A former Chief of Army Administration, Major-General Garba Wahab
(retired), has stated that women have a major role to play in ending
insurgency in Nigeria.
“Is the strategy being used working? are we getting more women in the
Northeast especially in Borno to get involved because we need to look
at basics of life in that area,” Wahab said on Channels Television’s
Sunrise Daily on Monday
“If we get in the mothers it is possible for them to talk to their
kids that look you can’t afford to join these organisations,” he added.
This is coming after reports in the country revealed the killing of
at least 44 soldiers of the 157 Task Force Battalion in Metele, Borno
State on November 18.
However, an officer among the troop attacked at Metele told a foreign
News platform, Reuters, that “the insurgents took us unawares. We lost
about 100 soldiers. It is a huge loss.”
The former military boss blamed the brutal attack on information
leakage and said: “the military needs to look at information that leads
to intelligence.”
You cannot afford to allow your information to leak. A lot of
information is leaking, it is the information you turn into
intelligence,” Wahab said.
Wahab also advised the Nigerian Government to provide the troops with
efficient equipments and motivate troops fighting Boko Haram terrorists
in the northeast.
“We need to reassess. Is the equipment okay? Are the troops
motivated? If the will to fight is not there, it behoves disaster
because you must continuously motivate them.” Wahab said.
“Whether you like it or not, a lot of issues are involved. And it is
not the only military because there is no military solution to this. You
need to also look at the political issue, the economic and sociological
perspectives,” he added.
He, therefore, affirmed that attention should be diverted from men
rather the women should be enlightened to talk their kids out of joining
the terrorist group.
Source: The Guardian
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