By Kolawole Anthony
The first official covenant a leader makes with the people, on
the first day of official function is security of lives and property of the
citizenry. It is neither negotiable nor subject to compromise under any guise.
A law
abiding and peaceful nation is the panacea to uninhibited development and
prosperity. It is the primary essence of governance. And the capacity of the
Armed Forces anywhere in the world is gauged by its capacity and competencies
to assist the President to defray internal and external aggressions against its
country. But the military abdicated on this basic constitutional responsibility
under the last administration.
And the
consequences were quite grave. No Nigerian can agree less that Nigeria was on a
precarious cliff of total breakdown of law and order, by May 2015, when
President Muhammedu Buhari took the reins of office.
Nigeria was literally and
practically handcuffed by subsisting, budding, consuming and persistently
explosive acts of terrorism, local armed conflicts, militancy, violent
separatists’ agitations, ethno-religious conflagrations and other
insurrections. They did not only disturbingly assail and crippled Nigeria, but
had morphed into threats to regional insecurity threats.
Burdened
by an extremely weak Military, prior to the ascension of the Buhari Presidency,
Nigeria
replaced its peaceful soul with almost everyday violence, deaths and agonies
from terrorism. Dominantly at the home front, Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs)
obstinately pulled the cord of disunity and disintegration of Nigeria. It
went paranoid and regrettably unchallenged in the organized atrocious acts and
heinous crimes against Nigerians. But Buhari has smothered the fire.
