by Eze Eluchie
Listening to
its leadership and observing its activities, one is convinced that if the characters behind the #BringBackOurGirls gang were American
citizens, they would have set up a #BringBackOurTwinTowers ensemble soon after
the dastardly 9-11 terrorist attacks, rallying to castigate the President George Bush presidency in the
United States for inability to prevent or stop or rescue/resuscitate the
victims of 9-11.
Matters get
further complicated for the Nigerian Government with some civil society
elements and a government agency (Human Right Commission) ever ready to lampoon
Security agencies for efforts at tackling terror; this again would have been
akin to Human Right Watch, Amnesty International and the US State Departments Annual
Human Right Report on the United States equally castigating the US security forces
and personnel for their robust war on terror, which often times led to rights
violations of the rights of terrorists or suspected terrorists.
The Government
and peoples of Nigeria are thus trapped in a ‘heads-we-lose-tails-they-win’
scenario with our war against terror.
The presence
of vociferous, obstructionist and anarchist opposition who often times express
tacit and clear support for terror in Nigeria, serve to compound the woes of
our domestic authorities efforts at tackling terror. This again is comparable
to a situation where the United States’ Democratic Party, which was in
opposition when 9-11 occurred, to soon after the terrorists attacks on the
United States, take upon itself the role of frustrating any and all State
efforts to confront terror, inclusive of obstructing requests for funds to
better equip the Security agencies.
The oddities
highlighted in the Nigerian polity after the country came under sustained
terror attacks by BH and like-minded groups, is not totally unexpected of a
contraption founded on very faulty foundations. The contraption is perceived by
most as a cow to be milked, and very few bother about such mundane matters as sustainability,
propriety and patriotism.
The call for
a holistic restructuring and renegotiation of the contraption is factored on
the need to spare ourselves and particularly the West African sub-region, and
beyond, of the dire consequences of our continuing folly – we do not have
forever to do the needful.
Picture: Scene of a BH terror attack in northern Nigeria
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