HOW MARILYN OGAR GOOFED

  I watched the Deputy director and the spokesperson of the State security Services (S.S.S), Mrs. Marilyn Ogar over the weekend, with so much conviction and exaggerated impetus while defending the former chief of Army staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika before the Press, over the allegations made against him by the Australian negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis who had mentioned former Borno state governor Alhaji Modu Sherriff along with former chief of Army staff General Azubuike Ihejirika as some of the sponsors of the dreaded Boko Haram sect. It beats my imagination that rather than call in the said Dr Stephen Davis and the two implicated persons in the biggest security challenge of our nation, at least for questioning, our intelligence service decided to play the role of an advocate on behalf of the former army chief and even tried to whip up public sentiment by saying that we should be grateful to the army chief for risking his life many times to fight the Boko Haram on behalf of our nation.

  Except the SSS has a more plausible line of investigation to toll, they should not discard any at all. The SSS should bring its full activities to the service of Nigeria and Nigerians and desist from being a partisan group at the services of any political group or persons. Nobody should be made to be above the law, whether they are seen to be obviously defending our nation in this fight against terror as in the case of General Ihejirika or seen to be fighting our nation directly as in the case of Abubakar Shekau,  it will not be the first time in the world that people will be apprehended for collaborating with enemies to wreak unquantifiable havoc on their nation and their people for self-centered, political or financial ends, therefore they should not be so quick to defend anybody but to carry out their professional duty with maximum rigor and impartiality for which they are being paid.

   In fact, at this point and with the magnitude of the damage that the terrorist, group Boko Haram has inflicted on our nation and our people since the commencement of this madness  it is so shameful that some people continue to receive their monthly salaries as the intelligence bureau of our nation without being able to provide any useful information about how the Boko Haram is financed and how and who is responsible for their supply of arms and ammunitions only to come out in the defence of anybody at all when a foreigner is helping them to do the work they should be doing.

  I am not saying that General Ihejirika or Alhaji Modu Sherriff are guilty of the allegations, but we cannot just close down any line of investigation because it sounds strange to us, moreover if the General had been as efficient as the DSS is trying to make us believe then why did the president remove him from the office and replace him with another person? except, of course that our president does not want capable hands to handle the issue of Boko Haram, which is really out of place to imagine. If indeed we have to win the war against terror someday, we must begin to be honest to ourselves and our nation, those who are fighting against us did not come from out of space, they are community members and until we begin to really reach out to expose and indict those who are sponsoring, aiding and abetting them and as such sabotaging our nation we are not yet serious about this fight, what is needed much more than even engaging the field soldiers of the Boko Haram is hitting its intelligence and political/religious ideologists and financial sponsors.

  I have watched the same spokesperson of the SSS, Mrs. Marilyn Ogar  insinuate in a televised broadcast that the opposition party, the A.P.C is behind some of the bomb blasts that have rocked our nation in recent times, and I do not understand why any key opposition party member is not in the SSS custody so far. The state security services (SSS) should know much more than any one of us that such an issue as affects the security and the cohesion of our nation cannot be treated with such a repulsive frivolity, we have made ourselves a laughing stock in the world over the flippant manner in which we are treating this threat called Boko Haram. Our State security services are yet to inform us so far or even provide cogent information about the whereabouts of the over 200 abducted Nigerian girls who are still in the custody of the enemy more than 4 months after their abduction and like our corrupt politicians they too are beginning to play politics with a serious issue as is terrorism that is wreaking so much havoc on our nation and our people. The S.S.S cannot afford to fall into the same ignominious error of the two leading political parties in our country who rather than come to a consensus on how to fight a common enemy are always politicizing such a very delicate and dangerous issue as affects our nation.

  There is no doubt that the Boko Haram have people that are sponsoring its activities, The SSS should do the work that best validates its calling and stop demeaning itself by meddling into political rigmarole, at this point in time, they should realize that everybody is a suspect and until every line of investigation has been exhausted, they should not defend or protect suspected persons. Security issue is a very serious issue.