An urgent test of governance now emerges from the abduction of six Directors of the Ministry of Defence. In a period of heightened insecurity, how does a ministry charged with intelligence gathering, defence coordination and the protection of the nation send its own senior officials for a promotion exercise through the Kabba Lokoja highway, one of the most notorious corridors of kidnapping in the country The matter becomes more troubling when it is revealed that the abducted directors are all women, all Christians, all from the South and mostly from the Southeast.
If an institution that cannot provide security for its own officers is responsible for the protection of over two hundred million citizens, what credibility remains of government assurances Can the Presidency dismiss the growing suspicion within the public space that these women may have been deliberately exposed to danger to purge Christians and southerners from the Ministry and open space for ethnic replacements Nigeria is now confronted with a question that shakes the legitimacy of the state. When the Ministry of Defence cannot defend its own, who then defends the nation?
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