Role of Hard Drug and Government Ministers in Nigerian Insurgency A review

Abstract

To level an allegation against the Buhari administration and its Chief Ministers of involvement in the promotion of insurgency is easy. But to prove it in a short study of this nature is difficult because it requires an elaborate study and perhaps one beyond the capacity of a single write up and writer. It is an ideological issue that requires a concerted ideological framework. The velocity with which insurgency over-shadowed the nation in Buhari’s administration which was voted into power because of the ideological-thinking that, he was most suitable to confront the menace coming from a vast military background, as a Retired Major General in the Nigerian Army and a former Military Head of State, leaves no better room than to hold his government responsible! The attitude and disposition of his Ministers and Security Advisers right from the onset did not help his case. It appeared as if the nation was hoodwinked and taken for a ride by him when it is viewed from the background that the ethnic nationality of the Fulani which he represents has been fingered with clear evidence to be behind the insurgency. This paper which uses doctrinal method examines the roles that the Communication Minister, border areas, hard drugs and other Security Advisers in the Buhari administration had played in the sudden upsurge of terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. It finds that there is a direct relationship between insurgency and its sponsorship by the administration. To plead a case of condonation is to understate the relationship. The President’s dual nationality of being maternally Nigeria and paternally Niger even aggravates or consolidates the alleged relationship. The level of unprecedented collaboration between the two countries during the reign lends much credence to the truth and the affirmative. This paper thinks that until the exit of the administration in 2023, there may be no let-up in insurgency and terrorism and that is on the assumption that the twin evils may not jeopardize the 2023 election.