I believe that we are still taking the insurgency lightly. My worry is that people yet don’t know about the doctrine of insurgency. People here don’t know the weight of what has come.
Let me tell you, if you are to be taught the doctrine of insurgency, they are going to tell you that insurgency is the most difficult aspect of warfare. This is because you don’t know your enemy, you don’t where and who your enemy is.
And he is embedded within the community. If you start moving forward, maybe to the East, you will find they will tell you that he is behind you and your back is leaking. So, you see it is a very difficult operation.
Take, for instance, Cambodia and all these places where there have been instances of insurgency, it took more than 20 years to eliminate insurgency there.
Nigerians must not begin to assume that tomorrow, day after tomorrow, this insurgency will be eradicated. No way!
Unless we get our tactics, our weapons and our logistics right, unless we restore the morale of the members of the Armed Forces, because they now have a sagging morale, unless those who fight, the infantry soldiers and the mechanized soldiers, we restore their morale.
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