An immediately actionable perspective on true National Security by Squadron Leader Adefola Amoo (Rtd)

The Security Advisory leading to evacuation of the American Embassy of non-essential staff had a statement reading:

………………..Attacks could happen will little or no warning…………..

What attack is this? Imagine 3am in your home, every home on your street, screams of people being killed, people you know, wives, husbands, children, domestic help, dogs, with houses, cars and other property being set ablaze. Guns, spears, knives, daggers are being used freely against us. This has happened outside towns and cities already. The Americans are indicating that it is now coming into towns and cities.

This is the type of attack being referred to. Unlike the Americans, we can not evacuate. That’s the bad news.

The good news however, is that we can stop this from happening. Me, you, I, us; we are the only ones who can stop it, but first, we need to educate ourselves so we can act immediately.

If you don’t act, you definitely will not survive any such attack.

If you act as recommended here though, there is a very strong chance that the attack will not happen or if it does it is the adversaries that will die.

After years of service and years of watching Nigeria’s security crisis deepen through successive administrations, I am convinced that most Nigerians are misidentifying both the battlefield and the enemy.

To start with, the phraseology in this article will refer to the adversaries as terrorists because The Federal Government in 2013, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026 officially released gazettes and declarations designating them as terrorist organisations. Courts in Nigeria have also done the same. This is indicated in the table below:

THE GUARD RAILS

This is an existential issue for all of us and it needs to be given the best possible chance to succeed. Anything desiring success needs an environment that assures it such success, and for that reason:

–        To the media channels of our ever-sacrificing security services, keep doing what you do; telling your stories. Getting involved in this will open doors to unwarranted criticism.

–        For government media channels, similarly, getting involved will turn this partisan and choke it.

–        For all of us, If I get attacked physically or reputationally, then come back to this again, and again, and again and again because it means what I have put inside this article is the truth.

WHEN CHANGING THE SCREEN STOPS MAKING SENSE

Your phone has a recurring fault. You take it to a technician. He replaces the screen.

The problem returns.

You go back, new technician, same prescription: change the screen. It fails again.

Third visit, third screen. Same result. The phone goes bad again.

As a phone owner, you will very likely stop listening to any diagnosis, appeal, recommendation or assurance to change the phone screen again and start looking for other solutions.

It is exactly the same with combating the terrorists in Nigeria, there has been 3 regime changes occurring on the back of the same promise to end terrorist insurgency.

No solution was delivered and once again within the citizenry there is now another clamouring, belief, conviction and working towards a regime change as the “projected” solution to Nigeria’s terrorist insurgency.

Some amongst us want to change the phone screen again as the solution. We need to stop and let us reason together.

Three regime changes have not ended the kidnapping, the burning down, the over running of communities, the murders, the threats, the violence, the threat and the fear for the future.  

A fourth screen change will not fix this phone. It is time to look deeper and think differently. It starts with awareness, knowledge and understanding of the problem.

WHO IS ACTUALLY BEING TARGETED?

When a military operation strikes a civilian location, what follows is investigations and apologies. The phrase collateral casualties – appears, meaning the civilian was never the objective.

Now ask: when Terrorists raid a Nigerian village at 2am, drag farmers from their beds, slaughter those who resist, and abduct women and children is that collateral damage? No.

When schoolchildren are taken from their classrooms by terrorists in mass abductions? When commuters on a Kaduna-Abuja train are pulled into the Sahel and held for ransom by terrorists? When communities in Zamfara are raided so repeatedly and systematically by terrorists that entire villages are abandoned? When crops are uprooted by terrorists to deny the population food and farmers killed in the farms to make them scared to farm are all these targeting errors? No.

These are not targeting errors.

These are not unfortunate deviations from a military objective.

The civilian is the objective. We are the objective.  You are the objective.

This is the defining distinction between conventional military operations and terrorist strategy that every Nigerian must internalize, understand and hold above every consideration.

The military and security agencies exist as the barrier between that terrorist objective and its fulfilment.

Our security agencies and every one involved are the obstacle.

You, we, us – the farmer, the commuter, the mother, the student, the banker, engineer, the doctor, the newscaster, the journalist, the nurse, the pharmacist, the receptionist, the phone operator, the POS operator, the market women and men, the bus driver, the taxi driver, the butcher, the teacher are the prize.

And you, us, we are the only ones that can stop them.

THE FIRST BATTLEFIELD IS YOUR MIND BECAUSE A UNITED POPULATION IS ALMOST  IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT

Before the terrorists fires a shot on your street, he has already been fighting in a battlefield you may not have noticed: your heart and mind.

The objective on this battlefield is precise. It is to terrorise civilians into a state of helplessness, and to drive a wedge of distrust so deep between citizens and their government that the polity fractures.

Why? Because a fractured, distrustful, frightened civilian population is ungovernable and an ungovernable disunited population can be infiltrated.

How is this achieved? Ask yourself honestly:

• Why do many Nigerians feel more rage toward their government than toward the men killing their neighbours?
  • Why does a security agency conducting an operation in your community feel less welcome than it should?
  • Why has reporting suspicious activity become something people fear to do?
  • Why are the narratives that weaken government authority always better funded and more widely circulated than those that build community resilience?

None of this happens by accident.

Terror is deployed to paralyse.

Propaganda is deployed to redirect anger away from the terrorists.

Distrust is cultivated to prevent cooperation and action.

The result is a civilian population fighting its own government and thereby handing the terrorists exactly the environment he needs to move, recruit, shelter, and supply himself freely within the population.

He does not need to defeat the Nigerian Army.

He only needs Nigerians to stop helping the Nigerian Military, Para-Military and Law Enforcement Agencies.

This isolation is real, it has happened and too many Nigerians are participating in it everyday. Those on X, on WhatsApp, on Facebook, on Instagram, on TikTok, on LinkedIn, in bars, in buses, in offices, in parties, in social circles and everywhere we gather.

So many are obliging the Terrorists. We need to Stop doing this immediately!

Before posting ask yourself am I spreading terror and distrust? Am I doing the job of the terrorists for them?

THE MATHEMATICS OF AN IMPOSSIBLE DEFENCE – 1 SOLDIER TO 300 CIVILIANS.

In conventional warfare, armies face armies.

And even when one force is greater than the other, size alone does not dictate outcome.

A military force of 100,000 facing one of 300,000 can still fight effectively through superior technology, tactics, and skill.

The 1-to-3 ratio is a military problem. It is difficult, but manageable.

Now apply the same mathematics to Nigeria’s insurgency.

The insurgents have declared the entire civilian population as their target. Nigeria’s population is approximately 220 million.. Against that declared target, the combined combat actors including the Nigerian military and all its security agencies are the defending force at a ratio of 1:300

This is the arithmetic: that is roughly one combatant to every Three Hundred civilians.

Can you see the problem?

No military on earth regardless of training, technology, or budget can sustain a defensive perimeter at that ratio. The mathematics alone make it impossible. The military is not the solution because the military cannot be the solution acting alone.

The civilians must be part of the defence in an unconventional conflict.

This is not a political opinion. It is simple arithmetic.

WHAT UNITY ACTUALLY DOES TO A TERRORIST INSURGENCY.

Now reverse the picture entirely.

What happens when a civilian population is genuinely united on security, not naively, not blindly, but purposefully with its government and security agencies?

Security agencies can operate comfortably within the population without fear of backlash, obstruction, or hostile intelligence leaking to the other side.

Communities become the most effective surveillance network money cannot buy. And critically citizens act without waiting for security agencies. They can, on their own initiative, simply deny space to hostile actors: refusing shelter, refusing transport, refusing silence, refusing complicity, refusing transactions, refusing engagement, refusing a comfortable environment.

In this environment:

• The infiltrator is noticed and reported.
  • The collaborator is named by his own family.
  • The weapon cache has nowhere to hide.
  • The insurgent’s logistics, food, movement, information collapse.
  • The policeman at the checkpoint does his work to check for terrorist weapons, ammunition, fuel, food, drones and communications.
  • The immigration officer does his work to check identity and make sure unverified persons do not enter the country.
  • The customs officer makes sure that terrorist weapons, ammunition, communication and explosives is not smuggled as rice nor transported as grains.
  • The EFCC officer looks for financial flows linked to terrorists, flags it and chokes it.
  • None of them accepts bribes, all of them call out any colleagues collaborating and none of them accept intimidation by any superiors as long as the issue is linked to terrorism or terrorists.
  • The morale of security forces rises because they are working with the people, not around them. They are not getting complaints and hostility, they are getting collaboration. They know they will become national heroes as long as whatever they speak about is terrorism.

There has never been a successful insurgency against a genuinely united population. Not one. The insurgent’s entire operational model depends on the gap between citizens and their state. Close the gap, and the terrorists model fails.

THE NIGHT THAT MUST NEVER COME AND HOW TO PREPARE IF IT DOES

Here is the scenario every Nigerian should hold clearly in mind.

One night, not far along the trajectory current trends are building, your community, your town, your city, your estate, your street, your close, your compound will wake up to gunfire at 2am in the morning.

Not distant. At the gate. In the compound. Armed men who did not arrive that night. They arrived months ago. Everybody saw it happening. Kept quiet or abused government or abused the security agencies; but ultimately everyone did nothing tangible except promote the terror being carried out by the people silently invading them.

They were sheltered by collaborators known by some people in the community but whom nobody turned into the security agencies.

They mapped the community while citizens were too busy hating their government to notice them. They identified all the VIP homes, all the schools, all the identified the routes into every home, they observed hard and soft targets, they observed our routines, they know where the armouries are and planting agents that will give them access when that night comes.

That night is not inevitable. But it is preventable only by the work done before it arrives.

And here is where citizens rightly ask:

While we work with government to prevent that night, how do we prepare ourselves if it comes?

The answer has two parts and how well we do the first, determines how severe the second ever needs to be.

PART ONE: DENYING THE ENEMY THE GROUND HE NEEDS

The most effective thing any community can do is make itself an inhospitable environment for those who wish it harm, long before any attack materialises.

Terrorists do not arrive from nowhere. They arrive after a period of quiet preparation. They identify sympathisers, they secure shelter, they move weapons into close proximity of your community, they map routines, they recruit informants, and establish supply lines.

Every one of these activities requires community access.

Deny the access and you deny the attack.

What does this look like in practice?

Know your community intimately. Who is new? Who is behaving unusually? What vehicle has been parked on that street for three days? What face keeps appearing at odd hours? Who is setting up ad-hoc residency that you have accepted as normal? A community that knows itself, gathers itself and comes together to physically evict suspicious activity on firm legal grounds, firm community regulation and immediate action against mobile anomalies leaves no room for a stranger to operate quietly.

Make reporting normal, not exceptional. The culture of silence  “it is not my business” is the terrorist’s most valuable community asset.

Dismantle it deliberately. When reporting suspicious activity becomes a normal civic habit rather than an act of extraordinary courage, the insurgent’s ability to move and operate collapses.

Refuse all forms of complicity. Do not allow presence, occupation, access to those you cannot account for. Do not transport what you have not verified. Do not feed and house those your instinct tells you could harm you.

These are not dramatic acts of heroism, they are your private guaranteed rights of action within your legitimate domain, legitimate dealings, private transactions and right of choosing who you relate with. They are quiet, daily decisions that collectively make an area unliveable for hostile actors. It is your God-Given right to refuse co-operation with those whose only declared intent, aim, precedent and action is to kill you, your family and your friends.

Build relationships with your local security contacts now. Know the name. Know the number. Establish the relationship before the crisis not during it. A community already connected to its security agencies is one that can communicate in real time when it matters most. Do not publicly call out any agency unit or person that is looking like it is not cooperating with you. You would be attacking all the good people in it. What you should do is lodge your observation with their superior unit because that is where the action you are looking for lives and because you might be wrong and the unit is actually constrained.

Build relationships with your local security contacts now. Know the name. Know the number. Establish the relationship before the crisis not during it. A community already connected to its security agencies is one that can communicate in real time when it matters most.

Deploy Cameras. CCTV cameras are a must for those that can afford it. It deters invasion of your privacy. It gathers evidence that can be used in prosecution. It corroborates facts that you report to authorities that enables them to take action in your support.

If you can afford it, have dogs. Dogs are an early warning system. Sufficient dogs in a community of compounds will raise alarm and wake you from sleep. No adversary likes an alert victim because it puts them at risk.

Prepare Obstacles to protect your community. All forms of obstacles delay terrorists, exposes them to counter attack and effective pursuit, whilst increasing the survivability of intended victims.  Do not forget informal paths beside and behind homes and communities.

In cities and towns, as a community, get permits from local authorities to build 24hour manned gates for clusters of streets.  

In your home, every home, prepare things you can throw on the streets to obstruct every meter of the road on the night of any attack. Be creative. Have things you can fling in case you can’t come out and things you can move out if there is time and it is safe to push them out. Things that will burst tyres, injure feet, force vehicles to stop, force people to alight from vehicles.

If everyone prepares now and does it on any such day, you and your entire street will be safe and that is all you need, that is all you are responsible for.   

In the exposed communities and small towns, you need to dig a perimeter around community and insert a mixture of thorned dry bushes and thick branches into the ground standing at least to head height.

A single perimeter of this is good but it is even better to add an inner layer that will force people to turn left and right before appearing in the compound.

Have dogs for early warning and at night insert sticks through out the corridor formed. The sticks should have things blocking the back that will prevent them being pulled out from outside.

All of this will increase survivability, delay attacks and give time to responders to arrive and for communities willing to fight, sufficient opportunity to fight back. From behind protected defences. 

A community that does these things consistently is a community that is actively, powerfully, and effectively fighting this war without a single weapon.

Part Two: If That Night Still Comes

If a community has done the work above, the attack if it comes at all, the attack will be a diminished one. An enemy denied preparation time, denied local knowledge, denied shelter, denied sympathisers, and denied the element of complete surprise is a weakened enemy. The night may still come, but it will not come as the overwhelming catastrophe it would have been had the community been unprepared and unvigilant.

So what do you do if it comes?

Do not panic. Panic is the attacker’s immediate tactical objective. A panicked community cannot communicate, cannot coordinate, and cannot defend. Breathe. Think. Act.

Make noise immediately. Alert your neighbours. Alert your security contacts whose number you already have, because you prepared. The faster the alarm spreads, the faster the response arrives and the shorter the attack lasts.

Move to pre-agreed safe points. Where do the children go? Where do the elderly go? What is the signal? These decisions made calmly in advance, in daylight, in home or community meetings, become instinct in the dark. Decide them now.

Stay off the roads unless necessary. Focus on obstructing the road and pathways. In an active attack, movement without direction creates targets. Shelter in place where it is safe to do so, and let security forces move freely to engage.

Preserve and report everything you observe. Directions of movement, numbers, descriptions, vehicles every detail reported after the event helps security forces pursue, disrupt, and dismantle what attacked you.

The community that prepared together, that denied space together, that stayed connected to its security agencies that community will survive that night and rebuild from it. The community that waited, stayed silent, and did nothing will face something far worse and have far less to rebuild from.

The choice, as always, is made long before the night arrives.

“BUT WE HAVE NO GUNS – SO WHAT DO WE DO?”

This is the question heard most often when civilians are asked to engage in their own security. It is a fair question. It also misunderstands the nature of the fight.

Your weapons in this conflict are your eyes, your voice, your refusal to cooperate with those who wish you harm, and your relationship with the security agencies protecting you. These are not trivial assets they are, as already established, the decisive variable in this unconventional war.

But the question also points to a legitimate structural gap.

Community policing, as currently practised is not the answer.

Volunteer watch groups and unarmed neighbourhood patrols like Community Policing efforts have a role.

But they are not a substitute for sworn, trained, properly armed officers embedded in every community. That is what State Police means.

This is not a rebranding of what already exists.

State Police is the constitutional establishment of entirely new, previously non-existent police forces owned, managed, funded, and operated by State Governments.

Hundreds of thousands of sworn officers. Trained. Armed. Deployed into the very communities from which they were recruited. The officer on your street who knows your name, your neighbour’s name, and who does not belong because he/she is acting as a threat vector of terrorism; that is State Police.

The insurgent who relies on anonymity meets his match not in a distant federal barracks, but at the junction he thought he could pass through unnoticed.

This is the only administration that has moved to make this a constitutional reality pursuing the amendments required to bring it into existence where none existed before.

President Tinubu’s administration has answered the wide spread call and is taking steps to increase the number of legitimate weapons focused on protecting you and planning to place them near you.

The Federal Government understands the requirement for our safety in the face of terrorist insurgency. It is simply legitimate law enforcement capability in the hands of our own brothers and sisters.

No responsible administration is ever going to allow every citizen carry weapons.  Properly supervised, localised law enforcement is the farthest it can ever go.

And yet this is the government some citizens are clamouring to change. It is their right to clamour for change. I just wish to point out something.

The clamour of citizens concerning security should be that the 60 months window is too far. The window should be shortened to 12 to 18 months and training should begin within 12 months.

Communities under active threat do not have five years to wait. The call from the Nigerian people should not be to abandon this process, it should be to accelerate it and support the only government that has done something tangible to make it happen including removing an Inspector General of Police who was allegedly standing against it.

Citizens should be telling this government: you have committed to doing the right thing; now do it faster. That is legitimate civic engagement. That is the voice of a population that understands its security needs and is holding its government to account without handing the insurgent a political victory in the process.

WHAT THE ENEMY HEARS WHEN YOU SPEAK

Nobody may have told you this before, so it is being said clearly now. And in Nigeria today, every time a terrorist attack or military setback occurs, social media and the press fill within hours with exactly the content the enemy needs most.

That’s 38 Million Nigerian online netizens being the communication channel for the terrorist with every post.

These are not 38 Million online traitors. They are not 38 Million collaborators. They simply do not know what they are doing and without realising it, you are serving the enemy’s objectives perfectly.

The mockery. The ridicule. The furious 38 Million posts questioning the competence, the courage, the commitment of the men and women in uniform and their headquarters.

The gleeful sharing of images of military losses. The commentary that strips away the dignity of those who fell.

Ask yourself honestly: who benefits from that content? Not you. Not Nigeria. The insurgent monitoring that feeds on every disparaging post like fuel. His confidence grows – “they are breaking.”

And on the other side of that same screen, the soldier at the frontline, the airman preparing for a mission, the family of a fallen officer they see it too. They feel it too. Morale is not an abstraction. It is the difference between a combatant giving everything and a combatant giving just enough.

Demoralised defenders do not fight at their best. And their best is what stands between you and that night.

Nobody may have told you this before, so it is being said clearly now: when you disparage your military after a loss, you are doing the enemy’s work for him for free.

So what should you do instead?

When an attack happens, when soldiers fall, when the news is bad that is precisely the moment for the population to respond with loud, open, and genuine commiseration. Not silence. Not criticism. Flood social media with condolences to the families. Renew your public statements of support for the continuing effort.

Express trust in the process even when the process is painful. Let the men at the front see that the people they are fighting for are with them not against them.

And go further than words. Find out where the affected families are. Drop a condolence card. Take food. Quietly ask about the children’s school fees and help where you can. Open a small investment in the names of the widow and children.

Sit with a grieving family. Our communal grieving has been effective at lessening the burden of loss long before formal counselling ever came to the shores of Africa. These are not grand gestures they are human ones with effects on the battlefield that loom very large.

When a soldier at the front hears that strangers drove to the homes of his fallen colleagues, fed their children, and sat with their widows something happens to that man that no training manual can produce.

His commitment transforms. His courage finds a depth it did not have before. The morale of a military that feels genuinely loved by its people is a force multiplier that no enemy can purchase or counter.

This is within your power. Today. Without a gun, without a budget, without waiting for any government to act. The question is simply whether you will choose to use it.

Nigeria’s civilians are not powerless. They are, in fact, the single most decisive variable in this conflict more decisive than troop numbers, equipment, or budgets. The insurgents know this. The question is whether Nigerians will know it before that night arrives.

The enemy is in the bush outside the village, town, community and city. In the silence of communities too divided and too frightened to speak.

And he is counting every single day on Nigerians looking in the wrong direction.

Stop changing the screen. Find the fault. Work the real problem.

TWO EXAMPLES OF PROPAGANDA YOU MUST CANCEL FROM YOUR MIND

Propaganda Number 1 A claim is circulating that the 700-plus repentant terrorists who recently graduated from Nigeria’s deradicalisation programme are being recruited directly into the military. This is being shared widely and accepted as fact.

It is terrorist propaganda. It is false.

The Defence Headquarters has stated clearly and on record in the link provided below that no such arrangement exists. No de-radicalisation graduate is being recruited into the Nigerian Armed Forces. https://youtu.be/LRT0fSz_l4Y?si=hbDoavHhvd8cvrO0

Ask yourself who benefits from Nigerians believing this story. Not you. Not Nigeria. The insurgent benefits — because if he can make you distrust the military’s integrity from within, he has won the first battlefield without firing a single shot.

The deradicalisation programme exists because rehabilitating low-level actors who can be genuinely reintegrated into society is internationally recognised counter-insurgency doctrine. It is not recruitment. It is not infiltration. It is not a threat. It is strategy — and it is working.

Cancel this propaganda. Share the correction instead.

Propaganda Number 2 Secondly, here is a narrative circulating that the Tinubu administration has failed on security. Examine the evidence before you accept this propaganda.

The chart above shows that terrorism deaths under the current administration are brought down to levels last seen during the Yar’Adua tenure and lower than at any point in the last fifteen to seventeen years. That is not failure. That is the most significant reduction in terrorism mortality Nigeria has recorded in a generation. The propaganda says otherwise. The data does not lie.

Now look at the election years. 2003. 2007. 2011. 2015. 2019. 2023. In every single one, the data shows a visible spike or sustenance at high levels in terrorist activity. Not coincidence, pattern. Terrorists understand that election cycles create political noise, civilian-government tension, and distracted security attention. They exploit it deliberately, every time, to influence outcomes and deepen division.

We are now approaching 2027. The pattern is already running. The upsurge you are seeing and reading about is not evidence of a failing government. It is evidence of terrorists doing exactly what they always do in election years and counting on you to misread it as something else.

Do not give them that victory.

Here is your chance to start, no cost, no violence, no weapon, no government, do something you all do, something we already do:

It is quite simple;

Remember how the #EndSARS hashtag in October 2020 generated 28 million tweets in the first weekend the protest video circulated. By 9 October 2020, it had become the number one trending hashtag in the world, with over 2 million tweets on that single day alone, trending continuously across the United States and United Kingdom.

Remember the #EndBadGovernance August 2024. This trended nationally and internationally across all 36 states simultaneously, mobilising street protests and online participation.

Remember when Wizkid posted a single comment about the Burna Boy/DJ Tunez clash, it generated over 1 million views and 18,000 comments within 20 minutes.

If we could do it for those issues, then here is our chance to start the end of terrorism today by doing exactly the same thing and posting on this hashtag #NigeriansUnitedAgainstTerrorists along these lines….

#NigeriansUnitedAgainstTerrorists is a hashtag for declaring your personal support to close the national division within which terrorists find space to operate.

Use it in organising active national support, preparation and resilience to end terrorism in Nigeria by closing the space in which the terrorists operate.

Use it to send messages of solidarity, honour, and condolence to our armed defenders in the military/armed services/civilian JTF who have paid the ultimate price defending us and the Tens of Thousands of Victims of the Terrorists.

Use it to organise direct material, financial, and emotional support for the families of fallen and serving personnel near you. It will boost the fighting morale of those in the front and show them that their daily sacrifice is not in vain.

Use it to share knowledge on how communities at street and neighbourhood level can prepare proactively, security awareness, early warning systems, community alert protocols, and physical defensive measures.

Use it to make anti-terror reports and to organise how communities can identify, root out, and report to authorities; terrorist actors, collaborators, financiers, protectors, transporters and informants operating among us.

The enemy counts on our silence. This hashtag ends it. Your posts end it. Posting the military and victims on your profile picture, starting your daily timeline posts with support for security agencies and defiance against terrorism ends it.

Secondly – Discuss this with people around you daily starting now. Give this issue visibility in your social circle. Reinforce each other with conversations. Strengthen each other. Discuss what you see and plan your action with neighbours left, right, up, down, in front and behind you, This is a life and death matter. Act.

……….But will you act or give excuses? We need 200 million of us to be united and we will be undefeatable.

For our brothers permanently secure in diaspora please if you can not support this movement, please do not increase our insecurity by fermenting division amongst us on this issue and thereby compromising safety of our lives, those of our loved ones and by extension, compromising our National Security. We look forward to and welcome your support.

Most of you can say what Nigerians will find challenging to say about the terrorists and the situation, saying those things out loud, relentlessly and non-stop could be the most valuable thing you can do.

So act on #NigeriansUnitedAgainstTerrorists as the first step.

Then look to the same hashtag everyday for the knowledge that those know what to do will be sharing daily and then be the person who cares to learn, to act and to share what we should all be doing with others daily.

Squadron Leader Adefola Amoo (Rtd) writes on governance, economic and security policies in Nigeria.