By Ebele Orakpo
Professor Kyari Mohammed is the Vice-Chancellor of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, MAUTECH, Yola and chair of MAUTECH’s Centre for Peace and Security Studies. Like a lone voice in the midst of those who have raised a chorus against military involvement in the 2019 election, he argues that the military acted within the law. Reminded that the job of the military is to protect the territorial integrity of the nation from external aggression, he asked why soldiers are being used in internal fight against herdsmen, Boko Haram, bandits in Zamfara, IPOB, etc.
YOU can take Boko Haram out of internal security because it is terrorism. But what about the herdsmen/farmers crises, what about the banditry in Zamfara, IPOB in the South-East etc.? These are all areas the military is engaged in. In fact, they are engaged in 32 or 33 operations in the federation. The constitutional role of the military is not only to defend the territorial integrity and…
