PREMIUM TIMES believes that it is therefore incumbent on NSA Ribadu to develop a new security paradigm that will reverse this ugly landscape.error-induced mass killings, banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria, especially in the north, have become the monstrosities of our time, grabbing countless news headlines within and outside the shores of the country. Nonetheless, scant regard, if any, is being paid to the reasons why these phenomena have become intractable.
However, the most important factors in our view, are the neglect of education in the north over the years by political leaders, tolerance of extremist sects within the religious space, and the rise in ethnic profiling and militia groups. All these point to critical defects in the structure of the Nigerian state.
Fighting terrorism without cutting off its financing vessels is analogous to shadow-boxing. This is what Nigeria seems to be doing with its incredible aloofness in prosecuting the 400 terror financiers that Intelligence from the United Arab Emirates and the US helped it to unravel in April 2021, under the Muhammadu Buhari regime. In one fell swoop, $782,000 was transferred by Boko Haram terror cells in Dubai to Nigeria.
Prosecuting enablers of terror is part of getting to the roots of the rot, besides enthroning good governance, which will fight poverty, as emphasised by the president in his address at the summit.