Thank God Almighty who made it possible for the Sultan of Sokoto to visit Borno State for the first time since the start of the BokoHaram insurgency to condole with the Governor and the Shehu of Borno.
The Sultan’s visit indicated that maybe the northern traditional leaders are waking up from the long slumbers they have been in.
Since the beginning of the insurgency, one would have expected all stakeholders in the north in particular and Nigeria in general to have brainstormed many times to find a lasting solution to the insecurity bedeviling the region.
I thought those who are in high places whose children are schooling abroad really paid little or no attention to the problems they thought is affecting only the old Borno. I was proved wrong as they are not also worried about the ongoing insecurity in the North West, the seat of the Caliphate.
Anybody who thinks seriously about the insecurity bedeviling the north ought to know that the Nigerian security agencies don’t have enough equipment and men to occupy the entire areas where the terrorists are operating.
The job of the military is to retake the land occupied by the terrorists, which they did perfectly, but then to whom should they handover? The Nigerian Police Force is undermanned, under-equipped, undertrained. Given our size and population, we ought to have more than a million uniformed policemen and about half a million informants. Security cannot be the way our country is being run.
Dr. Saidu Samaila Msheliza.
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