₦airaland Forum

Members of Nigeria’s main
opposition party complained
severally about the use of soldiers
during the presidential and
gubernatorial elections which ended
yesterday.
Reacting to this development, the
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), a
human rights organization, defended
the use of soldiers for elections in
Nigeria. According to MURIC, the use
of soldiers in Nigeria’s elections has
become mandatory.
“There are two main reasons for
which soldiers have to be used in
elections these days. Firstly, Nigerian
politicians and voters are yet to attain
the level of sophistication of their
counterparts in advanced countries.
They are still neck-deep in bolekaja
mentality. The average Nigerian
politician wants to win either by the
straights or by the bends. Our youth
still allow themselves to be used for
the snatching of ballot boxes and the
intimidation of opponents.
“The death toll would have been
higher while the pandemonium would
have been worse had the
government not deemed it wise to
involve the military. It is paradoxical
that the same wailers who complain
of security lapses around the country
are the first to object to the use of
soldiers who are capable of reducing
security breaches to their barest
minimum.
“Secondly, the population of the
Nigerian police is not sufficient to
guarantee adequate security. With a
population of 200 million, Nigeria
cannot even boast of half a million
policemen yet. The total number of
our police force as at 2015 was
317,000. Two batches of recruitments
have taken place since President
Muhammadu Buhari took over. His
predecessor did not even care. The
United Nations recommended at least
one policeman to every 448 persons.
So Nigeria is still under-policed.
“Since Nigeria is yet to meet global
best practices in terms of policing
the entire landmass, soldiers have to
be drafted in to make up for the
deficit. But even this is not enough
because our soldiers are already
overstretched. They are virtually
everywhere nowadays. They are in
every spot where there is security
threat: Zamfara, Kaduna, Benue,
South East and of course, the North
East where they are keeping watchful
eyes on Boko Haram insurgents. Yet
the military’s total number may not
be more than one-third of the total
number of policemen!”
Professor Ishaq Akintola, the
Director of MURIC who signed the
statement which was dated Monday,
11th March, 2019, lamented the loss
of lives in Saturday’s gubernatorial
and state assembly elections.
“It is regrettable that Nigerians
resorted to killing and maiming over
the resolution of political issues. We
condemn the killings and all forms of
violence which occurred during this
and other elections. It is callous,
brutish and barbaric”.
Akintola also had an axe to grind
with critics of military involvement in
elections.
“Those who are now criticizing the
Buhari regime for involving the
military in the 2019 elections are
either being insincere or they are
suffering from collective amnesia.
Former President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan invaded the State of Osun
with thousands of hooded soldiers
during the Osun election of 2014. He
repeated the same thing in Ekiti and
in the 2015 general elections. The
same people who are crying wolf
today applauded Jonathan’s use of
soldiers. What goes around comes
around.
“We are nonplussed that the
opposition complains of intimidation
today. Have they forgotten so soon?
Have they forgotten how Jonathan
used soldiers to out-Herod Herod in
2015? Soldiers were permanently
stationed in front of Chief Bola
Tinubu’s house at Bourdillon, Ikoyi
during the 2015 elections. Lai
Muhammed was arrested. The
security aides of opposition governors
were withdrawn by Jonathan.
“For appointing Sanusi Lamido as
Emir of Kano which was within the
rights and powers of the Kano State
Government, Jonathan ordered
security agents to lay siege at the
Emir's palace. For days, the Emir
operated from the Kano State
Government House.
“Jonathan withdrew the security
details attached to then Governor
Amaechi, grounded his plane forcing
Amaechi to drive himself from Kano
to Abuja.
Sitting Governors were prevented
from reaching a part of the country
to support the reelection of one of
their own because they were in the
opposition.
“Yet wailers have the effrontery to
complain of deployment of soldiers
to provide security during this 2019
elections. We contend that soldiers
deployed in this 2019 election were
there for security, unlike Jonathan’s
soldiers who were used to rig
election in Ekiti State. The
indubitable evidence of Ekitigate is
still in the archives. Jonathan’s
soldiers also ambushed daily
newspapers distributions. They were
seized and destroyed without
explanation.
MURIC also sought the
understanding of Britain and other
foreign governments on the issue of
military’s involvement in election
matters.
“We are appealing to our friends
from outside Nigeria. There is a
need to understand the peculiarities
of nations and their behavioral
patterns. Violence often
accompanies elections in most
African countries and the
governments of these countries have
to control it by inviting soldiers
without necessarily having ulterior
motives.
“On a final note, MURIC commends
the professional conduct of soldiers
and police personnel during the 2019
elections. We recommend the
continued use of soldiers to maintain
security during elections until
Nigeria comes of age in terms of
political maturity and self-
sufficiency in security. Those who
are wailing over the deployment of
military personnel in the 2019
elections only need to turn the pages
of history to 2014 and 2015”.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)


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This fool again

ZombieNation:
This fool again

The man is an APC support group leader and not a religious group leader like he claim to be

Just like Alkaeda, MURIC is a terrorist organization.

Nonsense group always supporting rubbish

matex97:
The man is an APC support group leader and not a religious group leader like he claim to be

Islam is a political movement with Sharia as their constitution.

Ishaq Akintola has a large following among Yoruba Muslim undergraduates in the Muslim Student Society

He represents the sorry state of subservience your average Yoruba Muslim has for Sokoto

chinjo:
Just like Alkaeda, MURIC is a terrorist organization.

CAN is also a terrorist organisation just as IPOB

Very soon afonja muslim go start suicide bombing

.
Muri is nothing but south West branch of boko harm.

All mudslim are terrorist all terrorist are mudslim

Aragbiji:
CAN is also a terrorist organisation just as IPOB

most times I just wonder who you guys are, what you eat, where you sleep, who feeds you and the type of Ewedu you gulp.

It's just a shame that you're alive.

Aragbiji:
CAN is also a terrorist organisation just as IPOB

It has pain u.... Muric is terrorism

Aragbiji:
CAN is also a terrorist organisation just as IPOB

Point one terrorist that is a Christian but all terrorists ever known and arrested in the world are Muslims.

YAHOO YAHOO MURIC AGAIN. SO YOU FORGOT WE ALSO HAVE CIVIL DEFENCE?