June 20, 2026
•A three-pronged strategy for your consideration!
Poor Nigerians. These days, ordinary people are one wrong journey away from a brutal death. General Rabe is now dead. Who knows what his family went through to recover his remains? May his soul rest in peace.
The lessons from Rabe’s killing are for the living. When he served as military spokesman, he did his best to minimise the security crisis and lionise the military. His job was to portray the military and government in the best possible light. But after soothing the populace , perhaps generals should tell their civilian bosses the truth . The current strategy isn’t working .All the bad people in Nigeria own rifles. Good people are not allowed to have them. The politicians own the police and army who protect them at home and on the move . The ordinary Nigerian is a hapless prey. Even retired generals cannot keep rifles in a country where every thug has easy access to one. If General Rabe had possessed a rifle, he might have died a more dignified death. Instead, he was taken like a chicken and slaughtered by rag-tag bandits while the nation wallowed in utter helplessness.
For over sixteen years, since these insurgencies began, our governments have repeated the same unworkable strategies and served us the same fickle hopes, the same fatuous promises, and the same concocted excuses. The same trite platitudes . It is either “Libya” or “Global phenomenon.” Otherwise, it is “We are winning” or “We must live with it because all nations now do.” And sometimes, near elections , the blame is heaped on the political opposition.
