ONYEDIKACHI🤑💙

Dear Brigadier General Dikko, our mothers did not raise their sons for Borno Dear Brigadier General Dikko, 1. You lamented that Abia State could not produce even 100 recruits for the Nigerian Army. 2. You wondered how you would explain this failure to your superiors. 3. But General, perhaps you are asking the wrong question. 4. What exactly is the Nigerian Army desperately seeking in Igbo youths that the NNPC, FIRS, EFCC, Customs and Immigration are not equally desperate to find? 5. Why must southeastern inclusion become urgent only when rifles are involved? 6. Nigeria fought a devastating war to prevent the Igbo people from leaving. 7. Perhaps Nigeria should concentrate on protecting the people it fought to retain, rather than lamenting their reluctance to become its protectors. 8. Times are changing, General. 9. A generation is emerging that understands that patriotism is not measured by willingness to die. 10. A farmer feeds civilisation. 11. A doctor preserves life. 12. An engineer builds nations. 13. An entrepreneur creates prosperity. 14. These are also forms of national service. 15. Some warn that without military recruitment today, the Southeast may have no generals in thirty years. 16. But General, perhaps in thirty years, these young people will own hospitals, industries, farms and technological empires. 17. Tinubu never became a general to command the protection of generals. 18. The military exists to protect citizens, not merely those who enlist. 19. And before you recruit another mother's son to fight insurgents in the never ending Borno war, remember that his life is not a statistic. 20. His mother cannot embrace a military medal. 21. His children cannot eat a posthumous citation. 22. If fewer than 100 youths volunteered, perhaps you should investigate why public confidence has diminished, rather than lament their absence. 23. Help these young people find other meaningful opportunities. 24. General, the Igbo youth is not a recruitment quota. His life is not expendable. 25. A generation that chooses to build rather than fight has not necessarily lost its courage. 26. Perhaps it has finally discovered the value of its future. 27. If you still need soldiers, ask Soludo, Rochas, OUK, TA Orji to send their sons.