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You recall well-trained, well-tested people to fight, not new recruits. This is what Gowon did and succeeded in ending the civil war. Why can’t we do that now?

— Akilu Aliyu

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It’s our country, if we are approached, we will tell them the secret.

If Sambo Dasuki has been denied bail after many court orders, how on earth will you allow Kanu to be released? This is a terrorist, killing people. That is madness and stupidity.

But, with the advent of this administration, nobody has called any of us. We didn’t ask for salary or anything, and this committee was dissolved unceremoniously.

Since 2015, nobody has called me, and I believe nobody called Aliyu Gusau, who had been there before me. I took over from him as head of military intelligence.

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