QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NDA ATTACK

The recent happenings at the elite military training school is bewildering and it has made me a sad man. Just imagine Sandhurst Training School in England taken over by the IRA or West Point in America taken over by the Taliban. That was the feeling I got from the story.

There has been a lot of back and forth and outbursts but the pertinent part is to ask questions. Before that, my commiserations to the families of the departed and especially to the wife of one of the officers that had been expecting a child since 2017. Now that she finally got pregnant the husband had been brutally murdered. It is a shame on Nigeria.

Now my questions: Why did the terrorist come in through the back and the least secured area? I understand that the patrol do not normally visit the area the terrorist went through because it was not considered a security threat. Secondly I ask, Is there an alarm warning system in the NDA? What is the calibration threshold of response? This is because, if they shot sporadically as claimed in various dailies and there was no warning system going up, then there is a problem.

Also is the area of attack covered by the CCTV camera and is it stored in the cloud platform? Also what is the layered security firewall protocol in the Academy and most importantly, what is the estimated response time for an attack on the NDA? If there was no response at all to the attack then it is shocking. At least there is a five minutes estimate response time threshold in military installations. I think Nigerians demand to know these answers.

Rufai Oseni, rufaioseni@gmail.com