Gov Nyako Angry With Foreign Soldiers Intervention In The North.

**If they soldier have to go in, we have to instruct them on how to operate. – Gov Nyako.


As the nation rejoice over the arrival of soldiers and equipment from the United States and other world powers to help rescue the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State was angered by the development and warned that direct military intervention may worsen killings in the North-East.
Nigeria President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan got assurances from his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, of America’s offer to send soldiers trained in counter-insurgency who will join their Nigerian counterparts for the special operation.


But Nyako, a retired Chief of Naval Staff, in an interview with reporters in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, said given the fact that the abduction is an internal security situation, “it is not encouraged to send in military in an internal security situation. Some countries even prohibit it.”


The governor, who has been critical of security agents’ alleged engagement in extra-judicial killings in the North, said during the General Ibrahim Babangida regime between 1985 and 1993, there was a breakdown of law and order in some parts of the country but he and some colleagues in the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) persuaded Babangida not to send soldiers to the troubled areas. To him, instead of sending soldiers, the Federal Government should find an alternative solution.

He said: “If you send in the military, the situation will deteriorate because we have different rules of engagement, we have a different code of conduct, we have a different mentality; we tend to come up more aggressively. So, there were cases, even in my experience (the Babangida years), when we refused to permit the military to get involved because from the experience of day one, if we go in, we (military) will aggravate the situation.


“If they (soldiers) have to go in, we need to emphasise to them the need to restrict, observe and be guided by the military code of conduct. Today, we have a situation where people are dying daily, so we have to find a solution. What do you want us to do? This humiliating situation is substantially in the North. “The security situation is seriously deteriorating by the day.

There is mass death, killings and the record is there. A number of people are being taken and killed from custody of state apparatus to graveyards for burial while others in cells are not being fed, not looked after and it’s a known fact in this state.


“These organised kidnappers must have the backing for them to move about freely with abducted children just as those who convey ammunition and explosives from ports to the safe houses of so called Boko Haram in the North.”


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