THE MENACING NIGERIAN INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES BY S. KadiriSTITUTES

[Salimonu Kadiri]

Sequel to the appearance of Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar on Piers Morgan 'show' Barrister John Onyeukwu expatiated thus, "Diplomacy Meets Reality: what the Piers' Morgan Interview Reveals About Nigeria's Governance Gaps. Why Nigeria's Global Messaging cannot succeed while insecurity and silence define its domestic reality." Piers' Morgan show was designed to entertain, firstly, the Americans and the rest of the white world, and it was not meant to be a fact finding mission as it would have been in a serious interview. Yusuf Tuggar ought not to have attended the 'show' that was planned to humiliate him and ridicule Nigeria. It is for those reasons that I am in total agreement with Barrister Onyeukwu that Nigeria's global messaging as displayed by Yusuf Tuggar in Piers Morgan's 'show' is useless, while insecurity and silence define Nigeria's domestic reality. Nigerian leaders and the political elites should be communicating regularly with Nigerians on the subjects of economic and security developments in the country, instead of trying to please outsiders who do not have the good interest of Nigerians in their hearts.

Although Mr. Morgan was never in Nigeria he confronted Mr. Yusuf Tuggar with statistics of purported Christian casualties from Islamic genocides and numbers of churches destroyed. The statistics were produced by a group of Nigerian intellectual of prostitutes, often euphemistically referred to as NGOs and which are heavily financed by the USA. People die daily in Nigeria of different causes regardless of their religious faiths. As of date, birth and death registers are not well-kept. Anyone producing statistics of burnt Churches in Nigeria, must be able to tell, not only the total number of Churches in Nigeria but, the location of each Church. In order to be able to account for the accurate numbers of dead Christians in Nigeria there must be a total number of dead Nigerians in the whole country for the period from which the former is computed.

Narrating one of the Nigerian insecurity problems while silence defines its domestic reality, Barrister Onyeukwu wrote, "on 17 November 2025, armed men stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Danko/Wasagu LGA of Kebbi State, around 4 a.m. The attackers scaled the school fence after an exchange of gunfire with local security personnel, killing the school Vice Principal, Mallam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, and abducting 25, female students."     

Contrary to the accounts rendered by Barrister Onyeukwu on how the kidnapping of school girls in Kebbi occurred, the Governor of Kebbi State, Nasir Idris, was reported to have said the following in the online Nigerian Premium Times, "Credible intelligence was provided; the state mobilised soldiers to guide the school; yet mysteriously, and in a fashion that reeks of a choreographed treachery, the soldiers walked away mere moments before the attackers arrived." https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/836581-clear-sabotage-outrage-grows... (over Kebbi School abduction as governor blames security negligence). In normal clime, the President and the Governor should have addressed the nation in a joint television broadcast, to report the security personnel to Nigerians and with the promise of stiff penalty for the security deserters. That never happened. This has been the pattern of behaviour of Nigeria's security officers since 2014 when 300 Chibok's girls were abducted. Recall that President Goodluck Jonathan had declared a State of Emergency in Borno State and dusk to dawn curfew was in in force. Yet, Boko Haram could file in, in a convoy of vehicles to kidnap and transport about 300 school girls from Chibok to Sambisa, a distance of 60 kilometres without any security officers, who were supposed to enforce curfew, in sight. The complicity of the Nigerian Armed Forces in banditry, kidnapping for ransom, and insurgencies in Nigeria was highlighted by Shiekh Gumi when, on Wednesday, 23 of June 2021, he said in an interview in Arise News that, "these bandits, if you don't know, are cooperating with a lot of bad elements in our SECURITY system. This is business. So many people are involved." He wondered in the interview how the big weapons he saw with bandits/insurgents could cross the Nigerian borders and get into the forest without the cooperation of some bad elements of the security operatives assisting them. It is time for the President of Nigeria and all the Governors to hold the Nigerian Armed forces by the jugular to end their impunities and lawless behaviours.

  S. Kadiri