ON THE NIGERIAN ARMY MEDICAL OUTREACH IN THE SOUTH-EAST.

I understand that the government of Anambra State has asked the command of the (82 Division) Nigerian Army to call off the ongoing medical outreach in the state due to a number of unforeseen(?) developments. Terrible rumours have been flying here and there.

About time!
I have expressed a number of times that I would never be comfortable with President Buhari standing behind (my back) with a kitchen knife, pestle or doctor's syringe. Not to mention tanks or attack aircraft. Zero trust. I have given up all hope that he has it in him to take such steps that could bolster such trust. Not in his DNA.

For the avoidance of doubt the ONLY social responsibility of the Nigerian Army in the South-East is to stay in their barracks, unwelcome, out of sight, with minimal contact with the populace. Like in the days that I grew up in Enugu, they should come out to town, to the markets, etc, incognito, WITHOUT THEIR UNIFORMS, ie in mufti. Even I have serious apprehension in the presence of the Nigerian Army, supposedly my own army. Unfortunately, I have had so many reasons to denounce it, distance myself from it and imagine a better future without it in my neighborhood.

It is only in the unlikely event that Ugandan or Tanzanian paratroopers land in Igboland, that I can approve of the kind of provocative full mobilization that Buhari has visited on Igboland, while Boko-Haram land and Agatuland burn.

I imagine that most sensible people are already writing Buhari's sad epitaph. .
Ugly!