I have listened to two interviews with some terrorists from Northwest Nigeria, and these are my deduction and suggestions for the insecurity in Nigeria.
The issues:
The terrorists claimed that security forces are only attacking innocent people, not the armed terrorists.
They claimed that the Nigerian security forces have never attacked them and they cannot dare to attack them.
They said, they sometimes sympathize with their captives and their families, but some of the captives do not deserve sympathy.
They claimed that the vigilantes also engage in crimes and excesses.
They said, some of the armed gangs are willing to repent and reconcile, but some are not willing.
If the government will do justice, they are willing to drop their arms, they are conscious that what they are doing is bad.
They said, one of the conditions for peace is to provide education for their people so that they can equally have opportunities.
The majority of their people are not educated, they said. If a Fulani person is educated, even if he does not have cattle, he can survive.
Now, the reason why they have taken arms is that they were sent out of their farmlands by vigilantes and now they can’t rear their cattle, and they don’t have education, in this situation the gun is the only way out.
The terrorists have different groups, and they live inside the forest. They come out to rob shops and steal food and go back to their hideout. Some people supply them with arms.
They take drugs and substances before they undertake any operation.
They recruit new gang members daily. They promise them financial incentives.
The solutions
There are two approaches to the issue: Curbing and Preventing
Curbing: this involves proactiveness and aggression prior to and after any attack. This involves aggressive use of the arm to prevent, repel or revenge any imminent attack. There should be a military aggression and footage tracing of the terrorists, immediately after any attack.
Excessive use of military force should be deployed in the confirmed hideouts of the terrorists. Deployment of technology, surveillance cameras that detect human movements and voices. Tracking of mobile phone communication and use of auto drones and unmanned fire jets on the suspected areas.
Technological Security controls, surveillance, and highway patrons, as well as heavy security escorts, should be deployed on the highways for public use. The President should be visiting the attacked areas to see the level of damages and sympathize with the families and ginger the security personnel to avenge all attacks. There should be some media broadcast on each attack and the subsequent actions of the security personnel.
Preventing: Population management: This includes effective database management of Nigerians and monitoring of all entry and exit to and from Nigeria, Family education, and population to resources matching policy.
Our capacity to provide educational, medical, housing, nutrition, and security needs of our population should match with the size of the population so that no one will be lacking the basic needs of living.
If these things are not properly implemented, we will keep producing another disgruntled set of people who will continue to use arms to show their frustrations and ignorance.
Ahmed Adamu, PhD
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