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

Note!
Enugu is 82 Div, not 81 Div.
GSM
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On Fri, 4/29/16, 'H O' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Buhari Orders Crackdown on Fulani Cattle Raiders
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>, "Okey Iheduru" <okeyiheduru@gmail.com>, "USAAfrica Dialogue" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016, 8:00 AM

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 chronicles 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<okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:
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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