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According to a video on Arise News, on Tuesday June 8, 2026, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, President of the African School of Governance in Kigali, Rwanda, invoked the words of a former Nigerian military chief to reinforce one of his most alarming claims about the country’s security crisis, that the armed forces cannot be fully trusted to protect ordinary Nigerians from terrorism.
Speaking during an appearance on Arise Prime Time, Moghalu cited retired General T.Y. Danjuma, a former Chief of Army Staff, as a credible and authoritative voice on the issue of collusion between Nigerian security forces and armed groups. He used Danjuma’s public statement to give weight to what might otherwise be dismissed as a controversial opinion.
In his words, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu said, “Ty Danjuma, General Ty Danjuma, former chief of army staff said a few years ago, they collude.
“They collude. If you wait for the armed forces to save your lives, you will all die one by one. That’s him speaking. And he knows far better than me what he’s talking about,” he said.
Moghalu also recalled that former President Goodluck Jonathan had similarly acknowledged that Boko Haram had penetrated his own administration, further supporting his argument that Nigeria’s security institutions have been compromised from within.
These revelations, he argued, point to a deeper national problem rooted in the absence of true nationhood.
Because Nigerians do not share a common identity or purpose, the security structure remains vulnerable to infiltration by groups that exploit ethnic, religious, and sectional loyalties.
Moghalu maintained that the only immediate and reliable solution under these circumstances is the deployment of mercenaries, professional fighters motivated strictly by financial contract, who have no tribal or ideological allegiance to the forces threatening Nigerian lives.
He described this as a bridge strategy while Nigeria works to rebuild and reform its internal security institutions.
