As I watched the videos of& read tweets about the Chadian victories against BH, it brought back many discussions I had when I was a broadcast journalist.
I interviewed on air and had discussions off air with many politicians, technocrats and soldiers...
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...about our fight against BH and not kne of those ever left me feeling satisfied. I recall in particular a commanding officer who had returned from the front lines and how he told me back in 2016 if how better equipped the Chadian forces were compared to Nigeria's
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As he spoke his eyes glazed over with despair. Politicians - of both extractions - have peddled the lives of Nigerians for money & power.
And its because we have let them.We fail to realize that the politicans we flippantly support - or refuse to confront - are the ones...
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...who make security decisions. And if their only qualifications for ascending were ethnicity and party affiliation, then that is what they will choose when confronting our legions of issues.

My heart is hurt.