A Niger State security expert, and the Zonal Chairman of Human Rights Advocacy Civil Society of Nigeria, Abdullahi Jabi, in an interview with The correspondent, spoke on the issue of insecurity, as he also noted that interest groups, and personalities were fanning the embers of the country’s disintegration....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
When told that the Nigerian military has been accused of not doing enough to address the issue of insecurity in the country, Jabi acknowledged that the military has been performing admirably and continues to do its best.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!However, he pointed out that the military has been shortchanged due to poor payment of salaries and allowances, inadequate training, and insufficient modernization of their equipment to address 21st-century challenges.
Despite these setbacks, he affirmed that the military has never failed Nigeria and will not fail it, even though their numbers have been significantly reduced because they are frequently overextended with various police duties.
Further talking, he said, “If accusation is the order of the day, they must compromise because what is due to them is not given to them. Why won’t they help themselves since the reality is no longer realisable? What is the monthly take-home of Generals?
Their money is just N1.2m, how do you compare that with an illiterate Senator, or a House of Representatives member that is collecting times 30 of that amount for being in the National Assembly as a lawmaker. How justifiable is it?”
He said that the person was risking his life for the country without any compensation, social security, or support in terms of housing, health, education for their children, or assistance for their wives after their death. He questioned what kind of country it was and why Libya had been the best before the fall of Gaddafi.
He explained that it was because Gaddafi ensured those necessities were in place for both the armed forces and the people, using the country’s oil wealth for its citizens. He added that if it were not for foreign intervention—driven by their usual wickedness and desire to take resources from Africa—things might have been different.
He noted that while the first phase of colonialism had ended, the superpowers were now engaging in neocolonialism focused on economic exploitation in Africa, and that Nigeria was the next country targeted.
