SIR: Ever since the Boko Haram menace burst into our national life, Nigerians have expressed divergent views in tandem with reality that variety is the spice of life about how to curtail and exterminate this assault on our humanity and national psyche.

Throughout the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan, despite the government’s obvious insincerity, politically-motivated interest, falsehood and lies of combating the menace, any person or group with contrary opinion on how the government should prosecute the war were maligned, blackmailed and called names, but since we knew we had a patriotic duty to humanity to save lives, we didn’t allow our voices of reason to be drowned in the cacophony of state sponsored lies and falsehood. In short, the prosecution of the war by the Nigerian government left behind many unanswered questions.

The icing on the cake, which confirmed our long held belief and suspicion of the insincerity, lies, falsehood, propaganda and violation of its constitutional oath by the Jonathan administration in the fight against terrorism was delivered via the confessions of ex-chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh and ex-chief of army staff, Kenneth Minimah valedictory speeches at their passing out parade, where they lamented the underfunding, no equipment and poor morale of the military in prosecuting the war against Boko Haram.

The scandal about how former President Goodluck Jonathan administration prosecuted the war against terrorism is unfolding before our very eyes with the terrifying exposure of stealing and diversion of security funds via Dasukigate. But one thing, which was undebatable is that a lot of Nigerians were saddened by the wanton waste of lives and property by the Boko Haram attack which was an assault on our humanity and national dignity.

However, what that has got one worried and disturbed to provoke this piece, is the seeming happiness of some Nigerians that the Boko Haram menace is still with us. The way, these Nigerians view the attacks on Nigerians makes you want to question their sanity, but since one is not a psychiatrist, we must in view of this development revisit the alarm raised of recent by the former Minister of Power, Prof. Nebo in a media interview that 53 million Nigerians are mentally unstable and therefore admonish the Federal Government to make the regular mental check up of Nigerians, a matter of urgent national priority.
• Nelson Ekujumi,
Lagos.