JUST SO YOU KNOW
IF you are wondering why I make no bones about saying that the concerned govts should secure the release of the abducted undergraduates through the payment of ransoms, it is because we failed to prepare and therefore allowed kidnapping to spiral out of control
IF you are wondering why I make no bones about saying that the concerned govts should secure the release of the abducted undergraduates through the payment of ransoms, it is because we failed to prepare and therefore allowed kidnapping to spiral out of control
Inputs beget outcomes. The other day I made it clear to compatriots that during General Ihejirika's stint as COAS, he truncated the national security nuisance that was guerrilla warfare.
How so? Task-specific training on an unequalled scale. Here's a snapshot of what I mean..
How so? Task-specific training on an unequalled scale. Here's a snapshot of what I mean..
Ihejirika embarked on what I described in my blog posts then as a "Basic CTCOIN Proficiency Training Programme". He not only undertook same on an "army only" basis but also trained thousands of cops and civil defenders. Diligence does beget outcomes.
What began with hundreds of troops being put through weeks-long courses at Jaji and Kachia soon went hyper with the establishment of NATRAC at Kontagora. Check this out for scale..
At NATRAC, Kontagora: Batch 13 graduated 1,600 soldiers and it was not nearly a record turnover
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BATCH 6 at NATRAC had 1,952 soldiers retrained in basic CTCOIN proficiency - IED identification, ambush defeat, fighting in built-up areas, house clearing etc
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That is just a snapshot of the retraining + skills conferment programmes which Ihejirika put over 10,000 troops through in double quick time.He achieved outcomes.
Remind me,have either the police or SSS retrained 1,000 personnel for anti-kidnapping field ops in the past decade?
Remind me,have either the police or SSS retrained 1,000 personnel for anti-kidnapping field ops in the past decade?
And you all expect hapless undergraduates to be sent to a premature Golgotha because of the glaring failings of the Nigerian State? You would have your own sibling or child used as a guinea pig?
Somebody tell me something else..
Somebody tell me something else..
Do-nothing folks polarise the ENTIRE country in their cutthroat scheming and intrigue over security sector appointments yet the basic level of readiness and knowhow continues to elude us YET you expect unfortunate innocents to bear the brunt on account of post-damage strategy?
Where were the strategists when preparations for pre-emptive action ought to have been taken? Did you just confirm how much Ihejirika had to do just to rise above urban guerrilla warfare? He dropped from Saturn or was flesh and blood like the rest of us?
People..PLEASE.
People..PLEASE.
Lemme even cite a policing-related intervention in the realm of handling explosives so you see clearly that inputs beget outcomes. The Police EOD are easily the most quietly dynamic yet outstanding branch of that service
Police EOD..just OUTSTANDING from the beginning and even tomorrow - unheard, unseen, most unobtrusive, most disciplined, most competent, most professional and the most people-friendly arm of the NPF bar NONE.
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ERRATUM
*national security nuisance that was URBAN guerrilla warfare*
*national security nuisance that was URBAN guerrilla warfare*
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