A Nation Has Now Emerged Inside Nigeria, Senator Ndume, Chairman, Senate Committee On Army Claims.

What looks like a near-collapse of the country emerged on Tuesday as a Senator of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria claimed that a nation is already emerging inside the entity called Nigeria.

Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno south, claimed that already, there are two nations in Nigeria as Bandits operate in a nation alongside the citizens, adding that situations are now arising that residents have to negotiate for their life with criminals to allow them to exist in peace.

He added: “Never in the history of this country has Nigeria been challenged from various angles like this time”

Ndume, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, added that already, even the Nigerian army has had to ration ammunition among all its personnel describing it as a common practice among the soldiers.

Hear him: “In Shiroro, residents have entered into negotiations with criminals to allow them to exist in peace. In Nigeria of today, we have a government within a government and all these are because of security.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, Ndume said the army rations ammunition among its personnel and that this practice is “common” among the soldiers.

The senator, who called for improved efforts to boost the performance of security agencies, said the army has continually blamed its poor performance of curbing insurgency in the north-east on lack of funds.

“Never in the history of this country has Nigeria been challenged from various angles like this time. It has gotten so bad that in this country of ours, citizens have resorted to negotiating with criminals to live in peace,” the chairman of the Senate committee on army said.

He continued: “When we confront the Nigerian army, ‘why are you not performing?’, they will tell us ‘we don’t have money; we only manage with what we have.’ Up to my own village, Gwoza, which used to be the headquarters of the so-called caliphate, it was getting used to Boko Haram attacks.

“I interact with the armed forces very regularly. It is so bad that the Nigerian army is rationing ammunition. Rationing is common. They ration ammunition. I can be quoted, I have gone round the formations; I have not seen a Nigerian soldier holding a brand new AK-47 yet.”

Ndume’s comment comes amid concerns about funding for the army.

In the past years, funding expectation s for the army has never been denied and billions upon billions have been dispatched with no holding back which the result of military action on the current chaos and insurgencies in the country had been more of failure and much ineffective.

The situation on ground points to the fact that there is a deliberate looting of nation’s defence budget and the stakeholders compromising the security of the nation are are accountable. This gives meaning to the fact that Nigeria is currently compromised and non-existing as a major war of take-over of the land by the big powers is consolidated as the nation has been compromised.

An analyst feared:” We are in tenterhooks and those in government are pretending all is well”

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, in her own shocking revelation had said that the federal government released 100 percent of the sums earmarked for the military in the budgets of 2019, 2020 and first quarter of 2021.

In 2017, the national economic council (NEC) had approved the withdrawal of $1 billion from the excess crude account (ECA) to buy arms to combat the insurgency in the north-east.

On Monday, Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, challenged the Federal government to account for the arms.
Ali Ndume, has always reiterated that he disagrees with the Federal Government’s move to rehabilitate and reintegrate repentant Boko Haram members.

His position which was the same as that of the committee was made known on Wednesday at the closed-door budget defense session with the Nigerian Army.

Ndume has always warned that Ex-Boko Haram members would tantamount to misplacement of priority, stressing that the Federal Government cannot be resettling bombers and overpampering all former terrorists as the country appears to be at at war.

“I am in disagreement with the government,” Ndume said, stressing further noted that Boko Haram members who have been apprehended should be kept as prisoners adding that in due time they should be profiled and tried in accordance with the law.