The massacre being masterminded by bandits, insurgents, armed herdsmen, kidnappers among sundry despicable elements, contradicts the promise of security as a cardinal plank upon which President Muhammadu Buhari, and his All Progressives Congress rose to power in 2015.
The Nigeria Security Tracker, which compiles violent incidents fuelled by socio-economic and political tendencies, stated that 114 persons lost their lives in Borno State within this period. The Borno State is dovetailed by Katsina State on the list of fatalities, as 75 people were killed. One of the killing sprees that riled Nigerians, as well as the international community was Tuesday, June 9 killing of 81 persons in Faduma Kolomdi Village in Gubio Local Council of Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents, who posed as preachers.The Defence Headquarters in explaining the cause of the attack said the insurgent killed the locals as punishment for revealing their locations to the military.
For instance, in May 2019, the Nigerian Army alleged that some unnamed foreign powers, working in concert with their local collaborators were complicating the country’s security challenges, by sponsoring terrorism and banditry. “There are several political interests, politicians, in particular, are not happy with their defeat and therefore, trying to take revenge by sponsoring some of these criminal activities. There are strong political undertones, strong political influence,” he said.
Perhaps, it is this act of prevarication that prompted a former Chief of Defence Staff , Gen. Alani Akinrinade to, in February, declared that Nigeria’s security system is not working and that the Federal Government “should go to hell if it cannot provide security” for Nigerians, which it swore to protect.
Akinriade’s positions speak directly to the situation that is playing out in Katsina State, where thousands of residents are being displaced and even killed while the state governor, Aminu Bello Masari, last week admitted to failing to protect the residents and apologising to the residents for his government’s inability to protect them.
He added: “Our role is to complement efforts of the security agencies for which I believe we are doing nothing less than 90 percent in terms of whatever is expected of us, based on resources available to us.”
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