📍​It is both baffling and deeply insulting to the collective intelligence of Nigerians when a statesman of Ben Murray-Bruce’s caliber descends to the abysmal lows of unvarnished image-laundering. His recent glowing tribute praising the “diligence, focus, and quiet effectiveness” of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is a stark reminder of how disconnected our political elite are from the grim realities on the ground.

📍​Mr. Bruce, no amount of poetic Public Relations or strategic vocabulary can obliterate the bloody truth written across the length and breadth of Nigeria. To speak of a “renewed sense of purpose” while millions of Nigerians live in perpetual terror is a betrayal of the victims of our nation’s ongoing security collapse.

📍​For a former Senator of the Federal Republic—a man of high education, global exposure, and civilization—to engage in such sycophancy is an absolute betrayal of public trust. What does a man of his pedigree want from the corridors of power that he must trade his patriotism for praise-singing? Instead of standing with the sovereign citizens and holding the Tinubu administration accountable for its gross incompetence, he has chosen to become the chief marketer for an ineffective security architecture.

▪️​The Unfiltered Facts on the Ground

▪️​An Unprecedented Surge in Terror:
📍Under the stewardship of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the watch of NSA Nuhu Ribadu, the spate of terrorist attacks and mindless killings has reached an unprecedented peak.

▪️​The Southern Expansion:
📍 These gruesome murderers are no longer confined to the North-East, North-West, and North-Central. They have boldly expanded their theaters of operation down into the South-West, shattering any illusion of regional safety.

▪️​Industrialized Abductions:
📍Kidnapping is no longer an occasional crisis; it has evolved into a thriving, industrialized enterprise. Whole communities, travelers, and school children are pulled from their beds and roads daily, leaving families to crowdfund billions in ransoms while officialdom watches in “quiet effectiveness.”

▪️​Sacking of Villages and Impunity:
📍 The mindless terrorists haven’t been “disrupted.” They operate with shocking impunity, sacking villages, imposing taxes on local farmers, and mocking the state’s intelligence-driven rhetoric.

▪️​A Colossal Failure of Leadership

📍​The primary metrics of security leadership are peace, safety, and the preservation of human life. By any objective standard, the current administration is failing. What we see on display is a rudderless and ineffective approach that behaves with complicity, offering little more than a pat-on-the-wrist treatment to terrorists.

📍​Praising an NSA while the entire house is burning is a luxury only those behind heavily fortified walls can afford. While we salute the brave men and women in uniform who pay the ultimate price on the frontlines due to these systemic failures, we refuse to clap for a political leadership that offers rhetoric instead of results.

📍​Nigeria cannot be secured by press releases, self-serving utterances, or sycophantic endorsements.
True leadership is reflected in safe highways, secure homes, and the complete eradication of terror—not in the glossy paint of political image laundry. Mr. Bruce, we expected you to be patriotic, to speak truth to power, and to demand accountability. This performance is a collective insult to all Nigerians.

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