₦airaland Forum

kettykings:
Fubara will need the wealth of experience of uche secondus

AntiChristian:
Minimum wage earner go eat one bag finish?

BitterTruth0001:
E no go better for Tinubu supporters

Image123:
A brain filled with insults and zero ideas or innovation will really suffer in this Tinubu era bros. Change your strategy.

Image123:
Life seems to revolve around a bag of rice for most of the opposition. It's annoying how you're making it an easy ride for the president with this one-way, low quality opposition.

AntiChristian:


Bobloco go vex now o!

buckeyemedia:
Sharap, incoherent Wailer.

AmalaAtiEwedu:
e pain u sotay u quote me twice?

Jagaban till 2031

bentenny:
We don't need these drowning epistles and a plot by PDP to obtain power through gaslighting and manipulation!

U must accept the fact that equity is important hence it's either Obi or Tinubu continues!

Don't even get started with another classic narrative about whether we are not tired of apc regime as if PDP will fair any better if they capture power!
Apc and PDP will always be one and the same!

All what everyone is asking for is the equitable distribution of power from north to south which PDP has always been an advocate for but yet still want to bring back the north through the back door by selling the lame rhetorics of atiku doing 8 years and handing over to a SE president!

U guys PDP still think Nigerians have forgotten how the likes of Atiku and some northern elites in PDP conspired to throw out GEJ by claiming it was the turn of the north!

Now is the turn of the South....period!

AmalaAtiEwedu:
u go wail till 2031

There is need to expedite investigations on the killings so that the innocent ones do not suffer unnecessarily

Five days after the President-General of Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Pa James Oghoroko, reportedly died in military detention, the 81-year-old treasurer, Dennis Okugbaye, was also said to have lost his life in similar circumstance. Both leaders, along with several others were arrested by the military last August, following a violent raid on Okuama community that forced residents to flee into the bush. Many of the displaced are now pining away at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Ewu Kingdom. But serious questions are now being raised on the condition under which the military authorities are keeping the suspects and how two died within a period of one week.

It all started in March this year when communal gunmen ambushed troops of the 181 Amphibious Battalion after which the commanding officer, a Lt Colonel, and 16 other army personnel were gruesomely murdered. In a statement he personally signed, President Bola Tinubu condemned the killing of the soldiers who were on a peace mission as “unconscionable crime against the Nigerian people” while authorising military authorities to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice. While also calling that those who killed the troops be apprehended and made to pay for their crime, we stated in a previous editorial that restraint on the part of the military was important so that innocent people would not be punished for the crime committed by a few.

Because of the way the issue has been handled, sympathy has shifted from the tragic killings of the soldiers at Okuama to the human rights credentials of our military in their dealings with civilians. There is therefore an urgent need to speed up the investigations so that those who are complicit could be handed to police for prosecution while the innocent ones can secure their freedom. The circumstances under which two detainees died in military custody should also be investigated.

Meanwhile, we reiterate our earlier position that military authorities should be concerned by the growing numbers of their personnel being ambushed and killed by criminals. Military operations in such an environment of volatility, and complexity as the Niger Delta must be intelligence driven to prevent this kind of tragedy. But more importantly, political authorities must also do more to resolve many of these land disputes that ignite violent eruptions. The problem is compounded by millions of illegal Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALWs) in the country. The ease of access to these weapons has made individuals and communities more fortified and hence less amenable to entreaties to make peace. Many communities are self-arming to protect themselves, to go on the offensive or for reprisal attacks. The frequency of these clashes demonstrates that we are teetering towards a lawless society, with all the frightening implications for peace and security in the nation.

We call on authorities in Abuja and the 36 states to arrest this rapid and steady slide into anarchy by addressing the conditions that make violent attacks tools of expressing grievances between and among communities. We also enjoin them to devise effective conflict resolution mechanisms, create an early warning system that would alert of a brewing crisis, equip security agencies with modern intelligence gathering tools and promote policies that encourage peaceful coexistence and social harmony. Community and religious leaders must also rise to help in promoting peaceful co-existence among our people.

Above all, we must accept that the insecurity confronting the nation is no longer a series of random and opportunistic attacks. Drafting in military troops to theatres of violence arising from land disputes has over the years proved to be no solution. The time has therefore come to realise the severity of the threat to our national security by reassessing the current strategies which have become ineffectual and costly. In urging our military to always exercise a “disciplined use of force” in times of crisis, a former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, also reminded them during a visit to Nigeria that “one person’s atrocity does not excuse another’s"

AmalaAtiEwedu:
u go wail till 2031

jamafa:
U no go see them here 😁

Nah to dey make noise up and down.

Good news no dey sweet them

Them no mean well for the country

Century25:
Nigeria will be great

ManirBK:
Good development over to you wailers United

Paraman:
A waste of court time. A federal high court has no business with this case

Strictlygreen:
Social media President

maasoap:
The energy and opportunity that you were supposed to use to pray for yourself. You think you are making sense cursing people for exercising their right just the same way you did! You're not mature

themanderon:
We warned you guys that the devil of a man was coming to tax you guys to death like he is doing in Lagos but you didn't listen.
The man has sold his soul to the devil a long time ago. He is giving Nigerians a taste of hell before the actual hell.