NATIONAL Chairman of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and former Military Administrator of Akwa Ibom State, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd)) has warned that the present insecurity could escalate, overwhelm and consume the nation, including the President, Governors and Senators, if the leadership continues to pay deaf ears to the views of others on the way out.

Nkanga, who presides over the South-South regional group, told Saturday Vanguard in an interview, “Well, I may not know exactly where the country went wrong, but I think it is when impunity became a way of government and when we started thinking that impunity is the normal way of government.”

Some of us had spoken in the past; when you talk about Boko Haram, you talk about this, I don’t know what the underlying agenda is, but with that level of insecurity we said this is not a conventional warfare, this is a kind of insurgency, tackle it the way it should be, look into the problems.

There must be some kind of understanding. What is their problem? Win the minds and hearts of the people. I can tell you the way we are going about it, this war may never end.

If you think that you can go there and bomb them, it will just be escalating and going the way it is because you have not paid attention to the origin of these problems.

It started with Boko Haram, today they are not probably going by that name again. Nobody is talking about Boko Haram and where it is restricted anymore, you will just hear bomb blast in Borno state, some in the North East.

Nobody thought that they would go to the North West, going into Zamfara and Katsina. Now they are calling it banditry. At the present, it is going to the South West.

Therefore, these are the dangers and I hope well- meaning Nigerians will see that what we are saying is challenging the legitimacy of the administration.

They better see it; people must be dissatisfied with something, it is they are not carried along, they are not allowed to express themselves or they do not see the opportunity to express themselves.

You cannot handle the country as if we are in a military barracks, it will not work. “Some people are dissatisfied with something, so go back to the basics, and now some are calling for summit, they want people to sit down and talk.

However, people have talked before, they made recommendations, and you did not implement them for whatever reason. It is not the person that carries the message that is important, but the message itself.

If they are talking about conference, there was a national conference in 2014 and over 600 recommendations were made, and about 490 very well respected Nigerians sat down and put that together, you just put it in the cupboard.

Many of the things happening today including the insecurity, solution are inside there. Sometimes you see them try to bring out one of the recommendations to do, so why are you rejecting it? “And even there before 2014 confab, there were some others, which the 2014 conference took into consideration, so why can’t you take it and implement it.

The government lives for the people, it is not the people living for government. Therefore, if this is what the people want, if this is what will make them to be at ease, why not pay attention to it and accept it.

Nobody has monopoly of knowledge. “Few days ago, I heard them talking about security summit, that one is coming from the National Assembly, the Senate.

That is well and good, but they had one and I was a participant, recommendations made, they have not done anything about it and they are calling for another one.

So, the way out is for you to listen to the other people, look at the problems that started this in the first instance, provide good governance, be a listening government and implement what was jointly agreed , not just what a few people want to see.

People are beginning to question the legitimacy of the administration. When the problem gets beyond the administration, if they cannot handle it, everybody will be consumed, including those in government today.

Do not think that because you are a President, a governor, a senator that you will be spared. Warlords will emerge.

Let them go to Somalia, Liberia , Rwanda and see what happened there and some infantile sycophants are coming out to say all is well. Not all is well.

Do not compare what had happened at every other administration, look at what is happening now because some will come out to say ah, before 2015 this was happening.

We are not talking about those who died before 2015; we are talking about those who died now. “Stop the carnage, people were not killed like they are killing them in the South West now. You cannot go safely from Abuja to Kaduna without people escorting you with helicopters. The world is watching us.

The point is that even if it is one human being that dies, it would diminish us. Do not sit in Lagos and think that it is somebody in Maiduguri that died; therefore, it should not worry you.

Do not stay in Sokoto and say it is somebody in Calabar, it should not worry you, it should worry us. The life of one person should matter to all of us,” Nkanga said.




Read more here; https://maniagist.com/2019/08/09/nigeria-is-not-military-barracks-buhari-should-listen-to-people-idongesit-says/

The time for true freedom is now!

Millions of Nigerians agreed we need a revolution.
A country with increasing insecurity will send us all in extinction. Come out on August 19th let’s have a talk with the government

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The time for true freedom is now!

Millions of Nigerians agreed we need a revolution.
A country with increasing insecurity will send us all in extinction. Come out on August 19th let’s have a talk with the government

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Opeyemiadura2:

I wonder when Buhari leave power by 2023, how he react to national issue under another administration.
I pray another party takes over so that we will knw the level of atrocities committed by APC.

Opeyemiadura2:

People are beginning to question the legitimacy of the administration. When the problem gets beyond the administration, if they cannot handle it, everybody will be consumed, including those in government today.

Do not think that because you are a President, a governor, a senator that you will be spared. Warlords will emerge.

Hmm !!!

I genuinely feel sorry for what will happen to Nigeria is the Judges do not stop Buhari