President Donald Trump And His Nigerian Ephialtes Eurydemus, Judas Iscariot And Vidkun Quisling Supporters By S. Kadiri

[Salimonu Kadiri]

On October 31, 2025, the President of U.S.A., Donald Trump, declared Nigeria as a 'Country of Particular Concern' because according to him, Nigerian Government is allowing Islamists to commit genocide on Christians in Nigeria. Mr. Trump said, ".... the U.S.A., may very well go into that now disgraced country, 'guns-a-blazing,' to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians." Immediately after the supposedly Christian Crusader, Donald Trump, declared his intention to invade Nigeria militarily, a set of Nigerian Ephialtes Eurydemus, Judas Iscariot and Vidkun Quisling, are joyfully expecting the invading forces of Trump's army in Nigeria.

There is an adage in Yoruba language that says, "It is with the help of an enemy within the house that the enemy outside can kill one (Bí ikú ilé ò pa ni, ti  ita kò lè pani). There were many traitors and betrayers in history, but three are very outstanding. At the battle of Thermopylae, August7, 480 BC, between Greece and Persia, the former was defeated by the latter because Ephialtes Eurydemus betrayed his Greek people to the Persians. Ephialtes had been promised a personal reward by Emperor Xerxes of Persia. As fate would have it, the Persians were defeated in the next battle at Salamis, and  Ephialtes fled to Thessaly where the greatest traitor in ancient history died mysteriously. Next in line of the greatest traitors in history was Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus Christ to the Romans after being bribed with 30 pieces of Silver. (Luke 22:3-6; 47-48). Similar to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus was the Norwegian traitor, Major Vidkun Quisling, who betrayed his country by facilitating German Nazi Army occupation of Norway during World War II causing the King of Norway to flee into exile in Britain. It appears as if the history of traitors is about to repeat itself in Nigeria as people with the blood of Ephialtes, Judas and Quisling, running in their arteries are working vigorously to make the invasion of Nigeria, by Trump's army, possible under the pretext of protecting Nigerian Christians against purported Islamic genocides.

Information in the public domain shows that the Christian Crusader, Donald Trump was in wedlock with a woman named Ivana when he was adulterously hooking up with another woman named Marla Marples. Thereby, the Crusader, Donald Trump, contravened God's Biblical injunction as commanded in Exodus 20:14, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Having committed adultery, the Christian Crusader, Donald Trump, proceeded to violate the order of Jesus Christ as contained in Mathew 19: 6, "What God hath joined together let not man put asunder." Amazingly, Donald Trumps regards the female gender as chewing gum which he could chew for a while and when it is no longer tasteful, he would spit it out and pick a fresh one. In his chewing-gum-love lifestyle, Donald Trump later spat out Marla Marples to pick a new chewing gum in 1998, which was in the person of a fashion-girl named Melania. As if it were a cheese market (taste before you buy) Donald Trump tasted Melania from 1998 till January 22, 2005, when he officially got married to her some months before she celebrated her 25^th birthdate. At that time, Melania was just 7 years, 8 months, and 4 days older than the first son of Donald Trump, named Donald Trump Jr., born 31 December 1977. In view of the age difference between Donald Trump Sr., and his wife Melania, if he were to live in Sweden he would have been ridiculed, in the Swedish parlance, as being afflicted with "Gubbsjuka", meaning old-man-sickness, characterised as old men's lecherous interest in much more younger women or girls, which, usually is a symptom of mid-life-crisis.  

After the Presidential election in the USA in 2015, it was publicly discussed that soon after Melania gave birth to a baby boy named Barron on 20 March 2006, Donald Trump had illicit sex with a porn-artist-woman, named Stormy Daniels, whose silence during the election campaigns was purchased with $100,000 (US dollars). Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, gave evidence to substantiate the visit of Mr Trump to the whore-artist, Stormy Daniel. Stormy Daniel on her part even wrote a book about her sexual engagement with President Donald Trump in which she disclosed that Donald Trump had more hairs on his testicle than on his head. Since Mr Trump has never sued Stormy Daniel for defamation of character because of the contents of the book she published about her sexual encounter with Mr. Trumps five years ago, her claims in that book remain unchallenged and true. What kind of a Christian would leave his wife, a fresh nursing mother, to go and hook up with a harlot?

The home origin of Islam and Christianity (Judaism) is closer to Nigeria (Africa) than the USA and European countries. Therefore, Nigerians, like most Africans, are much more aware of the relationships between Christianity and Islam. That is why we know that it is not accidental that the holy book of the Christians, Bible, contains five alphabets just like Qur'an the holy book of the Islams; Mosque, the Islamic house of prayer contains six alphabets just like the Christian house of prayer, Church. The two faiths, Christianity and Islam have, mostly, in common the same persons as prophets. Thus, the Islamic Ibrahim is the same person called Abraham in Christianity; the same person called Moses by the Christians is called Musa in Islam; the same person called Isaac by the Christians is called Ishaq in Islam; the same person called Ismael by the Christians is called Ismail in Islam; the Islamic Yacoub is the same person called Jacob in Christianity; the Christian Joseph is the same person called Yousef in Islam; the person called Miryam/Maryam in Islam is the same person called Mary/Maria in Christianity; and the person called Jesus by the Christians is called Isa by the Islamists; etc. It is for these reasons that the believers of the two religions in Nigeria always interact peacefully and they often intermarry across religious faiths. Remarkably, and long before Bola Ahmed Tinubu, an Islamist by faith, ever dreamt of becoming President of Nigeria, he got married to a woman who is not only a Christian but a Pastor and as of today, she is still a Pastor waking up at 4 a.m., to prepare food for her Muslim husband during Ramadan! 

Banditry, terrorism, kidnapping for ransom, herders/farmers clashes and insurgency were birthed in Nigeria when the political and military leaderships heartlessly looted public funds and impoverished the masses. The killings in Nigeria have nothing to do with religions, Islamists murdering Christians, as the world has been told by a self-proclaimed Christian salvationist with counterfeit-brown-hairs, dog-pointed long nose and counterfeit-brown-skin. The present U.S.A., originated from the genocide committed against the American aborigines  by the forefathers of the Christian salvationist from Europe. It is just very clear that God never created and placed Europeans in America, but in Europe. Therefore, before Donald Trump can see genocide in Nigeria, if there is any, he as a professed Christian must follow what the bible says in Mathew 7:5 "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." One cannot inherit and keep a country obtained through genocide and then complain against genocide somewhere else. Of course, there is no genocide in Nigeria but Donald Trump who professes to be a Christian has chosen to disobey God who commanded as follows in Exodus 20: 16, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour; 23:1, Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be unrighteous witness; 23:2, Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment;  23:7, Keep thee far from false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked." The Christian Donald Trump must also obey the command of God as stipulated in Leviticus 19:11, "Ye shalt not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another; and in 19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him...." 

Whenever, Western World led by the U.S.A., ordered Nigerian leaders to jump, instead of querying why they should jump and for what purpose, Nigerian leaders would ask enthusiastically, "How high should we jump?" As the pseudo-Christian Donald Trump accused the Nigerian government of allowing Islamic genocide on Christians in Nigeria, the Federal Government quickly set up what it called, "US - Nigeria Joint Working Group to Deepen Collaboration in Tackling Security Challenges in Nigeria." President Tinubu's National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, led a group of seven other officials to the USA towards the end of November to find solution to the problems of insecurity in Nigeria. The history of how insecurity began, especially, in Northern Nigeria, is well known by Nigerians who followed events as they occurred. I will come back later to discuss the group of "Shadow Boxers" led by Nuhu Ribadu to the United States. Following the murder of the leader of a Muslim Sect, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad, Muhammed Yusuf, in a Maiduguri police custody in 2009, his followers resorted to violence, not only in Borno State but also in Adamawa and Yobe State. The President of Nigeria then was Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua.   The violence raged until Yar 'Adua's death in early May 2010, and continued when President Goodluck Jonathan succeeded the late Yar 'Adua. As the violence continued, President Jonathan reshuffled his Service Chiefs on Sept. 8, 2010, whereby Lieutenant General Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika became the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). However, violence continued in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, causing Federal Government to declare emergency in the three states on May 26, 2013. Declaration of State of emergency implied that dusk to dawn curfew enforced by the combined Armed Forces existed in the three states. Surprisingly, the Muslim Sect, now named Boko Haram, by the Federal government launched a broad day attack on 79 Composite Group Air Force Base, Maiduguri International Air Port, and some Army Locations in Borno State, on December 2, 2013. After the attack, Boko Haram withdrew orderly to their bases without being countered by the Nigerian Armed Forces. Once again President Goodluck Jonathan reshuffled his Service Chiefs and his Ijaw kinsman, Lieutenant General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah, became Chief of Army Staff with effect from January 16, 2014, instead of the compulsorily retired Lieutenant General Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika.

Between 2013 and 2015 Boko Haram controlled vast area of territory bigger than Royal Kingdom of Denmark in Northern Nigeria and Nigerians wondered what had happened to the Nigerian Armed Forces, especially the Nigerian Army that was known for bravery as demonstrated in Congo, Sierra Loan and Liberia. When Buhari took over the Presidency in 2015, he appointed Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the EFCC. Believing that President Muhammadu Buhari really wanted to end corruption in Nigeria, Ibrahim Magu went on to investigate the Service Chiefs (in the Army, Airforce and Navy). It turned out that all the Service Chiefs between 2010 and 2015 looted money appropriated to buy weapons, recruit and train soldiers. Consequently, former Service Chiefs were openly canvasing for plead bargaining, that is to say, return part of the looted military funds in exchange for freedom from prosecution. Ibrahim Magu was not pardoned by the association of military and civilian looters of public funds in Nigeria and he was haunted out of office with the consent of the docile Buhari. Beside Magu, Kemi Adeosun was a UK-born and trained accountant who returned to Nigeria to help her fatherland. As Buhari's Minister of Finance, she conducted biometric exercise on the personnel of the Nigerian Police force which revealed that 80,115, out of 371, 800 police personnel on payroll were ghost police. She disclosed this to the public after the Federal Executive Council meeting of Wednesday, 21 March 2018. She was subsequently haunted out of office and even if there was a Court order ordering the Inspector General of Police to publish the names of the Ghost Police Officers, the court's order was never obeyed.

It is understandable that when funds appropriated for the Armed Forces have been stolen by its leaders, insurgents and bandits would have safe-grounds to operate freely. On March 12, 2021, the online Nigerian Premium Times reported that President Buhari's National Security Adviser, Major General Emeritus, Babagana Monguno, had said that billions allocated for purchase of arms under Buhari had been stolen. Https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/448455-billions-allocated-for-purchase-of-arms-under-buhari-stolen...  

 The London Economist of Friday 23 October 2021, published an article on Nigeria's security deterioration and remarked, "Nigeria's army is mighty on paper. But many of its soldiers are 'ghosts,' who exist on payroll, and much of its equipment is stolen and sold to insurgents (p.14)." Speaking at the Arms Destruction Exercise organised by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) in Abuja, on Thursday, October 17, 2024, the National Security Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, was reported to have said that "a significant number of illicit arms currently used in criminal activities in Nigeria originated from government stockpiles. He linked the proliferation of these weapons to corrupt elements within the security agencies, which facilitate their transfer to non-state actors including terrorists and bandits."  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/10/ribadu-officers-must-halt-gun-sales-to-criminals-as-nigeria-destroys-2400arms/      

The fifth columnists within the Nigerian Security Forces are responsible for the proliferation of kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria. The Security Officers claim not to know where the kidnappers are but Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has been going in and out of the Savannah grassland, often fraudulently referred to as forest, to negotiate with kidnappers (bandits). And the Security Officers belittle themselves when they fail to track deliverers of millions of naira in cash, motorcycles, bread, milk to kidnappers. Did Nigerians not hear Governor Babagana Zulum accuse senior military officers of taking over fish trade in Baga and as such they did not want insurgency to end? Let me end this submission with the following link.

Http://www.tori.ng/news/167399/my-abductors-collected-n3m-bread-milk-malt-as-rans.html 

 S. Kadiri

  

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

For all his limitations, Trump's threats are among the best things that have happened to Nigeria.

It has provoked a lot of soul searching in  Nigeria and action from the fed govt.

Things were even worse in Buhari's time, auded by his own strategies in aid of terrorism, but it has taken us about 9 to ten years to reach clarity on these issues.

Toyin

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[Mr. E. B. Jaiyeoba]

Dear Adepoju,

The surprising thing to me is that after Trump's threat, banditry suddenly escalated in Nigeria and again it was after the failed coup attempt. We need to interrogate the sequence of banditry occurrences and related events after Trump's threat. Is it possible to do this? Baba Kadiri is right, the external and internal enemies are surely collaborating and succeeding against Nigeria. Who are the external and internal enemies of Nigeria???

Thank you.

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[Dr. Oohay]

This rhetorical-circumlocutory narrative appears to sidetrack or even evade the serious issue of certain real “insecurities” within Naija. Safety 4All her citizens should be a number 1 concern for any responsible and responsive ijoba (aka “govament”).

Oohay

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

 If Dr Oluwatoyin Adepoju is not a black Nigerian like me, I would have accused him of being a racist. This is because he seems to believe, as the white world led by the U.S.A., that typical Black Africans are incapable of knowing or identifying their problems unless they are told by their White masters. So stupid they (the White Western World) think we, Black Africans, are that we are incapable of knowing where the shoes we are wearing are pinching us, until they who claim to know what is happening inside the shoes we wear, tell us. Amazingly, Dr Adepoju wrote, "... Trump's threats are among the best things that have happened to Nigeria. It has provoked a lot of soul searching in Nigeria and action from the fed govt." The said Mr Trump's threats were premised on the false belief that there is an ongoing genocide being committed by Islamists in Nigeria against the Nigerian Christians. The three main primary causes of massive and daily, homicide in Nigeria are insurgencies, farmers/archaic-nomadic-herders clashes, and banditry/kidnapping for ransom.

Looking back at the insurgency that started simultaneously in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, in year 2009 by "Jama'Atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda' Awati Wal-Jihad = People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad" one will discover that it had nothing to do with religion. The Sect which was created in 2002 under the leadership of Mohammed Yusuf had as its goals social and economic development of their Community through collective self-help. When Mohammed Yusuf and some top leaders of the Sect were arrested in 2009 and murdered while in police custody, other members of the Sect went into hiding only to emerge later to attack police and military institutions in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States. It was President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua's government which prejudicially named the Sect, 'Boko Haram' and which has fraudulently been translated to, 'Western Education Is Forbidden'. If the word 'Boko' in Hausa language translates to 'Book' in English language, and 'Haram' which is an Arabic word corresponds to 'abomination' or forbidden in English language, then the correct translation of the compound word, 'Boko Haram' into English should be 'Book Is Forbidden'. If book is forbidden, then the authority issuing the prohibition must state which book is forbidden or prohibited. In fact, since the Bible and the Qur'an are books too, it will not make sense to say 'Book is Forbidden' at least, if it is the Islamic Sect that is decreeing the order. 'Boko' cannot and must not be translated to mean 'Western Education' but for those who are accustomed to associating backwardness to Islam it is a clever way to demean the Islamic Sect in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States in Nigeria as a group which is against Western Education, the same Western education that has produced weapons and ammunition with which the Sect is fighting the government. 

Concerning the military uprising of the Islamic Sect that was mischievously called Boko Haram, it was clear from the beginning that contrary to the assertion of some ethnic baiters that the Islamic Sect was propped up by some Northerners who were against President Goodluck Jonathan, the Sect, which was formed in 2002 when Jonathan was still Vice Governor in Bayelsa, began their struggle against the government in 2009, when Goodluck Jonathan was still a Vice President to President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua, a core Northerner. In fact, the Islamic Sect's rebellion was ongoing when Goodluck Jonathan contested and won the Presidential in 2011 election. Why was the Nigerian military unable to quell the so-called Boko Haram's rebellion? 

In order to answer the preceding question, a knowledge of the composition of the Service Chiefs as constituted by President Goodluck Jonathan with the effect from 8 September 2010 is necessay. Chief of Defence Staff was Admiral Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim; Chief of Army Staff was Lieutenant General Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika; Vice Admiral Dele Joseph Ezeoba was Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Marshal Alex Subundu Badeh was Chief of Air Staff. With the combined strength of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force it was expected that the rag-tag Boko Haram rebels would not be a problem to crush. However, Boko Haram began to extend their attacks to Abuja outside Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States. Therefore, the National Assembly declared a State of Emergency in the three states and President Goodluck Jonathan signed it into law on May 26, 2013. The State of emergency implied dusk to dawn curfew which was to be enforced by the Armed Forces. Yet, on December 2, 2013, Boko Haram could in a broad day light launch attack on 79 Composite Group Air Force Base, Maiduguri International Air Port and some Army locations in Borno State. President Jonathan reacted by reshuffling his Service Chiefs with effect from January 16, 2014. Thus, Air Marshal Alex Subundu Badeh took over as Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Tobiah Jacob Minimah became Chief of Army Staff, Real Admiral Usman O. Jibrin became Chief of Naval Staff, and Air Vice Marshal Adesola Nunayon Amosu took over as Chief of Air Staff. As if Boko Haram wanted to demean the new Service Chiefs, 200  Boko Haram fighters in 12 Hilux pickup trucks, in a broad day light, on March 14, 2014, filed in to attack *Giwa Barracks, in Maiduguri, the Capital of Borno State.* The ability of Boko Haram to move around freely without being detected by security forces with heavy military hardware and pass through all military checkpoints under the State of Emergency and to retreat safely back to their base must certainly give rise to the question, where were the Nigerian Army and Air Force? Not done, on April 14, 2014, Boko Haram filed into Chibok to kidnap 276 girl-students and transported them to Savannah Grassland often wrongly referred to as Sambisa forest, without encountering any challenge from the Nigerian Armed Forces.

When Muhammadu Buhari became President of Nigeria in 2015, he retired  all the Service Chiefs he inherited from President Jonathan. The highest ranked member of the Service Chiefs was Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Subundu Badeh. On Thursday, 30 July 2015, at his ceremonial pull out from Service held at a Senior Military Barrack in Abuja, the CDS was reported to have said that he presided over a military, that was ill-equipped and its troops poorly motivated. Nigerian Newspapers, Daily Trust, Leadership and Punch, of Friday, 31 July 2015 carried the news as their main headlines. How could CDS and Air Marshal Alex Subundu Badeh have presided over an ill-equipped military and poorly motivated troops in view of the high Defence and Security Budgets both at Federal and States' levels? What happened to the appropriated and paid out funds for Defence and Security? 

Before answering the above questions, l want to assert that Nigerian Public Servants, civilians and the armed forces are highly remunerated when compared to the Gross Domestic Products of Nigeria and the low purchasing power of vast majority of Nigerians. This is so in order to induce patriotism and attract maximum efficiency in them. However, the top Nigerian military officers and civil servants have never been satisfied with their exorbitant salaries and allowances. Therefore, they device all kinds of methods to steal approved defence and economic development funds for the nation. While space will not permit me to narrate details of how defence and security funds were stolen by each Service Chief between 2012 and 2015, it will suffice to recall part of the information released by the EFCC under the leadership of Ibrahim Magu in 2016, concerning the looting of Defence Funds by Nigeria's  Ex-Chief of Defence Staff at that time.

Ibrahim Magu, believing that President Muhammadu Buhari wanted to stop the looting of public funds by the military and civil officials went into action to investigate immediate past officials. On February 24, 2016, a search was conducted at the residence of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, located at No.6 Ogun River Street, Maitama, Abuja. One million US Dollar was recovered in cash. Among the documents recovered was that of an ongoing purchase of a Shopping Mall at a cost of 1.4 billion naira cash for Prince and Princess Multiservice Ltd owned by the former CDS. Between November 2012 and November 2013, former CDS Badeh deposited $900,000 US dollars into his personal Visa Gold Account at First Bank. It was also discovered that between January and December 2013, the CDS and Air Marshal Emeritus, Badeh, used to transfer the sum of Five-hundred and fifty-eight million, two hundred thousand naira (N 558.2 million) every month from the Nigerian Air Force Account into his private Company's account after payment of Air Force Personnel Salaries. The name of his private Company was IYALIKAM NIGERIA Ltd. In all, the EFCC arraigned CDS and Air Marshal Emeritus, Alex Subundu Badeh for stealing N8 billion from the Nigerian Air Force Account of which N4 billion in cash and some property were recovered in a plead bargaining process. Others who stole defence money were Lieutenant General and Chief of Army Staff Emeritus, Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika (N4.5 billion of which the EFCC recovered N29 million); Lieutenant General and Chief of Army Staff Emeritus, Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah (N13.9 billion of which the EFCC recovered N4.8 billion in cash and some property); Chief of Air Staff and Air Marshal Emeritus, Adesola Amosu (N21.4 billion out of which the EFCC recovered N2.8 billion cash, 28 properties and three vehicles); and Chief of Naval Staff and Admiral Emeritus, Dele Joseph Ezeoba, forfeited to the Federal government, on April 6, 2017, the sum of N1.825 billion being the remaining part of the N2.387 billion transferred from the Nigerian Navy account to a company called Chukwuka Onwuchekwa and Aquila Leasing Ltd which had no contract with the Nigerian Navy. EFCC found out that the only signatory to the account of that company was Ex-Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Dele Joseph Ezeoba. It is self-evident that when the Service Chiefs looted defence and security funds as EFCC under Magu revealed, Boko Haram's could not have had any problem in operating freely as their successful attacks on military targets in Maiduguri on December 2, 2013; and March 14, 2014 showed besides kidnapping of about 300 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno State. Https://www.premiumtimesng.com/investigationspecia-reports/268123-when-general-turn-bandits-inside-corruption-nigeria-security-contracting.html That was 15 May 2018 and in March 2020, And the online Nigerian Vanguard disclosed another information through the following link, https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/how-defence-ministers-chief-of-staff-perm-sec-diverted-and-shared-n35bn-arms-cash/   

As stated before, EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu and twelve of his associates who exposed the treasonable crime of the Service Chiefs were haunted out of office for their sin of 'publicly disgracing Nigeria's big men in military uniform'. As of date the Service Chiefs under the late President Muhammadu Buhari are yet to be probed by the EFCC, perhaps out of fear that the fate which befell Ibrahim Magu and his colleagues should not befall them. However, there are clear indications that the plundering of the nation's defence and security funds by the Service Chiefs continued under the eight years rule of President Muhammadu Buhari as published by online Premium Times Nigeria of March 12, 2021 and in which the National Security Adviser to Buhari and Major General Emeritus, Babagana Monguno, claimed that billions allocated for purchase of arms under Buhari were stollen. Reflecting on Babagana Monguno's revelation, one has to remember that Buhari's Chief of Army Staff was Director of Procurement when Lt.-General Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika was Chief of Army Staff under Jonathan's Presidency.  The murdering insurgency that began under President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua and which continued under Jonathan, and Buhari regimes up to the present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had nothing to do with Religion. Insurgencies will continue to thrive as long as the Service Chiefs are walking and working in collaboration with insurgents because the Service Chiefs are getting a lot of money to fight insurgents. If Nigeria's Service Chiefs should stop seeing insurgency as means of personal enrichment, insurgents will be crushed in a jivy. Nigerian government does not need partnership to make the Nigerian Service Chiefs to understand that they must be contented with their official salaries and emoluments and to stop syphoning funds set aside for the defence and security of the nation.

Commenting on my previous article with the above title Dr Oohay wrote, "This rhetorical-circumlocutory narrative appears to sidetrack or even evade the serious issue of certain real *insecurities* within naija. Safety 4All her citizens should be a number 1 concern for any responsible and responsive ijoba (aka government)." Without stating what were certain real insecurities within Nigeria that I sidetracked or evaded, Dr Oohay proceeded to pretend as if he was introducing a new idea for the safety of all Nigerian citizens. But what Dr Oohay was presenting as a new idea for the safety of all Nigerian citizens is already stipulated in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended) under Section 14 (2) (b) thus, "The Security and Welfare of the People shall be the primary purpose of government." Furthermore, in Section 4 of the Nigeria Police Establishment Act 2020, it is stated, "The Police shall be employed for the prevention and detection of crime, the apprehension of offenders, the preservation of law and order, THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY and due enforcement of all laws and regulations, with which they are directly charged, and shall perform such military duties within or outside Nigeria as may be required of them by, or under the authority of this or any other Act." If the Nigerian Police were to perform their duties in accordance with Section 4 of the Nigeria Police Establishment Act 2020, kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria would not have been possible. In fact, it would never have been possible to deliver millions of Naira, motorcycles and drinks as ransoms to kidnappers without the intelligence section of the security police being able to know, trace and follow the deliverer of huge sums of money and materials to kidnappers.

The main problem confronting Nigeria, as far as kidnapping for ransom, banditry, terrorism and insurgency are concerned, is that the law makers and the law enforcement agencies are themselves LAW BREAKERS. In his September 8, 2025, article, Professor Okey C. Iheduru rhetorically asked in the main title, "IS THE NIGERIAN MILITARY COMBAT READY OR JUST A LAVISH RETIREMENT CLUB FOR BILLIONAIRE GENERALS?" Thanks to the former EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, Nigerians have got to know how billions of dollars released for anti-terror/insurgent campaigns had been diverted for personal enrichment of Nigeria's Military Service Chiefs. What do we know of the Police? In 2010, during the Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan, a biometric audit of the police personnel revealed that out of the 330, 000 police men on payroll, 110,000 were ghost police. Later, under President Buhari, his Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, told the nation after the Federal Executive Council's meeting of Wednesday 21, March 2018, that the biometric audit of the Police Personnel revealed that 80,115 out of the 371,800 police on payroll were ghost police. An NGO named, Centre For Social Justice, filed a suit in Court to compel the Inspector General of Police then, Mohammed Adamu, to release details of the Ghost police personnel on the police Pay roll to the NGO. On 22 October 2019, Justice Binta Nyako ordered the IGB to release the bank account numbers, bank verification numbers, monthly salaries and emoluments and total money paid to each of them to the Centre For Social Justice. As of date, the judgment is yet to be enforced. The implication of the ghost police personnel is that police presence were lacking in many communities, especially, in the rural areas of the country where the 80,115 police personnel would have been useful to maintain law and order but ghost police were receiving salaries and allowances every month. As it was in 2018, so, I suspect it is in 2025.

S. Kadiri  

    

 

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Donald Trump And His Nigerian Ephialtes Eurydemus, Judas Iscariot And Vidkun Quisling Supporters By S. Kadiri

 

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Interesting piece from Kadiri but mixes fact with fiction and half truths.

On the lighter side, who is the Dr. Adepoju being referred to?

The person he describes himself is responding to is not Dr. Adepoju.

Fiction-

1. The Boko Haram insiyrgency  is not about religion.

What are they about?

Have they ever stated that they are about anything else?

Kadiri states their self given name indicates them as defenders of the Prophet's teaching.

Is that not a religious mission?

Why did they once declare that President GRJ must convert to Islam and that Christians should leave the North?

Why did they centre their 2011 uprising on bombing churches and machine gunning worshippers, projecting themselves as Muslim warriors, only turning their attacks on the general populace well after the campaign began, after the populace had begun to turn against them?

2. Boko Haram was peaceful until they were provoked by the govt.

In fact Boko Haram has a record of killing rival Muslim clerics well before they came into conflict with the state govt and into national view.

Secondly, what have the children  and innocent citizens they have been killing  and enslaving got to do with any grievance they may have with the state?

3. Boko Haram is wrongly named as "Western Education is Forbidden" by people who want to wrongfully describe Islam as against education 

A strain of thought in the  Muslim North is described even by its own people as having a problem with Western education being associated with Western colonization and anti -Islamiic culture.

This was further made clear by speakers from the region at the Toyin Falola interviews on the Trump threat.

Boko Haram has never denied the validity of that designation.

Half Truth

Boko Haram has no support from sympathetic elements in the Muslim North.

Ideological support existed. Material and other operational support may also have existed but would need to be investigated and proven.

   Ideological Support for Anti-Govt Uprising and Forced Govt Change and for Boko Haram by Northern Muslim Political Leaders 

1. Atituku Abubakar-" Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable" - after he failed to secure the PDP Presidential nomination on having lost out to GEJ who won at the primaries.

2. PDP chairman Bamangar Tukur - " Boko Haram are freedom fighters"

3. Muhammadu Buhari and Adamawa governor Murtala Nyako- " The war against Boko Haram is war against the North".

I have documented the sources for  all these on this group in several debates with Kadiri who has made himself an advocate for Boko Haram, violent Fulani herdsmen, Fulani militia and Miyetti Allah, the  civil society umbrella for Fulani militia.

Half Truth 

The euphemism of " farmers/archaic-nomadic-herders clashes"

It can't be a clash since the reality is that of unarmed farmers and other unarmed Nigerians, being ravaged by armed Fulani herdsmen, aided by a well armed Fulani militia, recognized by international terrorist watch organizations as one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world, ravaging, killing and extorting across the country,  pursuing internal colonization with a focus on the Middle Belt, dispossesing its people of their land through recurrent  massacres and displacements.

On the Significance of the Trump Threat 

Nigerian Christians have been surbordinated to the culture of violence encouraged for violent Northern Muslims who are permitted to engage in individual murders and mob massacres for religious and political excuses without consequences.

This culture of consequence free inhumanity has also created a breeding ground for  organized forms of religious terrorism- from Maitasine, to Boko Haram to ISWAP and more.

Northern Muslims have also reported long-standing discrimination against them in the Muslim North.

The Trump threat has inspired pushback and introspection on these issues in the North and Nigeria generally.

The govt is working to be seen to be addressing the terrorism challenge, unlike Buhari's govt which actively aided them.

A Questionable Agenda?

Kadiri's historical analyses contain fact, half truths and fictions due to ideological leanings that make his writings like rice saturated with stones.

You have to sift the rice to avoid ingesting the stones that lace the entire collection.

He has interesting analyses about Nigerian govt corruption but his analyses seem to tilt towards a justification of what he frames as Boko Haram 's effort to invalidate the Nigerian state for having killed its leader while Kadiri reinforces this effort at invalidation  through depicting the govt as corrupt and the Western education of those who run it as being destructive since those who run the system are corrupt, an approach consistent in his engagements with this subject over the years.

Thanks 

Toyin

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju:

Sometime in the mid 80s of the last century I accidentally turned on the radio, something that I don’t normally do, and this is what I heard from an Oyibo Swede who was first-hand reporting some of his unpleasant experiences in your beloved country :

“ Nigeria! first I was robbed by the Police and then by the military, on my way from the airport to my hotel “ 

That took me aback , but of course it was plausible, not racism and not science fiction either 

I’m appalled at how dismissive you are, and the ill-concealed disingenuity in this  summation and conclusion which misleads and deceives  nobody but yourself  - this your trite piece  of self-deception , trite piece of something  that reeks of excrement:

“He has interesting analyses about Nigerian govt corruption but his analyses seem to tilt towards a justification of what he frames as Boko Haram 's effort to invalidate the Nigerian state for having killed its leader while Kadiri reinforces this effort at invalidation  through depicting the govt as corrupt and the Western education of those who run it as being destructive since those who run the system are corrupt, an approach consistent in his engagements with this subject over the years.”

You have deliberately and not unknowingly chosen to ignore and not take note of what I’m sure  you read and understood as the main thrust of Baba Kadiri’s painfully detailed supporting evidence which substantiates the  irrefutable thesis that the collusion and corruption that has consistently diverted budgetary allocations to both the Military and Police to combat the scourge of terrorism and insecurity that bedevils the Nigeria nation is responsible for the sorry state of anarchy that you have been crying about for the past fifteen years and it ’s clear that you are prepared to go on sorrowfully or indignantly sobbing/gnashing your teeth  about these your pet themes : “ Northern Hegemony”, “ Miyetti Allah”, “Fulani Herdsmen”  “Boko Haram” and could care less about some of the unpatriotic lost sheep i.e.  the wanton Christian ransom kidnappers and other marauders/miscreants from certain corners who are up to no good ,just doing their trademark  kidnapping, terrorising and daylight robbery of the good people of Nigeria 

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Cornelius 

You are out of touch with Nigerian history.

Thanks 

Toyin 

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

I stated you are out of touch with Nigerian history-

Moses Ochonu on Facebook, Dec 17, 2025-

Today’s head-spinning revelation: Miyetti Allah members are being recruited and armed with military grade weapons by Nuhu Ribadu’s NSA to “patrol” banditry-ravaged communities in Kwara State against the vehement objection of these communities but with apparent cooperation and logistical support from the Kwara State Government. 

The Kwara State government denied the existence of such a clandestine program when locals raised alarm and the media picked it up, but now that soldiers have arrested these Government-armed Bororo “antiterrorism fighters,” the Kwara State government has fessed up and is claiming that it only supported the program but that it is an NSA project conceived and run by Nuhu Ribadu’s office( I have confirmed this through Google-Toyin)

Make this one make sense please because my head is spinning from trying to understand how someone in the government thought that this was a good idea or a counterterrorism strategy."

Responses- 

Osmund Agbo-

Are we referring to the same Miyetti Allah that aids and abets terrorist herdsmen?

Imagine, even briefly, that a former Chief of Naval Staff from my home state of Enugu, while serving in Tinubu government, hired IPOBians to combat killer herder terrorism, with the quiet backing of a South-East governor. How exactly would the Nigerian state have interpreted such an arrangement?

Of course, in this country, there are the owners and then the rest of us.

Moses Ochonu -

Osmund Agbo that’s the depressingly precise analogy. Yes, the same Miyetti Allah that openly defends armed herdsmen killers and admits that it has a mass murdering armed militia that it unleashes to attack communities across the country in “reprisal” attacks. Some of these things are even beyond the realm of Nollywood movie scripts. You’d never think that these things would happen until they’re confirmed to be happening. Your head spins in confusion and outrage.

Okoli- Obi Bosco-

When communities claimed that the government was actively colluding with groups that have been accused severally of carrying out acts of terrorism on indigenous communities, many individuals were screaming propaganda.

Is it not this same Miyetti Allah that has sponsoring reprisal attacks in many communities for theft or death of cows?

Nkereuwem Ebong-

It is now clear that insurgency, banditry and jihad is sponsored by people in government. They are supplied millitary grade weapons and protected from adverse consequences . A clearer picture of the situation is emerging.

Demas Ike-

All of them from that particular ethic group in the government are all sympathetic to the jihadist movement. They are the heads of all the sleeper cells. 

You expect them to kpai them? Story.

When Tinubu is serious, he should put security heads in the hands of other ethnicities."

[Salimonu Kadiri]

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, I tender without reservation my sincere apology to you for appending the title of *Dr* to your surname. I never invented it to spite you, rather, I first encountered the title being appended to your surname on this platform by Bukola Oyeniyi a while ago during exchanges between the two of you. Since you did not, at that time, object to the appellation of the title *Dr* to your name, by Bukola Oyeniyi, I relied on him to believe that you are a genuine *Dr.*

Ascribing a part of what I wrote as fiction you, Adepoju, tacitly referred to me as having stated, "The Boko Haram insurgency is not about religion." Based on that, you asked, "What are they about? Have they ever stated that they are about anything else? Kadiri states that their self given name indicates them as defenders of the Prophet's teachings. Is that not a religious mission? In order to answer Adepoju's questions I have to refresh his memory about the history of the Sect in question that was formed in year 2002 and named "Jama 'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda' Awati Wal-Jihad, translated into English as: People Committed to the PROPAGATION of the Prophet's teachings and CRUSADE. Going by the name of the Islamic Sect, which has never been of my own making, it is obvious that you have dishonestly attributed to me as having stated that the name of the Sect "indicates them as DEFENDERS of the Prophets Teachings" instead of PROPAGATORS of the Prophets Teachings. Although English is not my mother tongue, I am very sure that the word,  defend may imply the use of force while the word to propagate implies efforts to convince one verbally, or in writing, to accept Islam. If the Islam Sect were to be defenders of the Prophet's Teachings as prejudicially constructed by you, Adepoju, then the question is, "Against who is the Sect defending the Prophet's Teachings?"

In 2002, the Islamic Sect began to organise themselves in communal economic self-help, in agriculture, commercial motorcycle riders and fishing business in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, engagements that had nothing to do with religion. The idea might have been copied from the Pentecostalists in Nigeria who had been involved in building shopping malls, petrol stations, schools, and even Universities. Until 2009, there was no conflict between the Islamic Sect and the governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States. However, conflict arose when the Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, imported helmets and caused the State Assembly to pass a law which he quickly signed into law, and forcing every motorcycle rider in the state to wear helmet and a breach would result in either result in the motorcycle being impounded or a fine for the rider. Remarkably, the State Assembly's procedures are conducted in English language and the laws too are written in English which 90% of the inhabitants neither can read, write, nor speak. Then it happened that a member of the Islamic Sect died in June 2009, and rows of motorcycles filed through Maiduguri, the Capital of Borno State, on their way to the cemetery to pay last respect to their dead member, without wearing helmets. The Police apprehended the motorcyclists forcefully with dead casualties. The Sect regrouped the following weak with demonstrations in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States. Police Stations were attacked and burnt down as well government institutions. The Police were on retreats everywhere in the three States. It was at that stage that President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua decided to send soldiers to quell the Sect's uprising. The Army quelled the rioting Sect and arrested their leaders, Muhammed Yusuf and Buju Foi, and handed them over to the Police in Maiduguri, Borno State where they were extra-judicially murdered. Thereafter, Abubakar Shekau and other members of the Islamic Sect went into hiding and later re-emerged as rebels against the Federal government led by President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua.

As a professional mythologist, Adepoju saw through his oracle that the Islamic Sect once demanded that President Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan should convert to Islam and that Christians should leave the North without stating where and when the demand was made or at which press conference or who signed the press release of the Sect. Adepoju also stated falsely, because he failed to give, at least, some names of rival Muslim clerics to the Sect who were killed before they came into conflict with the government in 2009.

Still on his branding my writing as fiction, Adepoju wrote, "Boko Haram is wrongly named as 'Western Education is forbidden' by people who want to wrongfully describe Islam as against education. A strain of thought in the Muslim North is described even by its own people as having a problem with Western education being associated with Western colonization and anti-Islamic culture. Boko Haram has never denied the validity of that designation." It is only in the imagination of 21^st Century Nigerian Goebbels (Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) that the word *BOKO* in Hausa language can be translated to WESTERN EDUCATION and be linked with the Arabic word, HARAM (FORBIDDEN), to produce the sentence, WESTERN EDUCATION IS FORBIDDEN. And who are the self-appointed Muslims claiming to know the opinion of the common man in the North as being hostile to Western Education which they associate with Western Colonization and anti-Islamic culture? They are the same Northern feudal aristocrats that have been collecting trillions of naira annually for decades as revenue allocations from the Federal Revenue Allocation Account and which they have been squandering without accounting to the people on whose behalf they have collected money. Although the feudal aristocrats in the North spend a lot of money on the education of their own children, they consider education of ordinary fellow northerner as a privilege and not a right. If the Islamic Sect, now spuriously named Boko Haram, should deny that they have never at anytime declared ideologically that Western Education is prohibited, does Adepoju think that the feudal aristocrats would propagate it or make it known to the general public? In the absence of publication of such denial, how will Adepoju know the views of the Sect on education, whether Western or otherwise? 

Under the title, "Half Truth," Adepoju accused me of being an advocate for Boko Haram, violent Fulani herdsmen, Fulani militia, and Miyetti Allah owing to my description of incidents between herders and crop Sowers as clashes. Crop Sowers and Pastoralists are two different types of farming that have existed in Nigeria from antiquity to date and the two are needed. Nevertheless, I think it is archaic that Nigerian herders must still trek hundreds of kilometres with their cattle in the 21^st Century in search of forage and in the process must trespass on farm lands. In a properly organised society there are ranches with the effect that the need for herders to violate grown-up farmlands can never arise.

Under his subtitle: On The Significance Of the Trump Treat, Adepoju averred, "The Trump threat has inspired pushback and introspection on these issues in the North and Nigeria generally. The government is working to be seen to be addressing the terrorism challenge...." With this averment Adepoju would appear to be in support of the Trump's bully and Malam Nuhu Ribadu federal government's led US-Nigeria joint working group set up on 27 November 2025 to tackle insecurity in Nigeria. If the partnership of Nigeria with Trump's America can cause Nigerian Security Personnel to be loyal and patriotic so that they stop stealing defence and security funds in addition to not collaborating with kidnappers, terrorists and bandits which are the root causes of insecurity, Nigerians will be happy. However, at the same time that Adepoju is applauding the federal government for its current actions against insecurity he is deluging us with the posts he has scavenged from Ochonu's Facebook wall where Mallam Nuhu Ribadu's NSA is said to have recruited Miyetti Allah's members and armed them with military grade weapons to patrol banditry-ravaged communities in Kwara State. Therefore, Ochonu's choristers are demanding the removal of Ribadu as NSA, without which the fight for security cannot be won. Here, Adepoju is exposed for being a bat, neither a bird nor a mouse. 

Under a rhetoric title, "A Questionable Agenda?" Adepoju wrote, "He (Kadiri) has interesting analyses about govt corruption but his analysis seem to tilt towards a justification of what he frames as Boko Haram's effort to invalidate the Nigerian State for having killed its leader while Kadiri reinforces this effort at invalidation through depicting the govt as corrupt and Western Education of those who run it as being destructive since those who run the system are corrupt, an approach consistent in his engagements with this subject over the years." 

The above intellectual diarrhoea can only emanate from an ethno-religious baiter and a primordial sentimentalist who has decided to be truthless and unobjective. The Latin people will classify Adepoju's conclusion as "ignoratio elenchi" meaning an ignorance of proof. A lot of Ministries, Departments and Agencies are created to produce goods and services for Nigerians. All our Ministries, Departments, and Agencies are manned by educated Nigerians that, for the most part have been educated in the Western World. Nigerians like Adepoju, for instance, will shout themselves hoarse against the removal of subsidy on imported fuel but then close their eyes and keep mute against the national Crude Oil Refineries at Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri manned by educated Nigerians but have not been able to refine 445,000 barrel daily allocation of crude oil to them since 1998. Hitherto, it has officially been stated that the sum of $25 billion (US Dollars) have been spent on what is termed "Turn Around Maintenance" without any positive result. Kaduna Refinery has 660 active staff, Port Harcourt has 507 active staff and Warri has 437 active staff and the three refineries together have installed capacity to refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Despite not refining Crude oil the personnel annual Basic Salaries and allowances of personnel gulp 137 billion naira. Viewed from that angle, I wrote on this platform sometime ago that Boko Haram would have been more truthful if they had said that Western Education in Nigeria is useless. As it is in the government's crude oil refineries so it is in electricity generation and distribution where Nigeria, a country of over 200 million people is generating under 5,000 MW per day. Education, whether Western, Eastern, Northern or Southern, that cannot be deployed to produce the daily needs of Nigerians must be useless. We see the effect of non-application of (knowledge) education everywhere in Nigeria today. 

A mere perusal of what I have written on the above subject will reveal that I have never accused the 'Nigerian govt of corruption' as Adepoju has inferred in his response. Rather, I have stated that top security personnel, especially the Armed Forces, were not only colluding with insurgents, kidnappers and Bandits, to share proceeds of crime, but that they have been stealing money appropriated for buying weapons, recruit and train personnel for combats. Corruption as I will define it, is to procure or produce goods and services for citizens at inflated prices. When goods and services paid for are never delivered by the person assigned with the responsibility to procure or produce and appropriated funds vanishe into the pockets of the procurer or producer, that is called stealing (theft). I will now give a typical example.

As I narrated in my previous submission, Lieutenant General Azubuike Onyeabor Ihejirika was retired by President Goodluck Jonathan with effect from 16 January 2014. In 2016, the EFCC led by Ibrahim Magu discovered that the Chief of Army Staff, Ihejirika, had stollen N4.5 billion (naira) from the Nigerian Army he headed. In a Court plead-bargaining process, he returned N29 million (naira). From 16 January 2014, President Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan appointed his Ijaw kinsman, Major General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah as Chief of Army Staff and promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General. On November 17, 2014, Lt.-General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah registered a private company named, Conella Services Limited. On the same day the Nigerian Army headed by Lt.-General Minimah, awarded a contract worth $125,179,299.10 (one hundred and twenty-five million, one-hundred and seventy-nine thousand, two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ten cents) to his company Conella Services Limited. The awarded contract was for the procurement of 72 various arms and ammunition that included MRAP vehicles and Mi-17 helicopter. On the same day that the contract was awarded, an advance payment of thirty-six million, Nine-hundred and ninety-six thousand, five hundred and thirty US dollars ($36,996,530.00) was paid into the account of Conella Services Limited. Five months later, 15 April 2015, the balance of the awarded Contract, two billions, two-hundred and nine millions, five-hundred and eighty-two thousand, two-hundred and ninety-six naira (N2,209,582,296.00) was paid in naira into Conella Services Ltd., bank account without any procurement or delivery of the items. Buhari took over the presidency at the end of May 2015 and he changed all the Service Chiefs, including General Minimah, in July 2015. Subsequent investigations by EFCC under Ibrahim Magu revealed that Lieutenant General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah had stollen from the Nigerian Army the sum of 13.9 billion naira. At a court plead-bargaining process, he returned N4.8 billion in cash and some property to the Federal Government. When Service Chiefs stole funds, for the purchase of Arms and Ammunition, to recruit and train soldiers for combat, it was obvious that 'Boko Haram' and other insurgents would have safe and free field to operate. Of course, the few badly equipped soldiers on the battle field who saw their military leaders turned overnight dollar millionaires would rather collaborate with insurgents or sell their weapons to kidnappers. Recently a retired Major General Danjuma Ali-Kefi alleged that the air crash of 21 May 2021, in which the then Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, and others died was a targeted elimination designed and executed by corrupt saboteurs. He said that the late Army Chief who was appointed on January 26, 2021, had ordered a forensic audit of the huge funds released for the anti-terror campaigns because he suspected the huge funds were stollen. Interestingly, in the online Premium Times, Nigeria of March 21, 2021, the National Security Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, stated that billions allocated for the purchase of arms under Buhari had been stollen. Definitely, ghost soldiers and ghost police with ghost arms cannot fight terrorists, insurgents, kidnappers and bandits. That is my major point.

S. Kadiri  

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

This is the current mood in Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt-

Malcolm Omirhobo on Facebook -

See more at the thread at link-

https://www.facebook.com/share/17ZrpuTQWF/

PRESS STATEMENT

INSECURITY, ELITE NARRATIVES, AND CONSTITUTIONAL BETRAYAL: NIGERIANS DESERVE TRUTH, NOT ETHNIC APOLOGETICS

By Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo

Nigeria is confronted not only with insecurity, terrorism, and banditry, but with a more dangerous crisis: the systematic distortion of truth by influential elites whose public utterances repeatedly excuse, sanitise, or rationalise violent criminality.

I speak particularly of certain Fulani religious, political, and intellectual figures whose statements on insecurity consistently undermine national resolve and betray constitutional responsibility.

For the avoidance of doubt, let us deal with verifiable records.

1. Prof. Usman Yusuf

In a widely circulated public statement, Prof. Usman Yusuf stated, inter alia:

 “We have entered forests where bandit leaders are located, engaged directly, and witnessed the devastation caused by military operations… In reality these bandits are themselves freedom fighters.”

This is not analysis. This is moral inversion. Armed groups engaged in mass murder, kidnapping, rape, and village destruction are criminals under Nigerian law, not “freedom fighters.” Any narrative that confers legitimacy on them directly contradicts Section 14(2)(b) of the Constitution, which makes the security and welfare of the people the primary purpose of government.

2. Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has, on multiple occasions, publicly advocated negotiation, concessions, and engagement with armed bandits, while attributing their crimes to alleged grievances and state failure.

While dialogue is a policy choice, the persistent humanisation of perpetrators without equal moral outrage for victims has the effect of normalising terror and weakening deterrence. The Constitution does not recognise armed grievance as a defence to mass murder.

3. The Sultan of Sokoto

Statements attributed to the Sultan of Sokoto have repeatedly emphasised dialogue and restraint, while conspicuously avoiding firm, unequivocal condemnation of terrorist violence and the ideological foundations that sustain it.

Where moral authority exists, silence or ambiguity in the face of evil becomes complicity. Nigerians are entitled to ask whether such utterances comply with Section 15(2) of the Constitution, which mandates national integration and forbids conduct that promotes sectional loyalty above national unity.

4. Political Elites, Including APC Chieftains Several political figures have publicly dismissed insecurity concerns as exaggerated, misunderstood, or politically motivated. Such statements insult victims and amount to state-enabled denialism.

Even former President Muhammadu Buhari was widely criticised for statements that framed the Boko Haram conflict in religious or ideological terms, which many Nigerians reasonably interpreted as reluctance to confront terror with moral clarity. Whether intended or not, such messaging blurred the line between criminality and belief, in violation of Section 10 of the Constitution, which prohibits the adoption of any religion as state policy

Let it be stated clearly:

Terrorism and banditry are criminal offences, not ethnic struggles.

No religion, ethnicity, or cultural narrative excuses mass violence.

Loyalty to Nigeria is loyalty to the Constitution, not to primordial identity.

By Sections 1(1)–(3) of the 1999 Constitution, the Constitution is supreme. Any public narrative religious, ethnic, or political that undermines the security of Nigerians or excuses criminal violence is constitutionally illegitimate.

This is not an attack on any ethnic group. It is an indictment of elite conduct.

Nigeria cannot defeat insecurity while influential voices continue to:

Rationalise terror. , Ethnicise  crime

Sanctify violence Or treat killers as negotiating partners instead of criminals

I therefore call on all public figures mentioned, and others similarly situated, to clarify, retract where necessary, and recommit publicly to the supremacy of the Constitution and the sanctity of Nigerian lives.

Anything less is unpatriotic.

Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria .

Signed:

Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo

Legal Practitioner & Public Interest Advocate

Nigeria

[Dr. Oohay]

A generally illuminating “genealogy” of Boko Haram. Thanks! Oohay

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