Nigeria’s security architecture is a pure yoyo. Otherwise, how can you explain that more than 300 terrorists could descend into a supposedly medium-security prison in the nation’s capital without being detected. I mean the possibility that those guys were able to organize, plan and execute this without being detected tells you that everyone living in Abuja needs a white flag.
People theorize the mirage of 100 men on motorbikes kidnapping hundreds of people, moving from one location to another, in a nation with GSM telecommunication infrastructure, and no human can claim they know their whereabouts. Do they move as spirits? O di egwu.
But this Kuje prison breach tells me that indeed these terrorists are mystical – they are invisible to all and everyone including the specials who claim they sabi. And when you have those aliens, like in the Willie Willie horror TV show (Hot Cash) of the 1980s, you wave white flags, to chill the rampaging spirit of Willie Willie!
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“How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility? How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?
“I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organise, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it?” Nigeria’s president (Buhari) on visiting the prison
In the village those days, as kids, during moonlight plays, we would say “ojuju calabar is coming; run run run”. Get your white flag, you may need it as you run. Ogwu si go [it is finished] . But hope dey with 2023 on the horizon though!
(I am using Calabar in lowercase as I do not really know which Calabar is referred to there. But as an adult, I do think that the reference could be that Calabar supplies more than 60% of all masquerade designs, used during festivals, in most Igbo lands. And kids run when they see them. Being “imported” from Calabar could have connected that mystical play.)
2023 cannot be more important!
On Tuesday evening, terrorists attacked Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The attack was successfully executed through the use of explosives that altered the security of the facility.
According to the Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Magashi, about 600 inmates broke out of the Medium Security Custodial Centre. He told journalists that the attack was carried out by suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect.
“They came in with high explosives they attempted the initial entry with a very high explosive, but they were unsuccessful.
Boko Haram Breaches the Security of Kuje Correctional Center, Frees its Members
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The people promising you security are after your life, so it’s for you to decide if they are allies or enemies.
You cannot capture power by spreading falsehood and hate without being cursed, some things are predestined.
Our beloved country is run by mercenaries, and they are not hiding it anymore; they just helped themselves via Kuje prison this time.
Time will take care of everything.