Quick one about a reprisal

There’s a story in today’s ThisDay where Emma Nwaka, PDP’s chairman in Abia is pleading with the Nigerian Army “to exercise restraint in their reprisals on the communities of Obuzor and Owaza,”

These are the kind of things that tell you that Nigeria is a banana republic in which the people have no confidence in the system to a) protect them, and b) give them justice.

Why the fuck should we be pleading with our own army to exercise restraint? What kind of country is this?

Of course, the army has form in this kind of matter. Do I need to list starting from Ugep in 1975 where the army slaughtered the community because a soldier disappeared? Later it was found that he was drunk and had died of asphyxiation. Well, I’ve listed them before.

Or do we want to talk about Odi? Or Zaki Biam? It’s barbaric that the very army that is meant to protect Nigeria’s territorial integrity is in reality not much better than an armed gang that goes about brutalising the very people it is meant to serve.