The ₦5.41 trillion security budget is the largest in history. The children of Oyo are still missing. Hope is not a plan. Here is one.
This column agrees. Unreservedly. That sentence is the most important thing said in any Nigerian public address this year. It is the correct diagnosis. It is the right standard. And it is the standard by which this column — respectfully, precisely, and without sycophancy — will now measure three years of your administration’s security record.
You also said this, in the same speech: “Though this year’s mood is dampened by the abduction of our children in Oyo and Borno, we remain hopeful for their safe return.”
Hopeful! The children of Oriire LGA, Oyo State — 18 primary school pupils, 7 secondary students, 7 teachers — were taken on May 15.
They are still missing as this column goes to press. And the word chosen to
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