As the National
Security Adviser, you have to be grossly incompetent to not know how the Fulani
herdsmen (yes, they are herdsmen and they are Fulani) conduct their raids. If
you knew and just refused to do something about it, anything that would stop
these mindless, gory massacres of unarmed innocent Nigerians, then you are just
asinine or unpatriotic or both. And if you have laid everything out for your
boss, in this case, the President, and he does not have the political cojones
to do what he is required by law to do – that is, the protection of the lives
and properties of Nigerians, the President has failed.
It must amaze and confound anybody with a
scintilla of security awareness – how much more, national security awareness –
that there are people roaming around the entire country with illegal weapons,
even if they are not killing people with it. No serious security-conscious
person, how much more, one with statutory responsibility and obligation to
prevent such acquisition in the first place; and the confiscation of such
weapons and prosecution of culprits, will sleep well at night knowing that the
country is awash with such weapons. But what is even more galling is that the
culprits are killing people in dozens, almost daily, and everybody who is
getting paid to act is wringing their hands and praying to God to help them.
Come on!
