When President Goodluck Jonathan
observed not long ago that members of
a dreaded insurgent group had
infiltrated his own government, some
people thought it was politics. From the
look of things, it is becoming difficult
to doubt the assertion.
Although it might not be easy to
identity insurgents within the federal
cabinet as they may never openly
portray a combatant disposition, they
are probably there as patron moles who
supply information on the workings of
government to the insurgents. Such
people have always been in such
privileged positions anyway.
Some persons who had been in the
corridors of power years back can
confirm that the popular incessant
strike actions on prices of petroleum
products in the Obasanjo
administration were partly fuelled by
information from top government
officials to labour.
The way it worked was this: Once the
strike was about to start, the privileged
officials would quickly seize the
opportunity to extract approvals of
huge resources supposedly to quell the
strikes. There is doubt if government
ever knew the real roles of some of the
committees it assembled to resolve
crises. Some members probably passed
information to the other side thereby
making resolution difficult as well as
turning the matter into a recurring
phenomenon.
Can it also be true that there are
insurgents among our law enforcement
agencies? It would appear so because
there have always been stories to that
effect. Indeed, the Nigerian judiciary
had in the past convicted moles in our
Police that helped criminals in diverse
ways to wreck havoc on society.
A good example being the celebrated
underworld gun trotter, Lawrence Anini
who with the unfettered support of a
police officer instilled fear in all and
sundry for quite some time in Benin
City. At the height of his reign of
terror, he masterminded the shooting of
the then State Commissioner of Police.
Contrary to the general belief that Anini
had some ‘juju’ powers, part of which
he used to trace the Commissioner to
the spot where the latter was shot, his
real power was later found to be that
he had a mole in the Police. It is this
type of story that convinces many
people that it is moles in the security
agencies that coordinate criminal
operations. How come, some would
ask, that the Police usually arrive at a
robbery scene only when the criminals
have concluded their business and
have left the area? Would anyone
blame those who are reluctant to help
the police with vital information?
In the recent past, the celebrated case
of a suspected terrorist who was
arrested and reportedly allowed to
escape later is another issue that has
remained inexplicable. It is on the
same score, that the Edo State
Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,
has been asking everyone to help
unravel a case in which the
ammunition which by police record was
in police custody was the same one
allegedly used to kill his principal
secretary.
Early this month, the police arrested
one of its men assumed to have leaked
the information that led to the ambush
of security agents who were on a
mission to arrest some suspected
cultists in Nasarawa State. Since then,
no less than 15 police officers and men
accused of connivance with the cult
group to massacre their colleagues
have been arrested.
Whereas it has become easy to believe
the allegation that moles in the Police
are part of the nation’s complicated
security dilemma, the police is not the
only place where there are moles. They
are in earnest all over Nigeria
The latest suspected mole in the
Nasarawa massacre is not a police
personnel but a Director in the civil
service of the Nasarawa State
Government. According to media
reports, security agents who were still
peeved over the killing of their
colleagues by the dreaded Ombatse
Cult Group swooped on the Director
after tracing certain vital information
leaked to the cult group to his
telephone.
If this is shocking, a more scaring story
is that which says that there are now
moles in our revered military. On
January 19 this year, a Mali-bound
military convoy was ambushed and
attacked by insurgents in Okene, Kogi
State leading to the death of 2 soldiers
while 5 others were injured.
The Army has now confirmed that the
ambush was made possible by
information leaked by a soldier to the
insurgents. According to Lt.-Gen.
Azubuike Ihejirika, the Chief of Army
Staff (COAS), the soldier, who is now in
detention, is awaiting court martial in
connection with the leakage.
The consolation the rest of us now
have is that the army is dealing with
the issue in a down-to-earth manner.
The pragmatism must not be inchoate
– it has to be taken to its logical
conclusion. The way any one found
wanting is being handled, the recent
stern warning by the COAS at a
seminar organized by the Army at the
Transformation and Innovation Centre,
that all offenders would be decisively
dealt with and the public enlightenment
initiative on the subject are no doubt
reassuring.
Now that moles have become a crucial
part of our security challenges, the
Army must reform its recruitment
process so as always attract only
applicants with some measure of
integrity. A continuous assessment of
operatives for which the Army is well
known should more than ever before
incorporate a strategy which easily
identifies and quickly uproots
operatives that have a tendency to
degenerate into moles. In addition, how
to handle a mole should form an
essential part of the strategy for
forecasting, planning and coordinating
the arrangements for combating
terrorism.
The Police on its part may find it hard
to deal with the subject because of
long years of neglect and subsisting
prejudices but if it prioritizes the issue,
it would not be insurmountable.
Nothing else dislocates an arrangement
better than saboteur -insiders. The
issue of moles in Nigeria’s public
institutions has escalated to a
proportion in which no organization is
free from it. This is thus the time to
deal with the subject before we record
more moles than citizens.

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That this is scary, is an understatement. If not carefully handled, can drive a nation to anarchy.
How can security agents betray themselves to the point of execution? Its beats my understanding

The Problem is Most Nigerians do not understand what a country stand for ......

This is what happened when things do not happened on Merit but Man-know-man and my kinsmen !!!


Hausaman recruit Hausaman into SSS and u expect such fellow not to leaked vital information to his benefactor!!!


The Nigerians' Allegiance,Pledge and Priority is in order of family,Tribe,Ethnic,state,region,Nigeria!!!


Nigerian Govt itself is a MOLE !!!