Attack On NDA Not By Bandits – REPORT

TERRORIST ATTACK ON NDA

With the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorism seemingly dying down within the North East, Nigerians should brace up for the likelihood that the North West could have more and more grow to be the brand new terror epicentre of the nation.

On July 19, 2021, an Alpha navy jet was shot down by the militant teams which authorities calls “bandits” on the Zamfara/Kaduna boundary space.

The infiltration of the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, fortress, killing of two middle-level officers and abduction of one other by yet one more group of armed hoodlums in faux navy uniforms on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, dropped at a brand new low the parlous security situation in the country.

The power of those “bandits” to convey down a navy plane and gun after Nigeria’s foremost tertiary navy academy sends a clear message that these are now not simply bandits. These are full-fledged Jihadist terror teams instantly focusing on the Federal Authorities’s navy may.

These teams, which began off as “cattle rustlers”, have amassed sufficient fortunes from their kidnapping and college abduction “companies” to morph into terror forces now hitting our armed forces at will.

That is additionally coming at a time the herdsmen militias killing and devastating rural communities in Southern Kaduna, Plateau, Benue and Taraba states have intensified their assaults, whereas hundreds of youth of questionable backgrounds are being shipped in trailer masses into all states within the South, to the alarm of the law-abiding residents.

Thousands and thousands of frightened Nigerians are left to surprise what is absolutely happening. What is occurring to our as soon as mighty Nigerian Armed Forces, which had been capable of preserve Nigeria one in the course of the Civil Conflict and produce peace again to war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone? Why is the as soon as dominant navy energy in West Africa now not capable of defend itself towards motorcycle-mounted armed hoodlums who’ve clearly grow to be a brand new frontier of terrorism?

Probably the most baffling a part of it’s that the safety of our nation has been nosediving in inverse proportion to the more and more humongous allocations to Defence. Official knowledge signifies that over N5trn of our annual budgets have been dedicated to the navy for our defence up to now six years. This excludes allocations to the Police and the safety businesses.

The assumption in lots of quarters is that we are able to solely efficiently defend our nation when all fingers are on deck. Something opposite to that can give approach to corruption, sabotage of the nationwide curiosity and the pursuit of tribal agendas, particularly by those that desire to monopolise our nation’s armed and safety forces.

And until acceptable steps are taken to forestall this, no quantity of budgetary spending or reshuffling of command construction will restore our safety. Government must return to the trail of rectitude and put again the safety of Nigeria within the fingers of ALL Nigerians