More Troubles For Terrorists, Bandits, And Others As Buhari Orders Military  ”To Send Them To Their Creator”

By sULeiman Umaru

Between 2009 and now, the Islamic Fundamentalist Group, BokoHaram and the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, a splinter Group of  the late Abubakar Sekau,  led BokoHaram which , have held the north east states of Borno, Yobe, and the  Bandits  Group, which have turned the west states of Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna , Katsina, President Muhammdu Buhari, home state, including Niger, Ibrahim Babangida, a retired Army General a former military President home state, a war zone, are in for trouble.

The iterrorist and their Bandits collaborators may have played into the hands of Buhari on Tuesday, July 4, 2022, when  the President’s  advance team of security guards, Department of State Security Service, DSS, and Journalists,   heading  to Daura, his home town, for the Eid Kabir, Festival,  were ambushed and attacked at Dutsinma, described as one of the Bandits Group strongholds  in the state .

The ISWAP terrorists may have also  sent a message  to the Nigerian Commander-In –Chief of the Armed Forces, C-In –C, same Tuesday, that they could  attack  any security  facility and get  away. They had attacked Kuje Custodial centre , located at the outskirts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and released 69 of  BokoHaram members  at the Kuje prison, to dare the government.

Buhari Visists Kuje Prison After ISWAP Attack And Release Of 69 of their Members In Custody

The Katsina state born Nigerian President may not have found the invasion of the Kuje Custodial centre funny as he was still in Abuja as at the time of the attack.   His anger knew no bounds as he was said to have  expressed disappointment  in the country’s security agencies  for their inability to stop the terrorists when he visited the prison premises to see things himself.

 Nigerians still believe that  Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun state and minister of Interior and Haliru Nababa,  Comptroller General of NCS, have explanation  to offer for the Kuje Custodial centre attack  by terrorists who audaciously  released their imprisoned members without any counter-attack to top them.

Many  had expected that when the Nigerian President  visited the  Kuje  premises  and  sought to find out from the   Prison Authorities the number of guards on duty as at the time of the ISWAP terrorists attack  that he will apply the sledge hammer on the appointees  for their negligence  but he failed to do so.

  Murtala Alyu,  Secretary General, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF had said that  ‘’the Nigerian President is  not ready to   sack any  of his appointees believed by Nigerians to have failed the country. According to him, Buhari  is’’ unable  told his  appointees responsible  for any deterioration  of the security situation of the country and some other  socio-economic  sectors  under their close watch’’,   noting that, ‘’the huge amount of money  and other resources being pumped  into the security agencies have been largely ineffective’’.

He insists  that  if what had  happened in Kuje prison, where terrorists could easily  gain access  despite the large  array of  security operatives on guard  had  happened elsewhere , ‘’it would  have led to massive reshuffle of political appointees,  forced resignations and possibly  prosecution of officials  that are negligent in the discharge of their duties, incompetent and plainly untrustworthy’’.

He averred that ‘’the usual response of the Nigerian President  to such tragedy including the Kuje prison attack was ‘’the familiar cocktail  platitude , of sermons, condemnations and yet more sermons’’.  

Gen.Irabor: CDS, Have A Bug Task At Hand

 Aware that Nigerians aree becoming impatient that terrorists and bandits  could strike  at any any government  security  facility , particular, the country’s custodial centres and release their members in prison may have  encouraged the Nigerian President to give a matching order to Lucky Irabor, an Army General, and Chief of Defense Staff,CDS, Lt. General Farouk Yahaya, Chief of Army Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Olayinka Amao, Chief of Air Staff, CAs, an  Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff , who recently had a security  meeting with him at the Presidential Villa ‘’ to be ready to wipe out  the terrorist, bandits and other criminal elements across the country  from the surface of the earth  with immediate effect  in order to bring  lasting peace  to the country and the African continent in General’’.

He may have decide ‘’ to unleash Nigerian’s military might on the terrorists and Bandits including other criminal elements across the country in their forest hideouts as a lesson to others. He   was said to have also vowed that ‘’the masterminds  of the Kuje Custodial centre attack and other  prison attacks  must not be allowed  to go  unpunished  but  must be sent to the creator’’.

He may have taken advantage of the graduation ceremony  of senior course  44  of the Armed Forces  Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna state , to speak out on Thursday, July 14, 2022, stating that ‘’ the recent attacks  by terrorists  and Bandits in the  different parts of the country  bear ‘’the hallmark  of national and trans-border  insurgency which is  a threat  trying to wreak  havoc  in Nigeria as well as  neigbouring countries of Niger Republic, TChad and the Central African country of Cameroon., one which must be quashed  once and for all’’.

Lt. Gen. Yahaya: CoAS

He was  said to have gladdened the heart of the service Chiefs when he said   that’’ the  government  will not fail in its responsibility  to provide  them  with the required guidance   and support  to ensure  that plan to wipe out the terrorists, Bandits and other criminal elements across the country succeeds’’. He was said to have cited one of  the specifics like training which he noted will ‘’focus primarily  on countering  security threats’’..

It was not surprising why he had said that ‘’combating  these relevant  security threats  effectively demands that African countries  continue to work together at all levels; be  it tactical, operational and strategic’’. He had cited the collaboration between the Armed  Forces of Nigeria,  Niger republic, TChad and Cameroon in a Multinational  Joint Task Force  ,MNJTF, operation  to combat the BokoHaram and ISWAP, insurgency  in the Lake Chad region , which currently  has General Irabor, Nigeria’s CDS as the General Officer Commanding, GOC.

Security experts  believe that if the Nigerian President had taken this bold initiative to wipe out the terrorists, Bandits and other criminal elements posing as a threat to the country’s security in his first term in office without  threating them  with kid gloves , the issue of terrorism and Banditry  in Nigeria would have been  a thing of the past.

Air Marshal Amao: CAS

  Recall that he had given his words I his first term in office   to put an end to terrorism and Banditry within five months  but that was how far he could go. There is no gain say the fact that instead of terrorism and Banditry declining in the country , it has grown in size that they have they  taken over Nigerian forests from where they  Launch their  targets  and  abduct individuals for ransom.

 Take for instance , the the emergence of the Ansaru , Terrorist Group which had attacked the Abuja-Kaduna Passenger Train on March 28, 2022, and abuducted 64 Passengers and killed eight others.  Note that one of the abducted Passengers was Sadiq Abdullahi, the son of Professor Ango Abdullahi, a one-time Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria and now Chairman , Northern Elders Forum, NEF,  and others  who said to have  been   released on compassionate ground  and Negotiations, which Mallam  Tukur Mamu, Media Consultant  to the controversial  Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, and self- appointed Negotiator between the government and the terrorists was single handedly  carried out by him ‘’ to facilitate the release of the victim’’s. It could not be ascertained   if any ransom was paid to the terrororists but going by past experience that they may not have agreed to release Abdullahi, Prof. Ango’s son and others without money exchanging hands.

In a related development, six BokoHaram Commanders who could no longer bear the heavy bombardment of the Nigerian Air Force with the support of the ground troops in the Lake Chad region of Borno state were said to have surrendered to Nigerian troops in Gwoza, one of the flashpoint local government areas in the state on Wednesday July 13, 20222, to escape being killed.  That much was confirmed  by Bernard  Onyeuko, an Army Major-General, and spokesperson  of the Defense Headquarers.  

Super 29,Tucano Fighter Jet: Deadly

 Major – GeneralOnyeuko Defense Headquarters spoke spokesperson,  had said that the six BokoHaram top Commanders could surrender  because troops of Operation Hadin Kai, had taken the battle to the Islamic Fundamentalist Group  and ISWAP  enclaves  with more Coordinated Operations that there is no hiding place for any of the Commanders any longer without being fishing out or killed’’.

BokoHaram Commanders Who Surrendered To Nigeria Troops Recently

He gave out the names of the six BokoHaram Commanders who had had surrendered to Nigeian troops as  Mallam Mala Hassan, nicknamed Walli,  because of his expertise in handling weapons,  Ali Magadali, popular,  Munzur,  Musa Bashir, dubbed Chief ANUR,  Buba Dahiru, who goes by the name  Munzur,  Jafar Hamma, KAID and Abbali, NAKIB.  Some of the BokoHaram Commanders were said to have had their root from THESE terrorist Groups: Ansar Dine, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, JNIM, Islamic State West Africa, ISWA, Islamic State  Greater Sahara, ISGS, Movement for Unity, and Jihad in West Africa  in  Mali.

Security experts believe that if the military keeps to the mandate given to them to send the terrorists, Bandits and other Criminal elements posing as threat to Nigeria security, and fully deploying  the A 29  Super Tucano fight Jets and other fighter Jets  procured from the North American country of the United states, US, and other fighter aircrafts and equipment obtained from Russian Federation before the advent of war with Ukraine, the days of the terrorists, Bandits and Criminal elements  across the country  are numbered.

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