On Boko haram and the victory claim by Federal Government:

On Boko haram and the victory claim by Federal Government: couple of months ago, when President Muhammadu Buhari made a pronouncement on a deadline for an end to the war on Boko Haram, I felt so exhilarated; first I saw the pronouncement as an ambitious target by the government and I believe that is how modern day government works, the other point is that I believe we cannot fight the war endlessly without having a timeline.
I am however worried about recent pronouncements by the government on the success of achieving the said target. It seems to me that the government did not fully understand the merit of the idea of deadline. It seems to me that the present administration has found its self desperate to make claims on achieving the targets it has set for itself. It almost seems to me that the government thinks that success or failure would be predicated on meeting the set deadline. I completely disagree with this stance.
Apart from the afore mentioned points, the deadline was supposed to be a point for us to re evaluate our efforts and decide on whatever was left.
Ideologically speaking, the fight against terror would not be won on the battle field, the war would be won by sustained process of social and economic re engineering within the embattled zones; and that cannot be achieved in a short time, indeed it may take more than the lifespan of one administration to achieve it.
On Christmas Day, an attack by Boko Haram left 14 people dead in Borno, but the shocking thing is that the news did not break. Indeed it only became reported on the 27th. Prior to that, the information minister had insisted that it was wrong for the media to carry news on BH attack on soft targets. He reiterated his position yesterday when he visited the Punch news paper house. His thrust was fueled by his defence for the government's claim on meeting the December deadline, and he believes the reportage would work against government's claim.
The first thing the minister missed is the ideology behind the deadline. I do not think anyone would score this government poorly on the issue of security, particularly on BH. indeed I believe the government has done remarkably well as we already envisaged.
The second part is to bring to the consciousness of the minister that the worst havoc ever wrecked by BH has being on soft targets and not on the military as it were. The Chibok girls and other captures, the Nyanya bomb blast, the Kano bus park attack, the UNIJOS amphitheater attack etc.The images of the remains of these gory attacks cannot be easily erased from our minds.
We cannot run a government by propaganda, even if we try, we cannot develop ourselves through propaganda.
My takeaway and advice to the minister is that the war on BokoHaram is far from over, it is far from being won, and can that never be an indictment on a government that has being moving in the right direction on the issue.

DEEP THOUGHT

DEEP THOUGHT: our comments are becoming so sentimental, opinions are now so partisan, the most dangerous trend is that 85% of us are not members of any political parties, yet we defend our affiliations as if we are part of them; we are not. Nigerians (youth especially) must wake up, criticism based on party affiliation would not move us forward.
Every time you make a comment these days people would say you are either PDP or APC, nobody cares to look at the substance of your arguments again. This  unprecedented trend would not foster constructive criticism which is supposed to be a panacea for national growth and it is now very worrisome. lets turn a new leaf in 2016. #MyOpinion