Service Chiefs, Generals should be in Kaduna till abducted schoolchildren are released – Bukarti

Security analyst Bulama Bukarti has recommended to President Bola Tinubu that he dispatch service chiefs and generals to military barracks in Kaduna State until the more than 287 schoolchildren abducted by bandits in Kuriga village, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, are liberated.

Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, Bukarti suggested that to counter the attacks, the president should task senior military officers with confronting the insurgents in battle.

“We keep saying the Nigerian military is overstretched, I completely agree that the Nigerian military is handling a lot right now but there are thousands of generals in the barracks, there are thousands of military men in the barracks.

“If I were President Tinubu, I am going to deploy every general, no general will stay in any barracks and no service chief will be deployed in Abuja, all will be deployed to the field and I will give them a deadline, for example, to rescue the current set of boys and girls abducted,” Bukarti said.

He emphasized that it was imperative for the Nigerian government to inform its Western allies that failure to supply the nation with weapons would result in them being viewed as adversaries of Nigeria.

The security analyst asserted that Nigeria cannot afford to remain in such a predicament, with its Western allies continually citing feeble excuses to withhold the weapons necessary to combat insurgency.

Additionally, he counseled the government to eliminate corruption from the spending on law enforcement and security, claiming that corruption is impeding security agencies’ capacity to react appropriately. He also added that soldiers have to be inspired to fight.

In addition to asserting that Nigeria must move swiftly to send troops to the kidnappers’ hideout, Bukarti underlined that the nation has the ability and means to retrieve the schoolchildren who have been abducted.