The political opposition will certainly exploit such weakness of the President as we are not fighting a foreign enemy here; the opposition would rather sympathize with the victims and blame the president for the inability of his government to protect Nigerians. If you were a victim you too would blame the president. The political opposition is indicating that it can do better than President Jonathan.

The Nigerian Police and the Nigerian Army are not well organized to deal with local terrorists that live and operate amongst the people because they don’t have the local intelligence and sensitivity required to deal with the problem, hence the indiscriminate use of force by the Nigerian Army with several civilian casualties. All well-meaning Nigerians should be concerned about civilian casualties as none of us would like such to happen in our own community. President Jonathan should seriously consider opening up national debate about “community policing” (as opposed to “state policing”) so that the people are locally equipped to deal with the problem. The community police can receive funding and reinforcement, where/when necessary, to battle such domestic terrorist problems in their communities.