Nigeria’s ongoing security crisis won’t end until the government confronts complicity within its own ranks, according to television journalist Rufai Oseni. Speaking during a morning broadcast on Wednesday, he argued that kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism continue not because of insufficient resources but because those in power are collaborating with criminals.
The evidence is damning. Oseni pointed to the in Woro, Kwara State, where residents reported threats to security authorities only to be slaughtered days later by bandits who somehow knew they’d been reported. Hundreds were abducted. The question practically asks itself: how did the criminals get that information?
“There have been many people that are in and around the government being linked to this level of insecurity, and they are walking free today,” Oseni said. He even mentioned state governments posing for photographs with known bandits, a practice that would be unthinkable in a serious security environment.
His central argument cuts deep. More security operatives or even state police won’t solve anything if those same officials are tipping off the very criminals they’re supposed to stop. The infrastructure exists. The will apparently doesn’t.
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