{"id":98115,"date":"2022-08-14T20:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98115"},"modified":"2022-08-14T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T19:56:25","slug":"its-illegal-to-employ-foreign-mercenaries-to-fight-terrorism-jemibewon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/its-illegal-to-employ-foreign-mercenaries-to-fight-terrorism-jemibewon\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s illegal to employ foreign mercenaries to fight terrorism &#8211; Jemibewon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A former military officer, Maj. Gen. David Jemibewon (retd.), has condemned the attacks on military bases in the country, noting that the attacks had reached a new dimension.<\/p>\n<p>Jemibewon urged the Nigerian elite to \u201ctalk to themselves\u201d before the matter got out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Army officer, who served as a military governor of the defunct Western Region, in a chat with news men, said, \u201cI think we should address ourselves because this matter is getting out of hand. The military has to assure Nigerians that they are prepared to handle it (terrorism) and put a stop to it as quickly as possible before civilians get unnecessarily worried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack on these military bases is a new dimension and they must act quickly and put a stop to it. Whether or not the military is overstretched should not be the cause of all these attacks on their bases. The military is an establishment and if anything is going wrong within the establishment, I am sure it will not be happening for the first time. Do we have the means of putting it under control? I think there will be other reasons for these attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that \u201ccertain people, probably, have some grounds to get unhappy (because of the situation in the country) but are going about it through wrong methods to call the attention of the authorities to it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether foreign mercenaries should be involved in the fight against these rampaging terrorists, Jemibewon said, \u201cI personally don\u2019t support the idea of emphasising so strongly that we should go and employ mercenaries. They are illegal and have put upon themselves military operations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cThey are illegal. Why should a legitimate government go out for illegality on a world scene? You cannot go and bring people whose mission or nature of the operation is mercenary. It is against direct confrontation with constituted authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t join those who play with a group of mercenaries in a country with a large and competent population. If we go out to employ unprofessional ways of doing things, we are not helping world peace. Instead, we should go into more recruitment and face the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former military officer, Maj. Gen. David Jemibewon (retd.), has condemned the attacks on military bases in the country, noting that the attacks had reached a new dimension. 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