On the unnecessary carnage by the Nigerian Army in the East

 What the Nigerian Army is doing in the East is not acceptable in this modern time.

No matter the provocation from unidentified gunmen, the regular recourse of soldiers to kill civillians and burn down communities, properties and means of livelihood cannot and will never be accepted by international conventions and laws that govern civillised countries.

The standard operating procedure in such acts of violence against soldiers is for both police and military officials to track, identify and capture the culprits with a view to bringing them to justice.

Such actions and unacceptable conduct by the military in the East, as exemplified by the recent episode at Awo-Mmamma in Imo state, reinforce the negative view of Nigeria by Ndigbo as well as serve to sustain negative propaganda against the Federal Government.

Not even in the north where soldiers and security forces have been brutally killed by terrorists and military installations have been severally laid waste, have the military retaliated against civillian populations the way they have done repeatedly in the East.

The Government must show that there are thinking men, homo sapientes, in its corridors of power who have learnt the rudiments of engaging a distrustful civillian population in 2021, under a democratic dispensation.

The Governors and political leaders of the East must muster the courage to engage the Federal Government in order to rein in the military and keep contact between them and civilian populations to the barest minimum.

Not even in the islamic terrorists over-run northern states do these soldiers react like this to the daily criminality and mayhem visited on both security personnel as well civilian populations.

The Army needs to disengage it's men in the East and move them to where they are most needed in the North.

May the souls of soldiers and civillians killed rest in peace. Amen.