The question is how the insurgents have been able to acquire the sophisticated weapons they have used to sustain the fight for over 10 years, while Nigeria, a sovereign nation has been unable to do so? Nigeria Insecurity Security
to contain the escalating nation’s insecurity to international politics is defeatist and laughable. The President of the Senate is not telling the whole truth and this is unfortunate.
He explained that efforts to buy equipment for the Nigerian armed forces were usually frustrated by international politics with the requests taking longer than expected, adding that the country’s security system was currently overstretched and needed more resources. To start with, there is no time international politics will cease to give Nigeria leeway to purchase needed military equipment to prosecute the war at hand. War and politics go hand-in-hand, especially, in this era when coordinated insurgency groups operate globally. Nigeria should be versed in playing the attendant politics along. There is no need for crying over this fact.
The abduction of 276 girls from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok in April 2014 served to wake government from slumber. Even at that, many of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls are still unaccounted for and the same with Leah Sharibu, the lone Dapchi schoolgirl, a Christian held by the insurgents after her mates were released.
All the promises of the government to free the Northeast from the stranglehold of Boko Haram have been fruitless. Government, as a matter of fact, has failed Nigerians in this battle despite the huge budgetary outlay, which has not led to equipping the military adequately. In 2014, the immediate past Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, declared, unequivocally, that the terrorists were better armed than government forces fighting it.
Recently, Shettima’s successor, the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum, raised the same alarm over the lingering war with Boko Haram and the fact that it might not end soon. The Governor raised the alarm in Maiduguri while briefing the House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila and other members of the National Assembly who were on a security assessment mission in the state.
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