{"id":25826,"date":"2014-04-28T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=25826"},"modified":"2014-04-28T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T10:30:15","slug":"security-operatives-in-nigeriastan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/security-operatives-in-nigeriastan\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Operatives In Nigeriastan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Michael Egbejumi-David<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Some of our brothers have turned the country upside down.\u00a0 <\/span>Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows.\u00a0 <\/span>Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.\u00a0 <\/span>If it\u2019s not Boko Haram today, then it\u2019s Herdsmen who also happen to be experts in directing helicopter drop-offs and are equally smooth in their use of semi-automatic weapons.\u00a0 <\/span>I suspect most of their sponsors have lost control of the boys.\u00a0 <\/span>The violence seems to have taken on a life of its own and co-ordinating its stoppage is proving damn near impossible at the moment.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019<\/span>s become<\/span>too <\/span>painful to <\/span>hear about the regular and<\/span> unnecessary loss of lives.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The abduction of the young girls from a secondary school in Borno and their unimaginable fate is simply too depressing.\u00a0 <\/span>We have finally confirmed our membership of that exclusive but ignoble club of mad primitive<\/span> countries where repression seem their only raison d’\u00eatre<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, look at the northeast. \u00a0<\/span>Boko Haram is close to shutting down education and social life there.\u00a0 <\/span>And you cannot find a decent party to attend there anymore; this was why Jonathan had to boogie-woogie in the relative comfort of the northwest last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Easter Sunday was a burst for most churches in Abuja.\u00a0 <\/span>Pentecostal pastors were especially unhappy.\u00a0 <\/span>Private jets and four-wheel drives on order would have to wait a little longer.\u00a0 <\/span>Continuing fuel shortage and the Nyanyan bomb blast have ensured that some motorist no longer go anywhere in their own vehicle.\u00a0 <\/span>Comprehensive vehicular insurance is a tricky business in Nigeria so cold rationalisation is setting in.\u00a0 <\/span>Folks are beginning to think that it would be altogether a bad thing to lose one\u2019s life and one\u2019s vehicle in a single incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the police are back on the streets.\u00a0 <\/span>Every other vehicle with tinted glass is pulled over, not to check its interior for safety reasons, but to demand to see the tinted-glass registration papers.\u00a0 <\/span>Inevitably, disappointment climbs onto the face of the officers when the correct document is produced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mistrust is rearing its ugly head again amongst neighbours.\u00a0 <\/span>Homeowners are beginning to re-interview their gatemen.\u00a0 <\/span>You don\u2019t even want to hear a motorcycle or a car backfiring on your street.\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone\u2019s nerve seems on edge.\u00a0 <\/span>Female education might become negatively impacted in the northeast in the short-term, and NYSC postings of female graduates to any part of that region at this time would seem a cruel and morbid assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n

And some miserable people are beginning to exploit this unhappy situation for their own gain.\u00a0 <\/span>T B Joshua recently pulled a tasteless stunt on TV when he paraded a man he claimed was a Boko Haramite sent from Adamawa State to Lagos to bomb his church.\u00a0 <\/span>Rather than hand the so called terrorist and his so called accomplices to the police, Joshua was parading the man in what he calls his synagogue and talking crap.\u00a0 <\/span>Clearly, the whole thing was stage-managed by this unconscionable faker.\u00a0 <\/span>Some people are so tacky, I swear. <\/span><\/p>\n

A nation without security is no serious nation.\u00a0 <\/span>A nation that cannot protect its own citizens especially within its own borders is not a serious country.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>But that is the bad news:<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very easy (and right) to sometimes blame the lacklustre nature of the current government.\u00a0 <\/span>Also, it is only human to think that our security operatives are not protecting us adequately enough \u2013 especially in light of past reports of Army personnel caught collaborating with the insurgents.\u00a0 <\/span>But it is not all bad news.\u00a0 <\/span>There abound a lot of good interceptions and foiling of potential violent or terror attacks by both security personnel and vigilant citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently in Wadata Market, Markurdi, a female \u2018beggar\u2019 was caught with a bomb under her wheelchair.\u00a0 <\/span>Also, a tattered looking fellow who looked like a scavenger was nabbed by security agents in Abuja.\u00a0 <\/span>He turned out to be a Boko Haramite on reconnaissance.\u00a0 <\/span>Another was caught with a bomb in his possession.\u00a0 <\/span>Yet another who looked like a destitute was intercepted with a bomb in a wheelbarrow near a mosque in Abuja just this week.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Kaduna, security operatives busted a group of Boko Haramites as they put finishing touches to their plan to attack a Police Station in <\/span>Kwanan Dangora.\u00a0 <\/span>Items recovered from the miscreants included improvised explosives devices, a machine gun, AK 47 riffles, fully charged magazines, 66 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunitions and a jerry can of petrol.\u00a0 <\/span>How much were these geniuses paid to carry out the aborted dastardly act?\u00a0 <\/span>All of N17,000 in total.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Lagos, security operatives reported quietly nabbing some 54 suspects in the last few months.\u00a0 <\/span>All suspects reportedly had some sort of explosives and AK 47 riffles stashed away when they were caught.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am sure that there are many more cases of terror prevention by some vigilant citizens and hardworking security operatives that go unreported for obvious security reasons.\u00a0 <\/span>We have to applaud those folks where they have excelled.\u00a0 <\/span>It could not be an easy job at all.\u00a0 <\/span>So, kudos.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, those little but significant victories weren\u2019t obtained without vigilance.\u00a0 <\/span>It is now incumbent on every person to be conscious of their immediate environment.\u00a0 <\/span>As citizens, it devolves on us to be extra vigilant at this time and to be very security-aware.\u00a0 <\/span>This situation won\u2019t last forever of course, but it is the hand we have been dealt by our fellow brothers.\u00a0 <\/span>We must do all we can legally to protect ourselves and our properties. <\/span><\/p>\n

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demdem@hotmail.co.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter: demdemdem1<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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