More transparency in security architecture

It is gratifying to know that 1,000 terrorists have been prosecuted by the Nigerian military and up to 500 were jailed.

However, the prosecution must have taken years of judicial processes but the military kept it under wraps for some antiquated military secrecy which is not in consonance with modern global practice.

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Despite public outcry that government is over pampering and indulging the terrorists, the military did not deem it fit to update the public.

This adherence to non-disclosure of judicial process is archaic under democracy.

Nigerians have the right to know the identities of the jailed terrorists so that the society could be acquainted with their perfidious profile and monitor their activities after their jail term.

It will also help the war against insurgency to narrow down the prosecution to the sponsors of these heinous crime. Until this is achieved the military would be beating a dead horse.

If the culprits are secretly jailed without being exposed and deradicalised, the society is still vulnerable to their blood-thirsty ideologies.

The identities of Trump’s misguided insurrectionists in the US are all over the country’s media, why should criminal jurisprudence in Nigeria be given such opaque aberration.

Bukola Ajosola can be reached on 08033155791