NDA Attack: An Indicator of a Failing State – Seyi Oyetunbi | GOVERNMEND
Bandits are fast rendering Nigeria ungovernable, its recent attack only points to the fact that they’re fighting with determination to conquer Nigeria and impose their style of government, probably more like what we have in Afghanistan today where Talibans sent the legitimate government packing after the invasion of Kabul, the major city in Afghan.
There’s likely not to be a state if a state fails to protect lives and properties within and in some cases beyond its territories. Nigeria is failing with a scary rapidity. Insecurity has distracted alot of people from demanding humanitarian duties of the government for the fact that people no longer sleep with their eyes closed. It’s near impossible to think of any advance human needs when living is by chance and lives are at high risk.
The Nigerian Defence Academy was attacked by bandits, many armed soldiers were injured in what seemed like gun duels, two of the soldiers killed while a commander was abducted. This is the worse we can have before the dying Nigeria is buried. Surprisingly, however, the Presidency is not troubled by the ugliest development any country can witness structurally and defensively.
The strick on the Defence Academy has kept the entire world abreast over the porosity and vulnerability of Nigeria as a state and its defence as an intra structure. It started just like this a year ago for Afghanistan and today the entire country is a subject of the Islamists. Battalion does not necessarily matter as much as determination does, and determination is the first mental armour an average insurgent bears.
Nigeria government lacks the determination to win any fight against insecurity. The body language of the president may be termed to be a bromance with the insurgents. Defence Academy’s attack is a huge record for the bandits which may embolden them to take attack to Aso Rock.
Source: Seyi Oyetunbi
