BEFORE BREAKFAST REACH YOU
Its easy to politically exploit fault lines of a highly ethnically divided nation like ours to make a center govt look incompetent, irrespective of who occupies it. One thing is certain, if Nigeria will break, it wont be under the watch of a Northerner!
For whatever reason, the North is more committed to Nigeria's indivisibilty.
Like it or not, they will use every kobo we could have used to build schools to recruit more soldiers to make sure no part secedes. This will also consolidate fears of who to trust with power in d south.
Nigerians are bantering about who shit for gutter, when we've been coded red, internationally on security, as the new epicenter of intercalating global terrorism. Ironically, the South-side isn't socio-structurally set up to absorb the war trauma the North have been dissipating.
On marauding herders, yorubas formed Amotekun. Amotekun is the most basic sign of technological backwardness, tactical bereftness, emotive and childish sense of invincibility bought from likes of Sunday Igboho who haven't seen a spitting M240 Machine Gun in deployment by bandits.
If FG wont do it, states impacted by marauding herders should have jumped at the idea of cattle registration. But yorubas are regaling over incantation chanting hunters compared to deploying technology. Anyway, it would have exposed your Govs who are federal allocation herdsmen.
Southward, Nigeria is ill-prepared for a spillover of what's happening in the North. North-East is a huge land mass shielding John Momoh's IPOB TV and people tweeting nonsense from Abuja and Lagos. Some are even wondering why soldiers cant fight harder as if they are cyborgs. 😀
Twitter has luxuries of comfort soldiers dont have in scorching sun. After civil war, d military have never been under this kind of civilian pressure to perform. Horrible things tweeted about Alpha Jet incident is enough instigation for yesterday's NAF blue on blue panic attack.
This is guerrilla warfare!
Its no longer about FG being incompetent and it doesnt exonerate the fact Buhari has Monguno, a compendium idiot as NSA. That's why we have a handful igneous heads here, shepetering about war tactics. PhD holders who cant "tamba" on their own properly.
No nation is adequately capable of fighting guerrilla wars embedded in its civil populace. Boko'haram terrorists are fighting to die because their victory is in dying. We are partly defeated because our soldiers consist of parents who fight to live, to return to their families.
While Kaduna is reeling is pain over the unbearable, recent students killing, we weaponized it, forgetting that this may invariably soon get to OAU, UNILAG, EKSU, FUTO, UNICAL, UNIBEN and there's no forbidding it because we retweet and endorse tweets of those whose desire it.
If u are still studying in Nigeria; if your parents are in d country; if u hope to grow a career or business to d point u will also have leverage to relocate like those stoking u with pictures in snow from abroad, be careful not to be used to give fuel to people carrying matches.
The least support we can give to soldiers in the battlefield is ensuring a blackout of terrorists from our media space. IPOB is now a full insurrection thriving on twitter penetration, and you are retweeting them? U go think say u dey do govt. Na breakfast wey go touch everybody!

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