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Gani Adams: We Can Sack Terrorists From S-west Forests In 3 Months, But Fg Frustrating Us

Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Abiodun Adams has said accused the Federal Government of frustrating efforts by the Oodua Peoples Congress’s (OPC) to dislodge terrorists from states in the South-West.

In an interview with VINCENT KALU, Aare Adams insisted that the Federal Government must release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally and without delay. He also noted that the authorities in Benin Republic and their Nigerian counterpart must also set Yourba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho free immediately.

You issued a statement that terrorists have invaded the forests of Osun, Oyo and Ogun states. How did you come about this?

That was an intelligence report and my office as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba; I do have access to certain information on the Yoruba. If you want to circulate the information individually, it would be very difficult. The only thing you can do is to issue a statement that will get to everybody in the affected communities and also the security agencies so that they can act. Psychologically, it is to prepare us to defend our region. My statements have always been accurate. This information very true. I cannot give false information for any reason.

As Aare Onakakanfo, people say you only raise alarm but take no action. Why can’t you and your foot soldiers storm the forests and drive the criminals out?

It will be very difficult for you to take action given the structure we operate in this country today. Aare Onakakanfo of the olden days only needed the approval of the Alaafin to go to war. But now, the Oyo Empire in not in existence anymore. When you are talking of security, don’t forget the fact that the only security the entire Yoruba land had then was the one coordinated by the Aare Onakakanfo. That was why they called him Generalissimo or Field Marshal by then. But now, you have state governors on ground; there is also the fFderal Government and the local government. The President of the Federal Republic is in charge of all security agencies and the governors are the chief security officers of their states. Local governments chairmen are in charge of security at the local governments. Even in a community, you cannot just move your men to the forests without the approval of the traditional ruler of the community. You cannot move your men to those forests without the support of the state government and the local government, even if you don’t have the support of the Federal Government. It would be extremely difficult.

We have had many experiences. When we started security activities of OPC in 1999, we moved without the consent of the traditional rulers of the communities; we all found ourselves to blame at the end of the day. The traditional ruler would even say we came to his community to cause security breach. The government would blame you, asking if you were a registered organisation to be involved in the security activities of the Federal Government. So the little you can achieve is when you have an understanding between you and the security agencies, when they realised that there has to be synergy for their operation. We have written letters to the state commissioners of police to have synergy on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway because of the kind of thing that takes place on the road. But they didn’t listen to us. The Director of Operation of Lagos State about a year ago said we were not registered. Are you talking of registration or security to protect lives and property? We have made many attempts. We wrote to Lagos State Commissioner of Police; the directors of the DSS of Lagos, Ogun and Oyo Commands through the Southwest Security Stakeholders, but they refused to have synergy with us. When we realised that we were helpless, the only thing we could do was to put security information in the public opinion. That’s what I did, maybe they can reason. What happened at Owo was a great embarrassment to me. It may not be an embarrassment to the police authorities. For the position of Aare Onakakanfo, people believe that I have a role to play, especially my background as an OPC leader that has structures in the entire Yoruba land. That was the reasons the late Alaafin gave me that position. But you can’t operate without the support of the government; you can’t operate without the support of the traditional rulers of an affected community; it will be very difficult. I was one of the people that pushed for Amotekun before it was founded. I was the first person after my installation as the Aare Onakakanfo in 2015 that wrote to all the governors and others that there is need for them to organise a South-West security conference. That was what led to the establishment of Amotekun. I’m also one of its leaders. This morning, I spoke with the Commander of Ondo State Amotekun on the security threat to the South-West. If I don’t talk on the security in Yoruba land, who would talk? It is part of my responsibility to raise the alarm. If you watch the videos of what is happening in the North, you have to make sure that you prepare yourself to protect your region. I heard this morning that about 30 people were kidnapped on a highway in the South-East. As volatile as the South-East is because of the issue of self determination, these terrorists still operate in that region. In the South-West, we are handling our struggle via diplomacy. The procedure you have on ground in Nigerian because of its sovereignty cannot allow you, even though you have the most powerful machinery like Russia; you can’t equate the government security without the approval of the government, or you will find yourself to blame at the end of the day, as you will be adjudged to have committed treasonable felony, murder and unlawful possession of firearms. Assume the security agencies ask OPC to come and assist them, within three weeks, we will flush these terrorists out.

Do you mean that the government is frustrating your efforts?
Yes; definitely. I will give you some examples. When we had serious issues in Yoruba land, we came to the rescue. OPC came to the rescue. Do you remember Akala? In 1998 / 1999, Akala was the criminal den in Mushin, Lagos State when Buba Marwa was the military governor of the state. Marwa tried all his best to flush them out, but to no avail. Three times, the governor loaded LSTC buses with security men to dislodge the criminals, but they were repelled. The criminals continued until they killed one of our members. Then we invaded the place and dislodged them and they are no more. People have erected buildings there. If you knew the place before, and you get there now, you can’t believe it is the same Akala area. Secondly, during the time of Badoo in Lagos and Ogun states, Mr Fatai Owoseni, the Special Adviser on Security to Oyo State governor, who was then the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, refused to act. The IG was calling him to stop the Badoo, but he could not. When Owoseni went for lesser Haji, the IG called the deputy commissioner of police, Operation, Edgar Imohimi to stop the Badoo. Edgar reached out to me (I was not the Aare Onakakanfo then) and invited me to his office. He told me that he needed my assistance, that Badoo issue was giving him serious problem, and they wanted us to work with them on this issue. After that, we had another meeting with all the leaders of OPC. I brought the five leaders of the organisation in Ikorodu and we now gave insight into how Badoo started. After two or three meetings, we went for the first operation and arrested about 155 suspects. Du=ring the second operation, we arrested about 148. And after the third operation, about 450 suspects were arrested. Edgar set up a panel that exonerated innocent people from the suspects. The people involved in that evil activity were about 148, and they were charged to court. That was how we ended Badoo.

The third instance was the Mile Two-Iba area. There was a recurrence of kidnapping in that area – Festac, Shoba, Amuwo Odofin and Iba to the extent that they kidnapped the Oba of Iba and kept him for more than two months. The Commandant of Ojo Military Cantonment called our leaders in Oriade and Amuwo Local Governments, but they told him that they couldn’t do anything until he contacted their boss. That was me, then Otunba Gani Adams. I had a conference call with the Commandant and we agreed on the operation. There is an Island in between Shoba and Ikotu where some Niger Delta men had become a nuisance in the area; kidnapping, raping and killing people to the extent that they killed a two-star military officer, which was what provoked the cantonment commandant. An operation involving the army and the OPC was carried out and within three days, we dislodged all the criminals in that area, arrested many of them, and the army handed them over to the police and they were prosecuted. That ended the criminality in that area.


The fourth one happened last year. I’m telling you the major ones that I was involved in directly. Our people thought that Wakili operating in Ibarapa was a spirit that could not be apprehended. But within two weeks, we apprehended his second in command and three people. Within four weeks, our members apprehended Wakili and handed him over to the Divisional Police officer in Igbora. The three people that went to hand over Wakili to the police were equally arrested, and at the end of the day, they were charged for murder along with Wakili. They were charged for murder, arson, unlawful possession of firearms. I explained to the Commissioner of Police, but he said there was nothing he could do as an order was received from Abuja that he had to charge them. It took us about three or four months before the OPC members got their freedom. So, we are acting based on experience. You can’t just go on operation without the cooperation of the government, the police and the traditional ruler of the affected community. We have to look for a strategy, but we operate by sensitizing the people living in that area so that they can be aware of the danger around them. Information is power.

What is being done to prevent another Owo massacre beyond raising the alarm?

That was exactly what made me to issue a statement to alert the public that another one is coming. Assuming we were proactive, we wouldn’t have lost about 40 lives, with about 80 people still in the hospital. It’s one of the reasons that we have keep our eyes open and our rears on the ground to listen and know what will happen. Information is power and what happened in Owo was a serious embarrassment to our race. I had to write a letter to the United Nations, copied to more than 60 different internationals organisations. How long would we be writing letters to UN without action? I saw Owoseni talking about planning based on intelligence. He shouldn’t say something like that. When I was raising the alarm on Okeogun three years ago; raising alarm on Ibarapa, he was one of the people that told the governor that it’s a lie until the crisis almost consumed that village in Oyo State. Go and Google what I said on Igbora. Igbora is about 20 minutes to Igangan, to Ayete, where the terrorists had constituted themselves in the bush and they operated with motorbikes. I said it about three years ago, but they didn’t take it so seriously. Look at what happened in Ibarapa; the trauma led to the death of the monarch when they burnt his palace. He was not killed, but they burnt his palace. He couldn’t withstand it anymore and we lost him, and also more than 40 people. The same thing in Ayete. We got the information on Kishi and I called the OPC vigilantes and hunters and we went to the Kishi forest in Oke-ogun, which is about 18 kilometres to Niger State, and Kishi to Iseyin is 18 kilometres and there is a forest linking the two communities. These terrorists have been troubling our people in Abuare, until the people of the community gave me the information and I issued a statement. On the second day, I moved our men to that place and they flushed them out and all the arms, ammunition, charms they recovered were handed over to the Area commander. So they now moved to Ibarapa and that’s how we had a lot of problem there.

So, when you are talking about intelligence, it doesn’t hang in one place. You may have your own in this place and I may have my own also in this place. There are thousands of ways of getting intelligence. It is not peculiar to you even if you are a general in the Nigeria Army that serves in the Intelligence unit. It is also not peculiar to retired policemen who didn’t perform in Lagos and Benue states and you say you are an expert in intelligence. Even a common man who didn’t go to intelligence school can give you information that you can act on. Most of the informants that the DSS, the police are using are stark illiterates and they are delivering in terms of giving them information. In the rural villages, you can’t use the elite; you use the commoners to give you intelligence. Then, you are comparing yourself with someone who has members in the entire Yoruba land. Even in the remote villages, we have members there and those who give us information are people who can die for the cause of Yoruba nation.

Sunday Igboho is still in Benin Republic. How should the government handle his case?

The Federal Government should release Igboho unconditionally. He didn’t commit any offence; he was just exercising his opinion in the defence of his people. He didn’t kill, he didn’t rape, and he didn’t commit arson. Why should you give him a temporary freedom in Benin Republic? Leave him to come to Nigeria and continue his business and even continue his struggle for Yoruba people. It is not about political solutions; he didn’t commit any offence. He was a businessman before he rose up and started fighting for his Yoruba people. So, he should be released unconditionally. They gave him temporary freedom; I don’t see anything in it. It was a politically motivated bail between the Benin Republic and Nigeria. Something like that will not give Nigeria a very good history in future. Even the international community is seeing how Nigeria is intimidating its citizen, who is only saying that his people should be free. This is adding to the country’s poor human rights record.

Do you think the government should address the Nnamdi Kanu’s case politically?

The government shouldn’t wait until the United Nations teaches them what to do, as it has urged the Nigeria government to release Nnamdi Kanu. Do you know the detention of Kanu has cost the government so much in the South-East? The South-East is becoming a no-go area even for the government, INEC, even for the international community. You detain a popular leader and you thought his popularity will diminish. By the time you detain a popular leader, he becomes more popular and then a hero. Even when the leader is killed, another person will take over. It is a message. You can kill the messenger, but you cannot kill the message. If you think that by detaining the messenger you will stop the struggle, you miss the point. Take Chief M. K. O. Abiola as an example. The moment the government detained him, the struggle took a higher pitch at the global village. He died in 1998, but his spirit was not killed. He was not allowed to be president. Buhari came and declared him president posthumously some years ago. Those who denied Abiola from becoming the president don’t have a name in the society and some of them have died.

When you are trying to frustrate justice, you are frustrating your future. Kanu should be released. The UN will not make a case for a criminal. It is the most important and highest organisation in the whole world. For it to urge the government to release him and give him freedom means they have realised that he is not a criminal, and this is what his people want. We have given many suggestions to the government that let us restructure this country to douse the tension of self-determination, but they refused.

This is a government that believes in centralising operations. You refused to agree on state police; you refused to agree on regionalism and you are coming with Water Resources Bill to take away water from the state, take away our Osun from us in Oshogbo, you take away Oba from us in Oyo and Iwo and you now take away our sea from us based on what Ahmadu Bello said that he would throw his sword and it would land in the sea. He had Ahmadu Bello Way, which is beside the sea, and you want to take the sea from us, it is not possible. You can’t take it away from us. God is a God of justice. One of the reasons the Nigerian government is not moving forward and we are landing in catastrophe everyday is that we are running a government on the basis of injustice. It is unfortunate that all our institutions have been tampered with. All that made Nigeria to be together has been tampered with in the seven years of Buhari. The only thing that will save this country is to return to true federalism; how we agreed to be before we got our independence.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/gani-adams-we-can-sack-terrorists-from-s-west-forests-in-3-months-but-fg-frustrating-us/

I am Obedient.

A big shame on Governor Oyetola. A state governor sponsoring terrorists against his state. No wonder Portable is his role model.

Ok Ilu was declared wanted by the police but unknown to the masses, the terrorists had always be in the convoy of Mr governor for protection.

I am ashamed of senseless Oyetola.

Nobody in his right senses would vote a criminal like Tinubu.

PandoraObi:
Peter Obi supporters consoling themselves in PDP victory

Tinubu ti lu'le patapata. Eyin ole fo.

Totilopussylick:
And you think Atiku will win the next president in Nigeria.

He will forever remain Cameroon citizen living in Nigeria

INEC chairman, well-done.

Just make sure you milk Tinubu dry before 2023 because after 2023, nothing for you again.

Ddeliverer007:
This is a very stupid decision. Im voting for Obi but my friend, you have to better your life and destiny and you don’t do that by throwing opportunities away.

An Obi won’t do that for you.

However, Obi2023

Hungry man, how are you better than Tinubu's rented urchins? You are one of the reasons Nigeria is like this.

Jking20:
Another set of insane people in this country, that's all the poor youths of this generation is after. Tell me how a reasonable person in his right senses be showcasing himself as being a cultist and fools will be appreciating it.

Well, maybe that's another movement for PO and labour Party strategy. That's what they're good at anyways.

APC: Pretty Mike Jabs Tinubu And Shettima, Attends Event With 'Fake' Clerics, Celebrities React

Watch the video here >> https://www.facebook.com/Ifychucksdynasty/videos/1201782277309452/?app=fbl

https://www.mynigeria.com/NigeriaHomePage/entertainment/APC-PrettyMike-jabs-Tinubu-and-Shettima-attends-event-with-fake-clerics-celebrities-react-578525

APC: Pretty Mike Jabs Tinubu And Shettima, Attends Event With 'Fake' Clerics, Celebrities React

Watch the video here >> https://www.facebook.com/Ifychucksdynasty/videos/1201782277309452/?app=fbl

https://www.mynigeria.com/NigeriaHomePage/entertainment/APC-PrettyMike-jabs-Tinubu-and-Shettima-attends-event-with-fake-clerics-celebrities-react-578525

SlavaUkraini:
Message obviously taken out of context.

Tinubu's rented urchins doing overtime. Your mates have closed since 6 p.m.

apache22b:
If Tinubu was incompetent like the Obidient's always say, he wouldn't have emerged as the APC presidential flag bearer. Think about it my fellow youths. The so called Obidient's and Peter Obi has nothing to offer this great Country except for propaganda and thuggery.

Even falseprophet1 can testify to what I'm saying. Tinubu single handedly made Lagos state what it is today and he's willing to take Nigeria to greater heights from good roads,power, housing, refineries,basic amenities, just to mention a few.

My fellow youths and elders, don't be deceived by the sweet and empty promises of Peter Obi.

My fellow youths both young and old, let's give Tinubu a chance to make this country better.

Vote Wisely

Vote Bola Ahmed Tinubu

2023: ‘Be Obidient’ – Bishop Oyedepo Charges Congregation

The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, popularly called Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has stated that obedience is better than sacrifice.

Naija News reports that is as his wife m, Faith Oyedepo, urged winners to be obedient in the affairs of the Kingdom (of God).

The Christian couple gave the charge while speaking at the Winners Chapel monthly leadership conference.

This online newspaper reports that many have interpreted those words as a subtle endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, for the 2023 presidential election.

Obi’s supporters, who are most youths and social media active, have been campaigning under the alias ‘Obi-dients’.

Recall that Peter Obi had recently paid a visit to the Living Faith Church, where he met the Oyedepos and took photos that later became viral.

Speaking at the leadership conference, Bishop Oyedepo, while unravelling the mystery of the covenant of obedience, said: “To be obedient is better than sacrifice. Obedience may be costly but the end result is always priceless.

“When you live your life as a seed, its impact lives for generations after you.”

On her part, Oyedepo’s wife stated the need for Christians to be obedient to spiritual instructions to enjoy the good of the land.

She said: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” (Isa. 1:19-20).

Mrs Oyedepo also urged the church to pray for God’s Spirit to serve and be obedient.

https://www./2022/08/07/be-obidient-bishop-oyedepo-charges-congregation/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

EndWeakerection:
@floret23... Seen Pictures... Probably He sat on a Wet Chair.

someone might have Poured water on that Chair Earlier.

Except we see another Location with same wet Cloth.

What do you think.. There is no hatred here or Politics of Attacks here..

This is Fact Checking..

One Love.

The pictures are from two different locations. You can't see more wet pictures of Tinubu because he has been wearing pampers and about twenty aids always circle round him about to block cameras.

The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, popularly called Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has stated that obedience is better than sacrifice.

Naija News reports that is as his wife m, Faith Oyedepo, urged winners to be obedient in the affairs of the Kingdom (of God).

The Christian couple gave the charge while speaking at the Winners Chapel monthly leadership conference.

This online newspaper reports that many have interpreted those words as a subtle endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, for the 2023 presidential election.

Obi’s supporters, who are most youths and social media active, have been campaigning under the alias ‘Obi-dients’.

Recall that Peter Obi had recently paid a visit to the Living Faith Church, where he met the Oyedepos and took photos that later became viral.

Speaking at the leadership conference, Bishop Oyedepo, while unravelling the mystery of the covenant of obedience, said: “To be obedient is better than sacrifice. Obedience may be costly but the end result is always priceless.

“When you live your life as a seed, its impact lives for generations after you.”

On her part, Oyedepo’s wife stated the need for Christians to be obedient to spiritual instructions to enjoy the good of the land.

She said: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” (Isa. 1:19-20).

Mrs Oyedepo also urged the church to pray for God’s Spirit to serve and be obedient.

https://www./2022/08/07/be-obidient-bishop-oyedepo-charges-congregation/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

EndWeakerection

sanusideunifier

apache22b

Tinubu ti lu'le

It seems urchins have closed for today. I am not seeing their badderdash this evening. I wish they won't know Tinubu has failed until 2023.

rightdata:
APC is now trying to use Christians to sell their Muslim Muslim ticket. Oshiomole, lalong, keyamo.

I don't consider those people you mentioned christians in the first place. Those people would be willing to campaign for the deadliest terrorists so far post and money are involved. People that derive joy in ridiculing christian associations and pastors. They don't care about Christians because they are not christians.

Jim99:
I know right. He was killed in 2020 by the same CIA

If it was Russia, the whole family and the surrounding buildings would have been reduced to rubbles.

In terms of precision strikes, give it to Israel and USA.

Terrorist apologists and head slammer will not like this video. A beautiful wonder to behold

Chinkoalhaji34:
Vote Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Don't waste your vote.

Surporting evil for a living. You think yourself too low. I pity your destiny sha.

candidtalk:
Keep fooling yourself. You have always envied Yorubas and attacked them historically but you people remain political failures in totality from Azikiwe to Aguyi Ironsi, through Nzeogwu to the biggest failure called Ojukwu and now the coward and conman called Obi who is taking Igbos for a ride.

Like Awolowo, Tinubu is the real deal while Obi is an even more failed version of Azikiwe.

Awolowo's enduring legacies, like those of Tinubu, is incontrovertibly visible today.

Azikiew made a lot of noise and was obsessed with attention-seeking up and down, as is typical of an Igbo man, yet he has no definitive legacy or achievement as a politician. Ditto Obi.

No lies worse than that we tell ourselves. Keep demonizing Tinubu and keep lying to yourselves about the empty barrel called Peter Obi.

Tinubu will come a distant 3rd position in This election,

Majority of northern Muslims including Those in middle-belt will vote for Atiku and Kwankwaso,

Majority of northern christains including those in middle-belt will Vote for Peter Obi,

Tinubu and Peter Obi will share South-west votes becos that region has about 52% christains and 48% Muslims,

Finally, Obi will get block votes From South East and South south.

beelon1020:
Fake news...

Kai !! It's very challenging to they support bad market

Anybody still supporting and campaigning for Tilinbu deserve to be stoned alive

How can some adults be irredeemably stewpid and wicked for themselves tueh

If u are supporting Tilinbu to come and start where Buhari stopped, that's how Ur life and Ur generation will stop.

Dubaku543:
I am an Obi supporter but the Northern APC Governors will deliver the North to Tinubu like a served meal on a clean slate dinning table.

And they will do it the bad way!!
Fear the spirit of desperation!

Shame on you liar.


6. Muslim-Muslim Ticket Violates Islam – Popular Islamic Preacher, Sheikh Masussuka

JEWELofHELL666:

The cleric declared that those pushing for a Muslim-Muslim ticket are agents of injustice and enemies of peace, as according to him, they are acting at variance with the tenets of Islam.

aninibinladen:
Expect more across the north. The joke is on those who for a second thought the north will abandon theirs for a Tinubu simply because he went for a muslimmuslim ticket.

Tinubu will win only the southwest and Borno, even Yobe is not so sure.

Are you Yoruba?

Salewa97:
We're vigilant

. God bless Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

I thought you said buhari was the best thing that happened to Nigeria? Why dissociating Tinubu from him? Does it mean Tinubu can't beat buhari record or opposite of the wonderful buhari?

By the way, who said that he was the one that made buhari president? I guess the person is a worse disaster than being part of buhari's government.

Please when is national assembly reviewing the minimum qualifications to vye for the national assembly office to BSc/Hnd? We don't need this tailor in the national assembly to avert more terror.

Opolopoopolonio:
True

What a shame by thess evil men! When Tinubu boasted he brought Buhari after he was crying on Television!

diadem10:
Simple thing to comprehend for someone who has a brain.

So tinubu had ideas to develop Nigeria and refused to share them with buhari ?

Ok he did and buhari refused ? So why did you support him again after 4 years of not listening to you ?

The issue is tinubu is a hard sell really

Compare and contrast

DukeofUmueri247:
Our govt would have sow garment for him and declear him a repentant terrorist..

He would have become a minister, senator or governor.

E.g. Pantami, Hell Rufai, Shetima, and so on.

The former Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode has stated that the Nigerian government do not kill terrorists but rather appeases, protects and aids them in rescuing their members in the prison.

Speaking on the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri by the United States government led by President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, Mr Kayode accuses the Nigerian government of indirectly aiding the terrorists in their acts.

“The Americans killed Osama Bin Ladin, AbuBakr Al Baghdadi & now Ayman Al Zawahiri. Kudos!

In Nigeria we do not kill terrorists: we beg them, pay them, appease them, reward them, bow before them, give them chieftaincy titles & let them break into the prison to free their brothers.”

Mr Zawahari was on America’s most wanted terrorists list as he and Osama Bin Laden were involved in September 11 attack at the World Trade Centre in the United States.

Recall that terrorists broke into the Kuje prison and freed its members held captive. It also warned that it will abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai in its viral video.

However, Troops of 7 Guards Battalion and 167 Special Force Battalion in conjunction with the air component of Operation WHIRL PUNCH conducted a clearance patrol around Bwari general area between 24 – 26 July 2022, following the attack on a military checkpoint in Bwari and the killing of soldiers.

“Troops successfully clear Kawu and Ido villages. Consequently, about 30 terrorists were neutralized and their enclave and hideout destroyed. Ground troops also recovered 6 x motorcycles, 2 x AK47 rifles, 1 x fully loaded LMG magazine amongst others during mob up.

“The hierarchy of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies wishes to re-assured Nigerians of its commitment and pact with all Nigerians.

“With the recent operations carried out from July 23, we wish to assure residents of FCT in particular that we are undaunted and unrelenting in our efforts to ensure the safety of lives and properties.

“People should go about their normal business as their safety is guaranteed. The support and cooperation of all Nigerians are hereby solicited as security is everybody’s business.

“Citizens are encouraged to report unusual persons in your community to security agencies. If you see something, say something.”

https://newsleverage.com/2022/08/02/zawahiri-nigeria-rewards-terrorists-ffk/

deeva2:
Be sincere and be proud of your state pls...Which biafran state are you from?

Ipinle Omoluabi represents virtues
Tinubu represent everything against virtues

deeva2:
Be sincere and be proud of your state pls...Which biafran state are you from?

A Captive President, Blighted Country, Docile People | Guardian Nigeria
Those Nigerians who once thought that the Buhari presidency would take our country to a destination better than this forlorn outpost of stasis, anarchy and overwhelming misery now know better

Those Nigerians who once thought that the Buhari presidency would take our country to a destination better than this forlorn outpost of stasis, anarchy and overwhelming misery now know better. They are shaking their heads in utter regret, and sheer bewilderment.

When we warned, even as early as the days before the 2015 presidential vote, that Buhari’s rabid sectionalism and extreme religious proclivities would push Nigeria to a sad precipice, we were excoriated and branded as hateful and irrational peddlers of Islamophobia. But those who pointed accusing fingers at us then are now also crying, painfully – victims of Islamist terrorism, Fulani herdsmen’s terrorism and expansionism, armed banditry, kidnapping for hefty pay-offs and sundry criminalities that have become the chief themes of Buhari’s reign so far.

But, lest we forget, this is the man whom Boko Haram once pencilled down as their spokesman before he became president – based on his strident support for them (once upon a time?) This is a president in whose cabinet a popular and self-confessed Al-Qaeda apologist snugly perches – one of the president’s closest allies.

So what had Nigerians expected? To expect anything other than the prevailing atmosphere of siege and dark clouds hanging all over the country would amount to deluding ourselves, and even Mr Buhari himself. After all, Nigerians are receiving exactly what they bargained for. Moreover, it is said that countries get the kind of leaders they deserve.

In an editorial condemning a gift of one million dollars, President Buhari surreptitiously offered the terrorist government of Afghanistan, that the Nigerian Tribune (April 4, 2022) captured the very flavour of the last seven years. “Nigerians are genuinely fed up with the Buhari administration and cannot wait for it to run down its time and depart,” the newspaper declared.

Then it continued: “Not only is the president incompetent, he has shown time and again that he is also insensitive. The criticisms against the president when he was running for office in 2015 was that he was too sectarian and provincial and that he did not have the imagination to run a local government, let alone a country as complex as Nigeria.”

And with a finality that has a ring of tragedy, tinged with regret, the editorial ended: “Sadly, the time has proved those critics right.”

Terrorists may soon knock on the gates of the presidential villa, Abuja. Bishop Matthew Kukah warned the Buhari administration to guard against insurgency turning the north into another Afghanistan. Recall that on August 15, 2021, Islamist terrorists, the Taliban, took control of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital.

The Daily Post (December 26, 2021) reported the cleric as raising the alarm that “so many communities have been turned into gulags of misery, death, pain and perfidy,” and called out that “we must move quickly before Arewa, our beloved Arewa, descends into ‘Arewanistan’ (coined from Afghanistan).” But, apparently, the Bishop’s warning has not been taken seriously.

Today, not only is the entire north and other parts of the country reeling from wanton acts of terrorism and armed attacks, the possibility of terrorists reenacting the Kabul take-over in our country’s capital is growing by the day. Consider these. On July 5, terrorists attacked the Kuje prison in the federal capital and freed 600 of their compatriots held in the facility.

Then on July 24, two officers and eight soldiers were killed by terrorists during an ambush in Bwari, also the nation’s city. It is worthy of note that the Taliban seized the capital city without firing a shot after waging a 20-year bloody jihad against the Americans and the Afghan administration. The insurgents were aided and abetted by government officials – both within the military and state establishments – who later seamlessly melted into the new Taliban administration.

And in a move that shocked Nigerians and most of the international community, which regards that government as a pariah, it emerged early this year that President Buhari had secretly donated $1 million to the Taliban as so-called humanitarian aid through the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Latest international security reports have revealed that Afghanistan is gradually becoming a safe haven and training ground for Islamist terrorists from all over the world.

And considering the strong links between Nigeria’s Boko Haram, Ansaru and Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and the more formidable and brutal Islamist terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which have global networks, this should be a source of serious concern to Nigerians and the international community.

What with the puzzling and persistent (some say deliberate) failure of the Buhari government to rein in Nigeria’s terrorists, armed Fulani herdsmen and well-armed bandits and kidnappers, As we have seen above, some of them have become so elusive, powerful and audacious that they have made the nation’s capital city a routine playground under the watch of Mr Buhari – a retired Army General.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/a-captive-president-blighted-country-docile-people/amp