Nigerian Soldiers Must Defy Orders from Foreign Collaborationists in the Armed Forces, Prepare to Punish Enemies of Nigerians — Concerned Nigerians

Dear Nigerian Soldiers,

1. We salute you for your tireless valour and determination to defend and protect ordinary Nigerians from internal and external enemies.

2. We acknowledge that Nigeria is an abnormal country ruled by abnormal men under abnormal conditions. We are however disgusted, as we hope you are, by the fact that the abnormal men ruling Nigeria are increasingly serving foreign interests against your fundamental socioeconomic interests and the wellbeing and safety of ordinary Nigerians.

3. In the course of the past year and a half, several investigations by domestic and foreign entities have revealed, to the shock of ordinary Nigerians, that members of the political class, including former and current high-ranking civilian and possibly military public officials, are colluding with external and internal aggressors to the detriment of Nigeria and the existential interests of ordinary Nigerians.

4. This year alone, Nigerians have found out, to our collective embarrassment and outrage, that the Boko Haram insurgency has been secretly funded by foreign bad actors, possibly for many years, and that a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was an active foreign intelligence asset, colluding with external bad actors while he served as the principal officer overseeing national security.

5. We must emphasize, as you surely are aware, that Boko Haram has caused such devastation to Nigeria’s national security and socioeconomic possibilities that the adverse impact of its horrific activities will be felt for many years in Nigeria and other Sahelian countries. On account of the group’s fundamentalist terrorism, millions of Nigerians, including women and children, have been displaced just as hundreds of thousands, including rank-and-file and top-brass military officers, have been gruesomely killed.

6. At present, we are extremely concerned that the collusion of high-ranking public officials with internal and external bad actors is not limited to Sambo Dasuki, especially in light of other recent developments that pointedly suggest that even Nigeria’s current Commander-in-Chief may be a foreign intelligence asset. We cannot overemphasize the potential ramifications of these developments on the safety and socioeconomic survival of ordinary Nigerians, which includes the overwhelming majority serving in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

7. We are, therefore, compelled to issue this reminder to all ordinary Nigerians serving in the Nigerian Armed Forces that your loyalty must always be to the Nigerian Constitution and the Nigerian people, not the hideously corrupt members of Nigeria’s political class, nor your military commanders who may or may not already be compromised by foreign bad actors.

8. We insist that your determination to protect Nigerians must not come at the cost of your conscience. We insist that your valour must not be given at the cost of your commitment to choosing what is right over what is wrong. We insist, that as defenders of Nigerians, our valiant soldiers must remember that they are ordinary members of society, just like us, before they are officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

9. In conclusion, we urge our brothers and sisters in the Nigerian Armed Forces to see themselves as strategic revolutionary actors in the existential struggle for the socioeconomic liberation of all Nigerians. We expect that our valiant soldiers, like the rest of us ordinary Nigerians suffering under the brutal conditions of these abnormal times, will from now on be fiercely vigilant and ready to punish all the enemies of Nigerians in the wickedly corrupt political class. Our total liberation from all forces of contradiction will not come from heaven. We must liberate ourselves.

SIGNED
Raphael Adebayo
FOR: Concerned Nigerians

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