These are old pictures of villages / settlements in Jere LG.
Housing = 0
Roads = 0
Electricity = 0
Schools = 0
Water = 0
Hospitals = 0
Security = 0
Development = 0
Quality of life = 0
Governance = 0
With a token and assurance of food Boko Haram will recruit hundreds to fight.
You can read this SMART survey report as well. The people are too vulnerable, too poor, too hungry that they can be easily radicalised. The President will take the blame for security issues but we have to understand that this war is now built on ideology and deprivation.
The landmass of Jere LG is about 869sqKm, Lagos metropolis is 1100sqkm. How many boots can be deployed on ground to cover this wide expanse of undeveloped area? Don't forget that there are bigger LG in Borno and Yobe to be patrolled as well.
This is the challenge in most parts of the north from the forests of Kaduna, Zamfara, Jigawa etc..
How do you secure the north by military intervention without concomitant socio economic development? Impossible
The war is set up to last for a long time.
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How many service chiefs will you change? The war is in its 10th year. It consumed a southern president and 2 sets of service chiefs, it's about to consume a Northern president with maybe 2 sets of service chiefs. When will you focus on the fundamental issues?
Munguno the NSA is from Borno
Buratai is from Borno
We have converted the military to policemen. They fight gun battles with Boko Haram, defend potential targets and institutions. Now they have to guard farms, markets and other soft targets.
Where is the police? Borno is 72,000sqkm almost the size of the south west with 5m people spread over villages, farms and forests. No police structure, no intelligence gathering, no infrastructure. The army had to construct roads in some places.
Why can't we have state police?
Lt. Gen Buratai is from the North
AVM Sadiq Abubakar is from the North
Majority of the theatre commanders are from the North.
Major military formations are from the North
New Airforce base in Katsina and Gombe.
5 additional aircrafts deployed to Katsina 4 months ago
7 different military operations in the North
Almost 2/3rd of the Nigerian Airforce combat budget spent in the North
Billions of Naira spent on military combat and operation spent in the north a huge chunk of military budget
Billions spent on humanitarian crises / IDP in the North
Isn't it crystal clear now that the problem is a fundamental one that force cannot eradicate. When will you all face the fact and address the issue of radicalism, Illiteracy, poverty, education and socio economic inequalities in the North.
Before and during the Endsars protests, I said it here that the Nigerian police formation is obsolete. It doesn't fit into the realities on ground. It is a reactive rather than a proactive force. How can this police system effectively respond to attacks in a place like Zamfara?
It is nearly impossible. Poor infrastructure, no access roads to the villages, no information, no intels over a 39,000sqkm landmass. They need a proactive police force within the communities. With the Gold in Zamfara, Matawalle can match the salaries of NYPD police officers..
But a faulty constitution will rather choose the death of his people than allow him make good use of his resources to protect his people.
At the end of the day, we will say Zamfara cannot fund state police, so they are stuck with this endless cycle.
Madam, they could have gone there with a rocket launcher, a T 72 battle tank or a howitzer. The man never denied they had live rounds, the word he constantly used was fired. I am sure you don't know what an AK-47 is. The gun in a semi Automatic mode can fire 40 rounds per minute
The bullet will penetrate a brick wall, virtually any target it hits. A bullet fired into a crowd can take out 4 persons. There would be flesh and bodies flying around. From 38 dead, you moved to 1 dead, now your point of argument has shifted to the types of ammo the army had..
Can you just defend you initial position? Why did you edit the video where some boys said they had guns? Why are you not interested in the type of gunshot wounds treated at the hospitals?
This app is gradually turning into a colony of buffoons. This one thinks sanctions are directed at certain individuals.
When the entire world sanctioned Nigeria under Abacha, the man was busy eating apples and having a nice time in Aso rock..
Your parents were the ones looking for sawdust to cook the next meal and hustling for sàbálò fish in the market. Up till today, the research grants at our universities that were stopped due to Abacha and June 12 crisis haven't been reinstated.
June 12 is part of the reasons why we have a shitty University research system. The sanctions will not affect anyone in Aso rock. Nigeria was sanctioned yet Abacha was looting like no man's business. The same countries that sanctioned Nigeria accepted the money he looted.
DICON owned by the Nigerian Army manufactures several weapons - MRAP, AK 47 / OBJ 006 riflrle used by the military, NR1 rifle, semi automatic pistol NP1 and the ammunition used. I don't know where the Nigerian police source their ammo from but for the army, usually it's DICON