Protect Soldiers – Security Expect To Nigerian Gov’t

The macabre killings being perpetrated by alleged criminal elements in Nigeria have been extended to soldiers in the oil-rich Niger Delta State. Security is now raised to the third degree or red alert.

In recent horrific scenarios, Nigeria lost sixteen soldiers with the decapitated body of a military commander posted to the authorities as grim evidence of the opponent’s power.

According to the Nigerian Security Analyst, Dickson Osajie, monitored on the BBC by the Ghana Report, security ought not be pursued without a shield on the hunters. He proposed protection for regular security forces on the basis that their lives are precious to humans.

According to Dickson Osajie, regular forces would be on top of their job if private citizens volunteered to them information which would strengthen the pursuit of the murderous kooks in Nigerian society.

He said, the communities will be better protected if they open their eyes widely to happenings around them, and supply useful intelligence to the army and the police.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has rejected the ransom demand for the release of more than two hundred school children in captivity. This is a very dicey issue as ceding to such demands encourages kidnappers on this method. The latter has bragged they will kill their captives if their demands are ignored.

Seven years ago, Nigeria had the foretaste of what would become a long-running battle with kidnappers when Boko Haram terrorists took hundreds of girls into their custody in what attracted a vociferous hashtag “bring back the chibok girls.” Many of the girls became pregnant before the quiet but unexpected release by their assailants.

This was an episode in the flashpoint state of Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram. The despicable occurrence appears to be spreading to other parts of Nigeria, Delta State not the least.