As terrorists, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and ‘gunmen’ persist in their nationwide rapine, Buhari ordered his troops to decisively stop the siege by December. This is just about three months away. Certainly, Buhari will have to do more than handing out unenforced orders to defeat the extremists.
Since 2009, Nigeria has been bedevilled by jihadism initiated by the Boko Haram Salafist sect. A report by the Centre for Democracy and Development, an NGO, said terrorists have slain about 60,000 persons in Northern Nigeria in the past 10 years. Beacon Consulting’s Nigerian Security Tracker calculated that the terrorists massacred 7,222 persons and kidnapped 3,823 others between January and July. The United Nations Migration Office counted 2 million internally displaced persons.
A national newspaper has mapped Buhari’s record of 29 directives to the security chiefs in the past three years to “crush the insurgents,” as of last August. None has delivered. Twice in one week, the latest order to crush the insurgents has been reported. At a joint news conference, the ministers of defence, information, interior and police affairs reiterated the presidential deadline.
Unfortunately, Buhari persists in denial. To Nigerians, he is overwhelmed and inept. Instead of acting like the Commander-in-Chief, he sermonises, giving ineffectual orders after each atrocity. After terrorists ambushed the Abuja-Kaduna train, killing and abducting passengers on March 28, Buhari directed the security agencies to “fish out” the perpetrators. Five months later, 23 of the victims remain in captivity.
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