, which requires him to man up to save the soul of Nigeria at this defining moment.
The bonfire of savagery and helplessness wafting across states took the president unawares, or so it seems. And in an uncharacteristic manner of modern governance, our president publicly expressed surprise according to reports. The element of surprise was a departure from the norm of finding scapegoats for in-house gross ineptitude. It is also at odds with earlier claims in 2016 that Boko Haram had been depleted or “technically defeated.
But one thing is certain: the groundswell of hostile remarks simply points to the fact that the current approach to the security problem is not working and in need of an urgent reform. This is not to undermine the efforts of the security agencies, who against the odds have kept walking the tight rope of combating insurgency in the North East. However, there comes a time in the life of every nation where critical self-assessment and evaluation are most germane.
Apparently, it is the domestication of our security challenges that has led to the Amotekun regional option in the South-west states – a simplified, all-inclusive self-help security model whose time has come. Notwithstanding the Federal Government’s earlier disassociation, it has validly shown how the people themselves want to solve their security problem from one constituency to another.
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