AN EXCELLENT INFORMED OPINION AND, JUST MY OPINION. Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri wrote: Perhaps my problem is that I am a lawyer and my reasoning is strictly guided by public policy or legal rules. Thus far, I have read all sorts of media and official commentary absolving Ihejirika from complicity in the Boko Haram insurgency as alleged by the Australian negotiator. Personally, I have no reason to believe that Ihejirika was either tacitly or directly involved in fomenting the security crisis. Having said that, we must note that personal beliefs, individual opinions and outright denial do not translate to legal/judicial innocence. That he is Igbo, a Christian, a military general, a friend of the government, a politician et al do not confer on him a status of sainthood or incorruptibility. These defences are not just too shallow and flimsy; but essentially offer no cogent and compelling basis to absolve him from guilt. Under Ihejirikas watch, budgetary allocation to national security worth trillions of Naira did not match spending on military infrastructure; mutiny by junior officers was witnessed; desertion reached a scale never seen before; welfare of security personnel was evidently low while accountability for both budgetary spending and human rights atrocities lagged. Its easy to read motivations into these factual developments. Possibly this is where Davis drew his inferences from. I think both the accusers and defenders of Ihejirika should elevate the quality of the discourse .... I mean moving the conversation away from emotionalism, bias and sentiments toward concrete elucidation of hard facts and evidence-based postulations. I dont want to read your emotions. Keep them to yourself. Tell me something worth thinking deeply about. Convince your readers, please!
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 18:32:36 +0000
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