...Our problem has always been with incompetent, selfish, greedy and largely unpatriotic civilian politicians (and not tribe, not religion), who polluted the military class between 1966, and 1999, by getting them involved in politics.
This is not just me talking. Not too long ago, I watched a documentary on NTA 24, which was on Nok Art or Tera Kota. In the course of the programme, the District Head of Nok, while trying to explain that the Nok people never worshipped their art objects, also said that even with the advent of Christianity, and then Islam, the Nok people lived peacefully together with themselves and their neighbours until the advent of politics.
Though he did not use the term politicians, but I do also believe that politics is a socialization tool made up of concepts and principles applied by people, just like communication. It is even more ‘static’ than communication, because its principles and concepts still need to be communicated. It is in communicating these concepts and principles that politicians come in.
If I was too young to know what led to the military class getting involved in politics in 1966, I have read some of the scattered accounts about that coup in some books and media reports. I am however, old enough to have witnessed how unpatriotic civilian politicians have been, since 1979.
The military class really needs to work at educating its rank and file about the need to resist any further pollution by civilian politicians, so we stop having military politicians.
If you are a parent, and you have children who make it a habit to quarrel and fight, and then keep calling you to intervene each time that happens, and you oblige them, it is very unlikely that the children would ever learn how to resolve their differences by themselves. And then, you as a parent would eventually be neglecting your primary duties, while concentrating on the distraction of settling quarrels and fights.
I am not however, suggesting that the military are our parents, in Nigeria.
----BIAFRA:LEST WE FORGET!
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