By Bukola Ajisola
SIR: It is gratifying to know that 1,000 terrorists have been prosecuted by the Nigerian military and up to 500 jailed.
However this prosecution must have gone through years of judicial processes and the military kept it under wrap for some antiquated military secrecy which is not in consonance with modern global practice.
Despite the public outcry that the government is over-pampering and indulging the terrorists, the military did not deem it fit to update the public.
This adherence to non-disclosure of judicial process is already archaic under democracy.
Nigerians have the right to know the identity of the jailed terrorists so that the society could be acquainted with their perfidious profile and monitor their subsequent activities after their jail term.
It will also help the war against insurgency to narrow down the prosecution to the sponsors of this heinous crime. Until this is achieved, the military would be beating a dead horse.
If the culprits are secretly jailed without being exposed and de-radicalised, the society is still vulnerable to their blood-thirsty ideologies.
The identities of Donald J. Trump’s misguided insurrectionists undergoing prosecution in the U.S are all over the U.S media; why should criminal jurisprudence in Nigeria be given such opaque aberration?
- Bukola Ajisola, bukymany@yahoo.com
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