OPINION: Melete killings: A reality check for Buhari's administration by Oladeji Olaniyan

"The desperate opposition party view  it as a good opportunity to leverage on so as to increase their scorecard against the 2019 imminent election whilst the incumbent still reels out their usual lines of rhetorical statement."

Some weeks ago, a major proportion of our dear country's defense hub was fatally crush by counter insurgents. A handful number of the Nigerian young soldiers were reported to have been sent to their unwanted early grave. The mainstream media led the trail of breaking the unforeseeable tragic news to the populace. Some of the reports reads that over  hundreds of the military men lost their lives although the military, in their usual manner refuted the claim of the media houses without  a substantial internal estimates.

The timeline of the report by the Nigerian military is something left to be questioned, it more or less a brazen thing that an external body should have a more accurate and timely information about our military men than themselves, it totally defiles logic but guess what? This is Nigeria! , where the even the international communities have more detailed information as regards critical matters in our country than the president and the presidency, what a national ignominy!

The cruel carnage orchestrated by the Bokoharam sect on our young soldiers has brazenly become a tool for the blame game and politicking by our fogies political party. The desperate opposition party view  it as a good opportunity to adequately leverage so as to increase their scorecard against the 2019 imminent election whilst the incumbent still reels out their usual lines of rhetorical statement.

Its so painful and heart troubling that such a critical national issue that demands almost immediate response from all stakeholders , well meaning Nigerians and importantly, the President and its cabinet, is been used as a medium to count political scores and finger pointing, what a country?

  The abrupt resurgence of the "tactically defeated" bokoharam sect is an occurrence that led to the wanton killing of our soldiers has left many including me in the valley of deep thought and obscurity considering the fact that this current administration led by APC in 2015 when they assumed the position of the nation's leadership were apt to declare the extermination of the dreadful sect while in  reality little or nothing was done abate this dreadful sect.

  This is because afterwards, there have been cases of attacks by terrorists group which the toothless and bought Nigeria News media failed to report. A major attack was also perpetrated recently which occurred and seem to many both locally and international as a mere doctored movie , the popular Dapchi school girls adoption is what I am referring to.
 
The government has consistently fail in their perceive area of strength to live up to the expectations of the citizenry. Its high time the government realised that sweet-tonguing the citizens as regards critical matters in the country would merely last but for a moment. it is important for the government to prioritise funding the military in all sincerity and channel all the funds budgeted to the rightful quarters. The ugly incident at melete is a depiction of the poor funding of the military and the weakness and  porousness of our defense base.

  Our overfed and overpaid pensioners,  the National Assembly has threatened fire and brimstone as regards probing the cause of the killings and those funding the bokoharam sect, I hope they will swing to action in earnest though this would serve as an additional means to amass more of our nation resources.

As they are preparing to probe the funding of Bokoharam, I hope they will bear in mind to reduce and donate some portion of their nationally secretive salaries and diverse allowance such as wardrobe allowance, sitting allowance, convenience allowance et cetra to the military. I hope the Buhari government would wake up to reality that nothing built on propaganda last forever. A greater than this maybe around the corner.
Will they ever wake up?

Oladeji Olaniyan is a student journalist at OauKilonshele.
He can be best contacted through olaniyanoladeji16@gmail.com
Twitter: oladeji_ymcmb.