Damaturu was attacked by the insurgents from about 5am on Monday and the military or the armed forces, battled the insurgents and controlled the situation.
So many lives were lost but at this moment, we cannot determine the exact number of the dead and so many were also wounded and of course, psychologically, hundreds of thousands of Yobeans and even Nigerians are traumatised for that incident.
I want to say this that a war is not won by the name of the operation; a war is won by the operators of the operation that operate in the theatre of war.
Our soldiers were determined to fight the insurgents, they fought very gallantly and exhibited valour and they did that because they have motivation not because there was any state of emergency existing.
The significance of what happened in Damaturu should not be lost on us. I believe that we can win this war if we all come together, get the proper leadership, support the leadership across all the three tiers of government and across all the political parties.
I believe that this war is winnable and I believe that if we do the right thing, we will get the right result that we saw yesterday.
No comments:
Post a Comment