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The Ogbaru Massacre And The Reasons For The Persistent Insecurity And Massacres In Southeast – By Barrister Aloy Ejimakor

Ridwan Deola by Ridwan Deola
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Before post-colonial Nigeria lapsed into its current unitary state, while still passing off as a federation, regional security was largely within the purview of the respective regions, not the federal government. And it worked pretty well.

This basic arrangement was not by chance but by well-considered design. Despite their many failings, Nigeria’s indigenous founding fathers and the departing British colonists knew too well that you cannot secure a people within their region without their participation.

Even the mighty British empire knew too well that it couldn’t secure colonial Nigeria without the participation of Nigerians in vast numbers.

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In a diverse federation of equals (or even near-equals), Northern Nigerians shouldn’t be the ones exclusively or dominantly securing Western or Eastern Nigeria, and vice versa.

When you do that, it becomes counter-intuitive to security and begins to look like belligerent occupation or conquest. It also destroys the neutrality of the security personnel, engenders ethnic profiling and extrajudicial killings.

Massacres won’t happen if there’s no premeditation, driven by sectarian impulses and lack of compatriot empathy often exhibited by some security personnel when it comes to law enforcement of the kind that comes with ethnic connotations.

Even when the targets of such law enforcement are unarmed and amenable to arrest, the risk of ethnic-tinged massacre remains very high when the personnel is lacking in national spread.

The dangers of an imbalanced security leadership for Nigeria is the reason the framers of the Constitution enacted at Section 217(3) that “the composition of the officer corps and other ranks of the Armed Forces of the Federation shall reflect the federal character of Nigeria”.

In plain terms, it means that no region or tribe shall be markedly excluded from securing Nigeria or any part thereof, especially its own part.

But today, the opposite is the case as Southeast officers and ranks are significantly redlined from all critical security formations, particularly the ones based in Southeast. It makes no sense and it is unconstitutional to boot.

The same Constitution states that “the composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies shall ensure that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few States or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or any of its agencies”.

This means that the Southeast shall be equal partakers in the opportunities of the Nigerian enterprise. But it is not and uniquely so. This is wrong, ungodly and it runs counter to the notion of #OneNigeria.

To be sure, there’s no better contradiction to the unity of Nigeria than this profound injustice that appears to have become the norm and persisted since 2015.

And this: Southeast being continually absent from the table partly explains why each time the witch cries at night in the Southeast and the baby dies in the morning, the authorities jump to conclusions that it’s the witch that killed the baby.

In other words, almost every incidence of insecurity ends up being blamed on the people of the Southeast, such that they are now left with no other option than rampant resentment, widespread alienation and popular agitation.

Aloy Ejimakor is a lawyer. He can be connected on Twitter via @AloyEjimakor.

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