Femi Fani-Kayode, Former Minister of Aviation, has condemned the Nationwide Chief of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, over his name to recruit a minimum of 50 million youths into the Nigerian Military to assist deal with insecurity.
Tinubu had charged the Federal Authorities to take this step whereas talking at a colloquium to have a good time his 69th birthday in Kano State.
Fani-Kayode whereas reacting to the assertion of the previous Governor of Lagos State, requested how the Federal Authorities would supply weapons for the 50 million youths.
He additionally questioned, how the Nigeria authorities pays them or if they’d battle totally free.
The previous Minister in a sequence of put up wrote on his Twitter account, “You have got requested for 50 million youths to be recruited into the Nigerian Armed Forces & everyone seems to be clapping for you. Do you’ve 50 million weapons to present them or do you anticipate them to battle with sticks & stones?Do you’ve a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to pay them?”
“Or they battle totally free? Do you’ve sufficient meals to feed them or will they battle on empty stomachs? Do you’ve sufficient lodging to deal with & maintain them or will they sleep within the streets & fields? Do you’ve sufficient automobiles, automobiles, buses, tanks, planes, fighter jets, boats, battle ships, plane carriers & submarines or will they stroll, jog, swim & fly on a broomstick into battle?”
“Do you’ve sufficient hospitals to deal with them in peace & warfare time or will you fly them overseas for remedy after they fall sick or have been blown up in battle by …rocket propelled launchers and land mines? Allow us to get actual! It’s not the scale of the Military that counts or the variety of troopers you’ve however moderately their combating functionality, professionalism, patriotism, self-discipline, coaching, logistics, provide traces, help and weaponry.”
“For those who put all of the variety of army personnel collectively from the nations of your entire developed world, together with Europe, America, Russia, China, Israel, Brazil, Egypt and Turkey, they don’t quantity as much as 50 million troops. Allow us to cease working round in circles.”
“If we actually need to win the warfare in opposition to terror & save lives it’s not in regards to the variety of troopers we have now however in regards to the political will, patriotism, love for nation & braveness that our Authorities & each single considered one of us as residents should domesticate and show as a individuals.”
“With out all or any of these noble qualities we wouldn’t have a hope in hell of profitable any warfare, not to mention one that’s being waged in opposition to the primary and fourth most threatening terrorist organizations on the earth like Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen.”
