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Original Post Date: 2011-01-06 Time: 01:00:07 Posted By: News Poster
By Yochuku Ofoka Yobolisa
Abuja – Not fewer than 10 persons plus a woman heavy with child were confirmed dead in a bomb explosion that occurred at about 7.00PM Friday night at the mammy market of the Mogadishu Cantonment in the nation’s capital.
In that explosion which occurred when people were getting ready to relax and joy the eve of the New Year about 8 more people had their limbs chopped off and 2 others had their faces caved in and needing plastic surgery.
According to Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin who arrived the scene almost immediately said the incendiary bombing had the same force and character as the one that occurred on the Christmas eve in Jos, the Plateau State capital two weeks ago.
The defence chief who came in a party of combat-ready soldiers lamented that the explosion at the Mogadishu Cantonment occurred barely three months after a similar attack in the nation’s capital that almost truncated the country’s Jubilee anniversary. He then vowed to get to the roots of the repeated bomb attacks that are gradually threatening the nation to its very foundation.
Describing the repeated incendiary bomb attacks and terrorist activities in the country in recent time as new forms of transitional and organised crimes, Petirinrin warned Nigerians to be weary of allowing strangers to keep luggage and any unidentified personal effects beside them.
Petinrin said, “It is this type of incident that happened in Jos a week ago at the Christmas Eve. It is very unfortunate that someone would plant a bomb where innocent people are relaxing for the New Year celebration.
“About a dozen people have been killed in this mindless act of terrorism. Though we have been able to rescue some people, there are a lot of casualties and the law enforcement agents will surely get to the root of this matter. Our people should therefore, be rest assured that the armed forces of this country would not fold its arms and watch the serenity of this nation turns to beats by terrorist groups.
“It is, indeed, very unfortunate and this calls for a lot of concern. But right now the much we can do as a people is to be very vigilant at all times. Of course, it is a new form of crime”.
The CDS’s speech can be very reassuring but with similar bomb attacks occurring here and there across the country what is happening to the nation?
Daily Champion spoke to a top-ranking police officer at the scene of the blast who preferred to be anonymous. He said, “These people, no doubt, aim to make the country very ungovernable for Mr President. They aim to introduce fresh panic in the minds of the masses so that it would seem as if the law enforcement agents are not grossly inefficient and quite unable to protect the sanctity of this nation”.
We dare say that this calls for a serious concern just as the defence chief pointed out. But what is the country’s infrastructure of peace doing to stem the tide? Are the authorities only interested in making stage pronouncements that are not backed by concomitant obligations that could curb this monster in the land?
But far from it, insofar as we would that our very conscious government is not merely making idle pronouncements. What is important in this instance is making the security operatives live up to their expectations of delivering perfect security to the masses of this country.
Just two months ago, in November last year, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed Forces of this country obviously worried about the state of rising insecurity in the land called on the Nigerian Army to come out and give a hand to the police force in the business of delivering effective security to the masses.
He said, “I enjoin the Nigerian Army to come out and assist other law enforcement agents in the country to ensure adequate security in the country.
“The army must not sit on the fence and watch our country messed up by faceless groups who think that the rest of the nation owes them any allegiance”.
The president who spoke when he commissioned an ultramodern army facility in Abuja decried a situation where a few individuals in society hold the rest of the country to ransom, said that enough was enough to the massacre of human being in high and low places.
The question at this point is, two months after that plea, in what important ways have the army and, in fact the armed forces of this country contributed to stemming the rising insecurity in the land?
According to the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig-General Chris Olukolade who spoke in a telephone conversation with Daily Champion soon after the New Year Eve explosion at the Mogadishu Barracks, “The army must be seen to play only complementary roles in the security delivery and only assist the police and other agencies of government to contain the group insurrections in this country.
“Because the army is a highly militarised infrastructure of peace if their roles are not complementary it might be viewed by the masses of this country as another form of military muscling of the social structure and so we must be very mindful of not eliciting outright condemnation by the mass society”.
Of course, the army spokesman was not unmindful of the need for the army to step up action to check revolutionary activities of leftwing political groups who might stop at nothing to distort the wheel of progress in order to maintain the sovereignty of the country. He lamented that in doing so the army whose personnel are mainly trained to quell uprisings by applying maximum force said that the service would always find it difficult to curb insurgency without wounding the psyche and ego of the Nigerian masses.
“Our primary training is to bring insurrection under country using maximum force. But how can we apply maximum force amongst our kinsmen?”
No doubt, there is a dilemma here for the army who is highly constrained in its security delivery efforts. The question is how should the army act under the prevailing circumstances? Looking at the frequency of group insurrection coming mostly from the faith community such as the Boko Haram, should the army be empowered to carry out extermination campaign against members of the sect?
According to Ralph Ajayi, an Abuja-based public affairs analyst, “What happened last night at the Mogadishu Cantonment cannot be divorced from the acts sectarian uprising gripping the nation. If a what happened is similar to what happened in Jos going by the submission of the defence chief, then the country is really doomed from the hands of religious fundamentalists who think they are sacred cows that cannot be touched. Until our government takes the bull by the horn, unrest and other forms of terrorism would continue unabated in this country”.
Speaking on the volume of human traffic at the mammy market a shop owner who is know to all in the market as Baba Abuja, who saw it all said, “On daily average about 5,000 people visit the market either to shop and go, relax or just to visit friends. I believe that there was a major throng yesterday at the market as a great number of people trouped out to make merry and relax in readiness for the New Year.
“I nearly became a victim of the bomb blast as my shop was just close to the site of explosion. Of course, when that blast occurred I rushed to the scene afterwards and saw lifeless bodies and people whose legs and armed ere chopped off. So many of these people may die afterwards because of the kind of injuries they sustained”.
Citing example of the explosion on the nation’s Independence Day Celebration three months ago, Baba Abuja lamented that our functionaries have made empty promises of stemming bomb blasts and said that if the situation is allowed to continue then there is the likelihood that some day a revolutionary group could step up and overrun the country in a nuclear attack.
Of course, Baba Abuja might not be alone in his opinion as Nigerians in different quarters are saying that the country is evidently under siege and the government seem quite incapable of contending with the upsurge of violence and incendiary bombings in places like the Jos Plateau, Maiduguri, Yenagoa and so many other places where people feel quite unsafe to continue their business without fear of intimidation.
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Original date published: 4 January 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101040997.html?viewall=1