Why Nigeria Is Not Winning War Against Terror - Rawlins, Ame

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Why Nigeria is not winning war against terror Rawlins, American security expert
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Dr Lionel Von Frederick Rawlins, a forensic criminologist, is the Security Coordinator at the American University of Nigeria, Yola and the President and founder of California, US-based The VonFrederick Group, a counterterrorism and criminological organisation. Rawlins has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Far East, in the capacity of a counter-terrorist and criminologist. In this
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Mohammed Bin Usman Follow W orks at The fact is nigerian governmnt are not ready to fight boko haram y Reply Like Follow Post April 21 at 6:57pm
Walter Jumbo Top Commenter Abraham Adesanya Polytech Hmmm,U've spoken just lik a professional,great insight U've show n any form of sentiment,not lik our so called politicians & religious hyp evrytin is politics or religion,I tink our govt shud fo once listen to di advice.tank u Raw Reply Like Follow Post April 20 at 6:43pm
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help you, but Nigerians are very proud people and probably wouldnt ask for help. But they only have to ask and they will send people. I can train and teach and do stuff to them. But the fundamental thing is that government is responsible for the safety and welfare of citizens and any time the citizens are being killed or their welfare is being abused, government must take some kind of action; I believe that it has gone beyond the stage of just blaming government and politicians. Some people believe that it is politically-motivated, may be it was and it started off that way; some believe it is religiously-motivated but I dont know if that is true, I doubt it because Muslims are killing Muslims as well, not just Christians and non-Muslims; so if you want to look at it that way, it is a fallacy. What I would say is that it has got to the point where Boko Haram is killing people because Boko Haram is now proving a point that it can kill and get away with it. It has gone beyond religion, politics and ideology. It is a belief: I can kill people and I can get away with it and let me show you I can do it. That is what it is now. It is a showman thing. I know most people wont think of that because they always believe it is religious or political. May be it was at the beginning when they said they were formed by a governor; maybe it was religiously-motivated when they wanted to Islamise the North and bring in Sharia law; all these may be true but it has gone beyond that. It has reached the point of can kill you and there is nothing you can do, and they have proven it; so the more they do it, the more emboldened they become. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW IN SUNDAY VANGUARD You might also like
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