Nigeria 🇳🇬 Government Inability To Fight Insecurity

The seale of deaths and devastation from sustained attacks by insurgents and bandits continues to outrage Nigerians and the international community who question the inability of Nigerian government to prevent the massacre.

Latest information suggest both negligence and perhaps complicity as a leaked memo suggests. The memo dated Muy 13,2025, reveals that the Department of State Services (DSS) had warned the Defence Headquarters of planned attacks against communities in Mararaba, Vandikya, and Gwer West, pinpointing militin hideouts in Amako, Igbabo, and Tkom forests.

The memo noted that the planned attacks, which had militias holding strategic meetings in Doma Local Government Areu. Despite this timely warning no action was taken even with the existence of Operation Whirl Stroke, the military operation launched in 2018 to root out insurgency and banditry in Benue, Nasarawe, Taraba and Zamfara States. The latest revelation by the leaked memo has sparked concerns about the Bola Tinubu administration's lassitude in protecting the lives of Nigerians. A May 29, 2025 report issued by global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International(Al) put the number of Nigerian lives lost to insurgency and banditry since President Tinubu assumed lendership of the country in May 2023, at 10,217.

With combined military spending of N11.24 trillion for 2023-2025, Nigerians certainly do not get a sense of the money being well utilized. Many suggest the funds disappear into a black hole. Indeed, it is difficult to fault this thinking given the brazenness, with which insurgents engage the Nigerian military, sometimes even taking the battle to military formations.

Scores of valiant young Nigerian soldiers are daily put in harm's way by a government reluctant to give direction to a campaign that has cost the nation billions of dollars and the blood of our young men and women in uniform. Continued insinuations of sabotage and footages from battle fronts showing lamentations from soldiers who accuse government corruption and neglect evidently shows that the Tinubu administration has failed to address these concerns.