Double Standard Approach To Dealing With Insecurity - Vanguard Editorial

One of the reasons Nigeria may never succeed in solving her insecurity problems under the Muhammadu Buhari dispensation is that the security forces have been made to operate with double standards.

Way back in 2015, the Global Terrorism Index, GTI, declared the militant Fulani herdsmen as the fourth most murderous terrorist group in the world behind Boko Haram, Islamic State and Somali Al Shabbab. Even though Buhari had adopted security as one of his cardinal objectives, his government has consistently handled the terrorism coming from the herders and “bandits” with kid gloves.

With Boko Haram’s dwindling fortunes, the so-called “bandits” terrorising Zamfara, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi and Niger states are fiercely competing with the militant herdsmen marauding communities in the Middle Belt and the South for the first place in our local terrorism index. While the Federal Government and even some governors and clerics from the North glamourise the North West terrorists as “bandits” doing “business” with the killings, mass abductions of students and other innocent citizens for ransom, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was declared a “terrorist” group way back in 2017 when they were merely unarmed agitators.

The killer-herdsmen have been massacring, kidnapping, destroying farmlands and occupying indigenous people’s forests at will in Benue and other states throughout the three geopolitical zones of the South. Rather than declare them terrorists, government calls their acts of terrorism “farmers-herders clashes”. It is also fighting tooth and nail to force Nigerians to give up their ancestral lands and water resources for the settlement of these armed and violent elements.

It was the refusal of the Federal Government to deal with the militant herdsmen that led to the formation of self-help outfits such as the IPOB’s Eastern Security Network, ESN, the Western Nigeria Security Network, better known as Amotekun Corps, the rise of Sunday Igboho, the agitation for Yoruba Nation and the struggle for the restoration of Biafra through referendum.

The so-called “bandits” have grown from cattle rustlers to militant groups now able to shoot down Nigerian warplanes. Only goodness knows what else they will acquire the capacity to do tomorrow because of their steady income from their kidnapping “business”.

There is no way a government can approach the scale of security challenges we are facing with double standards and expect to win. All hands are not on deck. Nigerians who feel unjustly treated by this regime feel alienated. Apart from their feeling of injustice, the perception that the Federal Government is not pursuing a pan-Nigerian agenda, but an ethnic one, cannot promote a united effort, even among those in the armed forces and security agencies.

The “bandits” and armed herdsmen are terrorists. They must be officially declared for what they are, and dealt with in the language they understand.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/double-standard-approach-to-dealing-with-insecurity/

Bandits, fulani herdsmen, Boko haram etc are all one and the same.... terrorists.
Don't let this jihadists government fool you.

MASTERCHIEF0847:
Bandits, fulani herdsmen, Boko haram etc are all one and the same.... terrorists.
Don't let this jihadists government fool you.

The government is doing double standard. Still surprising to me how bandits collect ransome, keep children and others hostage in places like Kaduna, Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto without our intelligence founding them out. Yet Igboho and Kanu locations can be detected without much I do. Continue.

The “bandits” and armed herdsmen are terrorists. They must be officially declared for what they are, and dealt with in the language they understand.

Bandits that can bring down fighter jet in Zamfara!

Bandits are just doing business.

It's unfair , honestly. But as the saying goes, you get leaders that you deserve. Our people vote wrong people into position, thus the injustice.

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Let's even add Igboho.

What exactly are his crimes?

Has he killed anyone?

What double standard ?. The shoot at sight order pmb gave against ak47 carriers is for fashion abi ?.
More than 1000 bandits where killed last week, brinin gwari Forest.
Its a fact that laws enforcement in Nigeria is very poor & Kanu choose to be the head of ipob & igboho as head Yoruba nation group, so who is the head of bandits in Hausa land ?.
The buharin daji was killed last year, had these bandits, have a group leader, he would had been arrested by the state.
What is the gain of these mushrooms media houses that want to plunge this country in to civil war. We know that KANU has UK citizenship, igboho has German citizenship, to my Nairaland forum pals, what country citizenship do you have apart of Nigeria, before you turn yourself to a refugee ?.

I won't say anything.

Hmmm

What I know is that there must surely be light at the end of every tunnel.

The present administration is setting a bad precedent.

Now subsequent administrations will point to them as the standard for future nepotism and merry go rounding instead of attending to critical issues.



Las las everybody will be alright!

bandits” and armed herdsmen and boko haram are business of the north outside farming.their patrons are in every arm of government now.anybody fighting against bandits” and armed herdsmen or boko haram should go back home till 2023.because i keep thinking if government can plan and arrest kanu that means they can also stop all this insecurity facing the country.but since its their booming business they wont.the best thing is to divide this country let every region go their way since they cant fix this country

Bandits, herdsmen, buhari government are all like the vegetable components that makes up a salad. They are all one, indulged in an orgy deceiving Nigerians. One have to be really daft not to see it for what it is.

Buhari by his actions/inactions, has really succeeded in creating divisions & enmity in this country almost beyond redemption.
Every policy & action is now viewed from the perspective of Tribe, Religion or political Party.

Wonder how Nigeria will fare beyond 2023.

It is quite a pity the situation we jave found ourselves in as a country with our current leader as president, honestly, it is really a pity... Even our pity has to be pitied, we are tired

Buhari wey for dey bush with bandits, Boko Haram and kidnappers as one of them if he hadn't won the 2015 election, and someone, somewhere is expecting him to handle people with whom he shared so many ideologies with iron hand.
No be ment be that?

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It's an agenda. Simple!

The bandits are even kidnapping soldiers and displaying them in picture 1 below while waiting for ransom from the FG and Nigeria Army which is more active in the South East or they will behead them as usual.

The second picture is FL Lt Dairo who was shutdown with his Alpha jet on a mission, he parachuted to safety and walked 30km in the forest to escape from the bandits and he even asked why people with anti aircraft missiles are still called 'bandits'?

The double standard is unprecedented and some still refer to the perpetrator as a man of 'integrity'

Nobody should bother quoting or mentioning the mischievous guy Augbaf below me or Felix aka MANNABBQGRILS after him

All I know is that if Ipob receive half of the bombardment bandits and boko haram are receiving by now, we won't have curtailed the cry of genocide in the entire SE.

You lie to yourself that Buhari is pampering bandits but refuse to say 'amen' when we pray that your life be pampered the same way Buhari is pampering bandits.

FG dey mad.

Wahala

will this news set Nnamdi Cownu free from eating our watery beans without peppers>

Buhari is a bloody tribaistic nkpi
His double standard towards everything in the country is so glaring
Those who over threw him during his military regime ought to have wasted his life then. He is of no use to humanity and as such deserve not to live

Juliusmalema:
So it is all about whataboutism all along right?

So siñce bandits and Boko Haram are killing and disturbing in north, Igbos should start killing and disturbing the east?

This is what we essential foolishness

It is always good and refreshing to see we still have reasonable and sensible members like you on this forum.
God bless you and God bless your parents for giving us a KING like you.
Truth is always bitter to those that want violence and deaths all across the nation.

But if the truth wanna kill them fools, let them die!
(You will see such murderers and killers quoting your post and ours in few seconds from now!)
They would have preferred the mental animal Cownu and the PDP political thugs killing igbos and other innocent Nigerian citizens in the East and West all because some other evil animals up North have been killing themselves for the past 20 years, what manner of evil comparison is that?
Elzakzaky has been in prison since 2017, you don't see people from his state crying and wailing.

Aufbauh:
All I know is that if Ipob receive half of the bombardment bandits and boko haram are receiving by now, we won't have curtailed the cry of genocide in the entire SE.

You lie to yourself that Buhari is pampering bandits but refuse to say 'amen' when we pray that your life be pampered the same way Buhari is pampering bandits.

God bless you for this absolute truth.
All what you wrote here is the truth and NOTHING BUTNTHE TRUTH!
Only Children of hate, frustrations and perdition will quote your post and say otherwise.

Hypocrisy and lies is in their DNA.....forever!

So siñce bandits and Boko Haram are killing and disturbing in north, Igbos should start killing and disturbing the east?
This is what we essential foolishness. Igbos have killed hundreds of Igbos in less than 2 months?

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We Rise!!