Opinion on war against bandits, Terrorists---By Garba


No matter the kinetic approach deployed by Govt, even if they shutdown everything in addition to telecoms services; using bombs and guns is always a temporary solution. In fact, it may help escalate the situation beyond expectations as opposed to quenching it.

We constantly failed to learn from history in Africa.

The worst option from any country is to seek to confront insurgency within its borders with kinetic approach, when in actual facts, the issues keeps recurring due to lack of justice in addition to some politicians failure to lower their guards and deeply get involved in addressing the root causes of the problems bewildering the remote communities.

Govt must make conscious effort to mainstream the local communities into the solution to the problem, integrate the local native authorities, connect their leaders to the chain of solutions to the problems.

What happened to our masu anguwa? Dagatai, hakimai , masu jimilla? Sarakuna? Etc, what happened to their traditional methods of community surveillance and security? Why can’t they get empowered to secure their communities by the overall support of the government?

Do you ever think a soldier who cannot speak local language, cannot understand local culture, cannot connect to local terrain, be able provide solutions to insecurities in the area where criminals operates all thier lives, from birth to present?

I know some of you will say that some of the traditional rulers are also involved in the conspiracies. Be that as it may, did we ever ask why? Or we are too proud to ask? People get to do things out of fear or greed. Did we know whether they are afraid of their lives because the state is incapable of giving them security or that they derive some benefit from the insecurities? How can the Goverment fit in and neutralize such fear or contain such greed, both of which are human natural impulses?

The government should avoid deploying temporary measures, using kinetic means and invest more effort in a more permanent way out. Extreme kinetic approach may further escalate the situation to a civil unrest, as it often happens in many countries in the world.

If the 1-2 billion dollars budgeted annually to the military can be used in building a strong conflict resolution mechanism by mainstreaming the local communities deeply into the solution to our insecurities rather than treated as collateral damage, we would by now, not be talking of banditry or kidnapping or terrorism, but perhaps who is directly responsible and how he/she/they can face justice.

Admittedly is it hard to pursue this route, but the government need to get serious, lower their egos, and deliberately confront this issue with a more permanent solution.


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