Nigeria: Nation's Security at 51 - Should Soldiers Come to the Rescue?

AS Nigeria marked her 51st independence anniversary, a lot of people queried the moral correctness of using the machinery of the military force to quell armed insurgency in this country despite gross insecurity in the land which has reached an all-time-high in the last one year. While some agree that deep-rooted fears and insecurity have assumed a frightening proportion such that no one member of society now goes to sleep with two eyes closed, others argue, however, that the civil police alone should be allowed to grapple with the menace without the army coming into the picture.