A Nigerian-born U.S. Army Captain,
Sunday Adebomi, on Sunday said that war
against Boko Haram could be won if President
Goodluck Jonathan set aside his gentility.
Read what he has to say below:
Adebomi said in Ado-Ekiti that the war could be
won if the Federal Government was determined to
introduce a hard stand.
“There are several ways of wiping out the sect
and end the killings. If government is determined
to end Boko Haram today it will be achieved.
“Who are those in the sect that dare face the
government? But unfortunately, I suspect there
are some bigwigs behind these people.
“Mr President is being too gentle in his handling
of the killings; but unfortunately, it is daily
assuming dangerous dimension; gentility cannot
win the war.
“Although gentility is not a crime but Mr President
will have to be more aggressive because this is a
security threat to the entire nation.
“Mr President will have to take a stand on the
matter either to continue to tolerate the sect and
leave Nigerians to be mourning every day with the
several killings.
“Mr President should give a matching order to the
military to wipe them off once and for all.
“Not until a strong stand is taken Nigerians may
not be able to sleep with their eyes closed,” he
said.
Adebomi said the military had been doing a good
job in the affected states but “they are fighting
unknown faces and faceless groups.
“Government will have to first identify the cause
of the problem, the root, sponsors, as well as
where and how these insurgents get their
weapons.
“The security agencies do not also understand the
terrain they are fighting the war because most of
them are alien to the battle fields.
“They know nothing about the sect, how then will
they fight such war and think they will win; it is
difficult.”
The U.S. captain said he led over 5,000 U.S.
soldiers to war during the Pre-Mobilisation in
2010 and expressed optimism that the sect could
be wiped out.
He said that the sect meant nothing to the
Nigeria security agencies if genuine commitment
was there adding, “all they need is the
Presidential directive.”
He appealed to President Jonathan to read the
riot act to the governors of the affected states or
be made to face the wrath of the Federal
government.
Adebomi said that the President could also
compel the governors in the states to account for
each soul lost to the insurgents.
“What am simply saying is that the matter
deserves an aggressive reaction; enough of a
gentleman approach, because you don’t dialogue
with faceless groups,” he said.
“The question we need to ask ourselves is: “When
will enough be enough?
I woke up this morning with this thought in my
mind asking Nigerians when enough will be
enough.
“I ask the President when enough will be enough.
I ask members of the Senate and House of
Representatives when enough will be enough.
“Is it not time the government declared full state
of emergency in the affected region?
“Since this insurgency, what concrete intelligence
step has the government taken apart from fire for
fire exposing ill equipped military men and women
to excessive fire power of Boko Haram.
“Let us ask, when will enough be enough? Nigeria
is dripping blood on daily basis; it is time the
government woke up to its task.”
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states have been
under the attack of the Boko Haram insurgents,
loosing several lives and property.
Adebomi hails from Ise-Ekiti in Ise/Orun local
government area of Ekiti and had been in the U.S.
Army for almost two decades. (NAN)
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