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Oyewale Femi, the President National Association of Online Security Reporters (NAOSRE) has described as unfortunate the killing of farmers in Borno State over the weekend at a time the country is grappling with the humongous challenges in food sufficiency.
AllNews reports that Oyewale in a statement issued to journalists on Monday lamented the death of the innocent and unsuspecting farmers in Borno State.
The NAOSRE president pointed out the recent unprecedented rainfalls that over flooded farmlands in some parts of the northern region, a development that would orchestrate food scarcity in the months ahead.
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He, however, takes serious exception to the calls, in certain quarters, for the sack of service chiefs.
He pointed out the Nigerian Army is currently overstretched as it engages Boko Haram in the northeast, tackles bandits in Kaduna, Katsina, Adamawa, Sokoto, Niger as well as fights Biafra separatist, kidnappers, killer herdsmen, cow rollers, and cultists.
“The National Association of Online Security Reporters, NAOSRE, has been working closely with operatives in the military and to the best of our understating, the military is not only underfunded but its personnel is overstretched.
“The call for the sack of service chiefs, therefore, is uncalled for. Rather, such efforts should be channeled at persuading the government to increase the funding of the military,” he solicited.
Above all, Oyewale stressed the need for the additional enlistment of able young men and women into the military saying that “with a population of over 200 million, the numerical strength of our military personnel, in comparison to the population, is incongruous.”
He added that other military and paramilitary formations should be well equipped to live up to their responsibilities in providing internal security while the army concentrates on border and external intrusion.
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