Eventually, it’ll get to President Buhari that under his watch, about 380 professional soldiers, whom the country spent fortune to train, begged to be voluntarily discharged from the army.
The reason they gave was loss of interest in the institution which was bedevilled by nepotism and politics.
Disatisfaction among troops, especially those fighting Boko Haram terrorists, since went through the ceiling. Allegations of corruption among generals are rife. But rather than address the rot, the FG kept modifying reasons for failure. President Buhari lent credence to the allegations when he told a female reporter he was told that $2.1b anti-insurgency war money was allegedly spent on launch. Troops who protested against obsolete weapons were swifly court-martialled.
Nigerians complained about failure of service chiefs to end insecurity in country. President Buhari endorsed the popular opinion when he told service chiefs their best was not good enough.
The prevarication snowballed into disaster when scores of grumbling soldiers applied for voluntary discharge on account of loss of interest in an institution rendered impotent to contain ordinary insurgents.
380 soldiers begging to quit army, perhaps to create room for “repentant terrorists” that powerful forces were bent on absorbing into country’s military. If that happened, the FG would’ve vindicated American State Dept profiling of Nigeria as state sponsor of terrorism.
PMB should be bothered that under his watch, the military was degraded to an inconsequential force that begged criminals for permission to exercise authority.
