by Eze Eluchie,
At a time
when brave young Nigerians soldiers fighting terrorists in our North Eastern
flanks have featured in a video recording that has gone viral in Nigeria, begging
their Commander-in-Chief for food and appropriate enabling environment to
exist, talk less of being combat-ready and capable; and when within a space of
2 week Boko Haram terror elements killed several Nigerian soldiers including 4
Lieutenant Colonels; and when millions of dollars (some provided by foreign
donor governments and agencies meant for Internally Displaced Persons have been
diverted to spurious uses by high ranking government officials; Nigeria’s Chief
of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai announces that the Army has sent some of
its officers to Argentina for training, not to be better soldiers, but to learn
‘cattle rearing’@£#$ and that the Army intends to establish cattle grazing
facilities in all its Divisions@#??????
When it is
realized that the Federal Government, which coincidentally has a man who has a
cattle ranch as President, had not too long ago floated the idea of
appropriating lands across the Nigerian contraption to ease transit problems of
Fulani herdsmen and the same Federal Government had through one of its
Ministers, in addition embarked on the importation of some special specie of grass
from Argentina for the cows consumption (Perhaps in importing this special
grass, the Agriculture Minister had forgotten that it was not solely the grass
that made the Argentine cows so productive. Other factors which this ‘extremely
hyper intelligent’ Nigerian government should likewise have included in its
import list from Argentina must include Argentine water, Argentine climate, and
of course Argentine soil where the cows will trod on); one begins to appreciate
the true direction of the Army Chief’s drift towards creating a specialized Cow
Herding Brigade or Unit in the Army.
General
Buratai, this your Army Cattle Grazing fields hogwash is merely another ruse to
appropriate lands owned by others for cattle grazing! This regime has been more
about Cows! Cows!! And Cows!!! Without giving a hoot about the people!
Nigerians appreciate
the sacrifices of the dedicated soldiers who are doing their very best, even in
the absence of necessary equipment's to save the society from terrorists and
other criminal elements. But this idea of training soldiers as cattle herdsmen is far, far, far beneath the rank of soldiering or what some of those who
volunteered to join the Nigerian Army thought the noble duties of a soldier entails.
What becomes of a soldier ordered/deployed by his commanding officer to the 'Cattle Rearing Brigade of the Nigerian Army who has conscientious objections to such service? Will he be disciplined, subjected to court martial proceedings and or dismissed from service?
What becomes of a soldier ordered/deployed by his commanding officer to the 'Cattle Rearing Brigade of the Nigerian Army who has conscientious objections to such service? Will he be disciplined, subjected to court martial proceedings and or dismissed from service?
Restructuring
and Renegotiating the Nigerian contraption will allow for those who prioritize
cows over human beings to be at liberty to do what they feel is best in their
own context without dragging other peoples down their self-chosen paths.
What mortal sin
could Nigeria and Nigerians have committed to deserve this Buhari fellow and
his ineptly clueless bunch?
Picture: A ‘military
cow’ – the likely outcome of Nigeria’s efforts to create cattle ranches at all
its Divisions.
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