Much ado about international conspiracy

SOME Nigerians blame the West and its allies for failing to express disgust at the lives lost in the country due to the insurgency, especially given the fact thatWestern leaders united around France and its people over the terrorist attacks in that country recently.

What I find bemusing is that these Nigerians do not blame their government that has failed to provide internal security as well as security around the borders of the country to protect the citizenry.

A country that cannot provide security for its citizens cannot aspire to greatness. A nation that plays politics with the affairs of its troops instead of convoking a bi-partisan meeting to discuss and improve soldiers’ issues is not ready to fight insurgency.

The proactive measures put in place by the West are a pointer to how these countries value life and humanity. Even countries like Jordan have taken a proactive stance to provide security for their citizens and crush insurgency.

Jordan’s Interior Minister was quoted to have said a few years ago that his country  was going after Islamic State group militants wherever they were and planned to “wipe them out completely,” and that country had intensified air attacks on strategic militants sites in alliance with US-led military coalition.

This was after the militants posted a film online of them burning a Jordanian pilot to death in a cage. I accused my British friend then for the apathy that his country showed in the affairs of my nation, especially in the area of defence and intelligence in 2015 and she said to me, “Just to reassure you, in the West, we are aware of what is happening in Nigeria and we do care.

“The reaction to Paris was extraordinary but the difference, in part, is that we could go there.

“The BBC showed satellite images of the two towns on the Nigerian border that seem to have been wiped out, but it wasn’t possible to physically reach the spot, hence satellite images. And then after the atrocities, the UK media also keeps the missing schoolgirls in the public eye.”

The West might not have shown total commitment to the security challenges we currently face, perhaps because they need to see Nigeria’s leaders display uneasiness when the lives of its citizens are snatched away, just like those in the West do.

seeking justice and they accused each other of genocide. I wonder what charge they might have pressed for, if their death toll had reached 13,000 lives and counting.

Nigeria’s leaders need to focus more on appreciating her citizens, be pro actively-accountable to their needs, that way insurrection might be defeated.

This is important because we are currently suffering from the consequences of sluggishness and as always, we are a country of solicitors. We beg bad people to drop their firepower.