State Emissary, November 2017. Issue 1 2017 Edition | Page 44

"power do not spring out of
the barrel of guns alone, as
the Marxist -Leninist would
made us belief ,In a
democracy ,the true power
comes from the people ".
Army as it has participated in a number of internal
security operations like ,The Tiv Riots of 1964 and
1966,Western Region Political Crisis 1965, Nigerian
Civil War 1967 -1970 , Maitatsine Religious Crisis
1980-1984 ,The Niger Delta Operation and Boko
Haram Insurgence among others.
However there are other state instrument that can be
deploy to achieve to achieve the goal of keeping
Nigeria as one , dialogue .
the government must respond by giving reasons for
the region to believe in this unity contract,
power do not spring out of the barrel of guns alone ,as
the Marxist -Leninist would made us belief ,In a
democracy ,the true power comes from the people .
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Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari should take a
clue from the former prime minister of Britain, David
Cameron who went to Scotland to plead almost door to
door with the people of Scotland to forget the idea of
breaking away from Britain, Scotland had threatened
should Britain leave The European Union it will secede
from Britain.
Today , Britain is still intact, The Grand Commander of
the Armed Forces of Nigeria must realize you don't use
guns against ideas , only dialogues and constant
communications and seeing that her body language is
not hostile to such agitators.