Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Extension of State of Emergency- The Politics and bait of arm forces act.

Extension of State of Emergency- The Politics and bait of arm forces act. The President should be very careful taking the bait being flaunted by the national assembly members to rely on the armed forces act to continue deployment of soldiers in the troubled North East without the approval of the vital state of emergency. Be aware that for instance that the responses and body language of Northern elders and institutions are not helpful in fact one may say that their responses are treacherous. You really have to be careful dealing with this bunch of crazy persons and institutions. For instance one would wonder what the Sultan of Sokoto was up to by saying that why there was bomb blast in Kano Mosque was to stampede the Northern politicians elders and institutions to permit the President to get approval extension of state of emergency! What is the Sultan of Sokoto saying? Is he saying that the Presidency would send Boko Haram members to go and kill scores of people to kill innocent northerners just to make the North to ask of state of emergency and lets assume Boko haram did that; the question is would book haram conspire against itself by ensuring a state of emergency aginst itself!? Or was the Sultan of Sokoto saying that president Jonathan sent terrorists to go and kill people in kano Mosque to enable his secure a state OF EMMERGENCY!? These are contradictory and unthinkable assertions. Does this mean then that on one hand the Sultan wants the carnage in the north and on the other he does not want the President to stop their dear Boko Haram! Probably, secretly the powers that be in the North apart from using Boko Haram to unseat President Jonathan are also using the Boko haram to do a religious cleansing in the North! Now if the president takes the crazy bait being offered by the national assembly and something goes wrong as things are bound to go bad as hubris law loudly states; there would be consequences both on the military and particularly on the President. The President should also be mindful that perhaps some elements in the North are planning to use the present scenario to drive the security situation vis avis the 2015 election to the ultimate point of asking for a transitional government! Because where the security situation gets out of control to the extent that elections in a large number of states becomes impossible as a result of insurgency and sporadic bomb blasts, prison breaks kidnappings and murders in different parts of Nigeria and the term of President Jonathan runs out then there won’t be any other alternative than a transitional government! In that case what the North had long wanted through the door would be most conveniently secured through the back door! The President should be very careful to trade these land mines! Finally I want to warn the President to do all he can to contain the insurgents and since some bunch of terrible Nigerians are bent on using the insurgency to drive him out of office he se should expect the frequency and intensity of insurgent activities to rise proportionately as 2015 draws near. The President should in fact must put all the necessary measures to contain the insurgents and I advice stiff usage of military air planes to deliver devastating air strikes since the air force still have 100% of the nation’s air spade except what the insurgents could do with anti air craft. I believe that the air force should be able to spot track and contain roving insurgents. Igwegbe Lawrence Emeka

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