Fw: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Buhari Orders Crackdown on Fulani Cattle Raiders

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On Fri, 29 Apr, 2016 at 8:00, H O

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It is a fact of life that excessive hatred of and aversion for a thing often purblind people to truth. There are some among our compatriots who, like death chroniclers and vultures, would never see or expect any good thing from Buhari's administration. Our task as always is to provide light to illuminate the dark recesses of our extremely challenging polity

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On Fri, 29 Apr, 2016 at 0:15, Okey Iheduru

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Let's be careful in reading/interpreting these news reports. The Nigerian Army (and the rest of the military) do not engage in "providing aid to civil authority" in internal security operations without "express" or written orders from the Commander-in-Chief. Has anyone seen or heard of Pres. Buhari issuing such orders? Mere hortatory statements are, well, just that, and the officers and men know that. Recall that the GOC 81 Div in Enugu, a member of the Enugu State Security Council (that meets at least once a month with the Governor), reportedly referred the Enugu State Governor to Aso Villa when the Governor called on the GOC to go crack down on the herdsmen-terrorists. Understandably, the Nigerian Army is NOT the police. Yet, the same GOC 81 Div did not wait for "express" orders from Aso Villa to mobilize his men to mow down unarmed members of IPOB at Aba and other areas of the Southeast Zone. Remember the "stern warnings" issued by the GOCs back in November 2015?

In a lecture I gave to Course 21 (the current GOC 81 Div was a Participant/student) at the National Defense College, Abuja in 2013 entitled "Non-Military Security Threats in Nigeria," I warned that the biggest threat to Nigeria's security and unity was the herdsmen-terrorists--at the time the flare-ups were only occurring in southern Kaduna, Nasarawa and parts of Benue State. Boko Haram, the military/security agencies would eventually learn to contain or even defeat, given all the "military transformations" that have been undertaken by an essentially 19th-century conventional, "occupation" army in response to the evolving Fourth Generation war or "military operations other than war" (MOTOW). On the other hand, none of our largely SUSPECT and sometimes IMPARTIAL military/security forces has the training (tactical, operational, systems-level) or the dispassionate professionalism--let alone the "free hand"--to deal with the menace of herdsmen-terrorists. The herdsmen and their terrorist wing, who own neither the cows nor the guns they wield with such alacrity and impunity, are in every village (including Soyinka's den); and we need their cows/meat for our "Owa Mbe" or "Ofala," and funerals. Moreover, their kith and kin are some of the "Maiguards" looking after the homes and property of pretty much every Big Man, as well as an increasing number of Okada riders and "Mai Ruwa" in the Southeast and Southwest. 

More importantly, the reactions and/or responses from some members of Course 21 Participants and the faculty/Directing Staff (some of whom are now GOCs and flag officers) on the day of the lecture back in 2013 did not leave me with much hope that our political and security leaders are capable of comprehending the severity of this latest social cohesion challenge to our already unequal and incomplete citizenship, let alone resolving it. Ask our compatriots in Zangon-Kataf and Jos how much weight they give to pious mouthings these days. My fear now is that we're not that far off from a full-scale self-help system in a situation where it seems the weak get what deserve and the strong do what they like. I just re-read "The Melean Dialogue" in Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars. 

Sorry to sound so despondent, but 

Peace as always!

Okey

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:23 PM, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Nigeria's Buhari orders crackdown on Fulani cattle raiders - BBC News

Nigeria's Buhari orders crackdown on Fulani cattle raiders - BBC News By BBC News Nigeria's president orders the security forces to crack down on cattle raiders accused of killing hundreds o...

 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429

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