Project Summary

“Security is not about arms and ammunition alone… lasting peace cannot be achieved by Security Agencies alone”.

Very correct. That was Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser, reiterating the professional opinion canvassed by Security Chiefs and Experts since 2009. 

What was the NSA saying in simple language? The government is calling for a robust non-kinetic frontier to complement force in its war against insurgency; that non-kinetic capacity holds 80% of the success strength in internal security everywhere; that it falls squarely within the jurisdiction of citizens and challenges Nigerian intellectuals to wake up to their responsibility to the nation. He was absolutely correct.

This intervention, therefore, seeks to provide the framework for a broad national answer to this call. It will particularly, unveil the full length, breadth and depth of non-kinetic capacities which are recognized by the Constitution but ignored by development conversations and governance and how their untapped potentials would be factored into a comprehensive Security Systems Solution that will endure, in view of the effect of scientific hypnotism on the nation’s development knowledge and education which conclusive new studies have fully established.

Now, our current security crisis is the consequence of the failure of the non-kinetic sub-sector of our nation’s security architecture. This failure had been traced to the effect of Scientific Hypnotism on the cardinal elements of the sub-sectors, notably Education, Justice, Democracy and Economic Ideology. But complications sneaked into the problem through the distortions built into the experience by the ignorant effort of those who could mean well and the obstacles that nature and convention do place on the path of new knowledge in transition societies, and both then conspired to make the problem intractable.

This intervention will, therefore, reconcile Nigerians with the reality of these problems and the solution as established by conclusive new studies, so that we can work as a team and with a new national spirit to fix the non-kinetic dimension breeding terrorism and banditry in the nation. This will then enable those in the kinetic sub-sector to do a better and faster job in the total elimination of the menace in the nation. We will then leverage the strong national spirit that is bound to arise from the victory to launch our nation firmly into a knowledge economy, which is the next and only secure destination for every nation at the peak of its transition crisis, like ours and that will compensate our country for all the troubles, as Thomas Jefferson did put it.

 The intervention will, particularly, unveil the full size of the fully established Scientific Hypnotism, which studies have shown to be the most deadly obstacle on the path of Africa’s development progress and which no one could have prevented. Scientific hypnotism is the name we gave to the unimaginable growth-limiting device designed by ancient philosophers as part of the success strategy of imperialism and disingenuously planted into our current education to hold us back, in that age when economic morality permits everything, including slavery and wars. It is the mental version of the physical slavery Africa suffered during colonialism, which no one could have imagined. It deformed our current education and used it to skew our thought patterns so that we are not able to understand or do basic things right in the real economy. The plan was to limit the growth of colonised economies to the primary resource phase so that their people would remain a perpetual market for industrial goods and services of the imperial countries, and it worked for them. This is the hub of our intractable troubles, which can only grow progressively worse until vacated.

What makes this problem dangerous is that it removed the real economy from our education and replaced it with economics. The real economy is the capacity that is grown to meet the needs of the people as the local population expands—its absence in our development knowledge and education leaves a huge gap that nothing else can fill. Given that growing the real economy at our current level of development is made very complex by the hand of nature such that it cannot be achieved by chance, it naturally follows that until we reinstate the real economy into our development knowledge, whatever effort we make to fix today’s complications will be wrong and therefore end up creating more problems for the nation than it sets out to solve inadvertently though.

Our success guarantee: First, the government is genuinely calling for our help in the non-kinetic sector of the insecurity war, which it truly cannot handle. Non-kinetic capacities of national security are essentially socioeconomic and political factors organised according to the nature’s laws so that they are collectively able to commit the majority to the common good. Second, the entrance of scientific hypnotism to take the blame for the past and present mistakes—this will get blame games out of the way so that learning and negotiation on the way forward will achieve a quick consensus without rancour.

Now, these complications were first sighted by a study team set up by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in 1986. The leader of the team, Prof. Ade Adefuyi, described the problem as “British orientation of Nigerian Universities” and insisted that “it has disoriented the products of Nigerian Universities such that they could not really serve their environment”.  So, it is real.

Thirteen years later, another study team set up by the Global Development Community on the platform of the UN Economic Commission for Africa was to confirm this finding of the ASUU study team and provided professional evidence of more elements that are missing in our current development knowledge and education, which cannot allow African economies to grow beyond the primary resource trap until they are fixed. The outcome of this second study formed the foundation of the 1999 Economic Report on Africa, which was endorsed by all stakeholders. The Report described our current growth strategy as “a key mistake of the past 20 years” in the work to grow African economies and was emphatic that it is “fundamentally deficient and cannot lead any African country to a new economic height that is sustainable, which will be required to avert today’s complications, even if the country is managed by angels”. Twenty-five years down the line, Africa has continued on the same trajectory, not just in Nigeria, and its development fortune has continued its downward slide. Unless we make a decisive intervention with advanced knowledge that can change our development course, the trend will get progressively worse.

We will recall that since 2001 when the effort of African leaders to develop the alternative ideology or concept which alone can solve this type of problem derailed, all Nigerian governments across partisan line had also confirmed that a new and advanced development knowledge is indeed required to meet the growing needs of our large population; confessed that government is not in the position to develop and implement the advanced concept without organized and lead support from the elite community— which is absolutely correct, and had called on those who can to come forward and assist, like their counterparts in model countries do when their society run into big problems that regular knowledge cannot resolve, to no avail apparently. The reason is partly that our current policy structure has no windows for alternative knowledge, and partly that the major elements of the civil society, which elsewhere helped transition countries to cross this last hurdle to development, have refused to play the same role for Nigeria. This left all governments with no other option but to continue with the deficient orthodox concept in different packages to this day. This is what has built up to today’s complications.        

What makes this intervention imperative is that those who are caught in the web of the knowledge deficit problem will hardly realise they have the problem, let alone think of how to free themselves from the web or do basic things right, including governments, until they are helped out with superior knowledge delivered by a community or process that they cannot ignore.

Thus, only the Alternative or Advanced Economic and Security Ideology delivered through broad national dialogue and guided to elite consensus by the university community will resolve the confusion around the scope of non-kinetic capacities and their pre-eminent role in national security; reset our thought pattern, democracy, development orientation and economic direction for real peace, sustainable security and inclusive prosperity that will sustain through ages. This is a key part of what this intervention is out to facilitate.

Some specific objectives of the intervention are:

1. To reconcile Nigerians and the Nigerian State with the details of our real problems and solutions as established by conclusive new studies, but which are strange to our current development knowledge and orientation. This will then persuade all sides to bury the hatchet and work together as a team with a new national spirit to get our nation out of the vicious cycle and firmly onto a new growth path that will be sustainable, just like the people that we admire today did for their countries at times like this.
2. Facilitate a broad national coalition to tackle the current terrorism and banditry from the distortions in our current education, justice and economic ideology, which are jointly breeding and spreading the monsters before it is too late; just like the military chiefs and, lately, the National Security Adviser had rightly and repeatedly advocated;
3. Facilitate elite consensus on some unconventional strategy to activate the large expanse of the dormant capacities of the national economy and use them to end large scale unemployment, under-employment and extreme conditions as a deliberate strategy to: (1) complement force in the effort to end wide spread security challenges in the nation; (2) protect the gifted thinkers that the economy will need to contest for more shares of the global resources going forward; (3) expand the shoulders that will carry the burden of essential subsides to make the burden friendly for the society and; (4) to give the economy the comprehensive big push that it will need to take off effectively in the new order and height;
4. To introduce the nation to the Alternative Development Ideology or Concept, which is nature’s formula to grow an economy when the local population grows beyond the size that can be sustained by primary resources alone. Chopped off from our current education by scientific hypnotism, it predicates economic growth on an advanced justice system so that every citizen is persuaded to commit their all to the growth of the national economy, wherever they may find themselves around the world, and;
5. To introduce a new and real Economy Development and Growth Education which will unite Nigerians around the best of all that is true and just for the nation and citizens, upgrade the intellectual content of our human resources and align the mindset of citizens from childhood with the thrust and habit of knowledge economy to guarantee progressive expansion of the new order across ages.

All of these and the complex issues that are bound to arise from them will then work in a coordinated manner to drive the expansion of the domestic capacity to always keep a reasonable pace with population growth. This will naturally ensure that, at no time, shall a large number of citizens be pushed to extreme conditions where they will be left with no other option but to stake their lives for survival, which translates into banditry and terrorism.

Thank you.

Dr. Emma Anoliefo

National Coordinator Technical