With the return of democracy — 21 years and counting — and a stress on more accountability, the scorned “bloody civilians” of yore are busy having own back on the “useless generals”, in the Boko Haram North East front.
“After all,” quipped the roguish Brother Jero, ”it’s the fashion these days to be a desk general!” That was Jero’s closing wit in the play, Jero’s Metamorphosis , by Prof. Wole Soyinka.
In truth, the security situation is dire. But that doesn’t automatically equate it is worse, compared with the past. Still, that won’t gather much traction with an emotive response — and understandably so, for man is, extremely so, a pain-avoiding animal. That is what the media should do in troubled times: shed more light on issues for better public understanding; rather than join the emotive orchestra, yelping and swearing, yet proffering no reasoned solution to the roaring problems.
On Boko Haram qua Boko Haram, even Abubakar Shekau, with his most fanatical terrorists, would admit it’s well past glory days; when a hitherto ragtag terror cadre worsted Nigerian troops, grabbed territories, and hoisted, with panache, Islamist flags. Indeed, that TM show made a glib reference to the Chadian late 2019 exploits against Boko Haram, that made Abukabar Shekau cry; suggesting Nigeria failed to finish off the job.
That is hardly a crime in a democracy. But it costs the troops dearly in morale; and helps prolong the terror war, which ironically the fretting people people want ended.
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