By Ochereome Nnanna
For me, the
legacy of the late President Muhammadu Buhari remains the most profound
failure of Nigerian leadership. It was a tenure defined by a litany of
institutional abuses. Chief among these was Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC).
Initiated almost as soon as he touched the levers of power in May 2015 and
fully activated by September 2016, it was a betrayal of his primary campaign
promise. Instead of the total military defeat of Boko Haram he had pledged, he
gave us an abomination: a programme designed to “rehabilitate and reintegrate”
so-called repentant jihadists back into the very society they had spent almost
a decade trying to incinerate.
