From Fisherfolks in South America to Livestock ‘gangs’ in Nigeria, US Presidential vision for Department of war and 900-billion-dollar US Military Industry!
For a President who keeps eyeing the Nobel Peace Prize as his most coveted trophy for now, the US President does find it difficult to curb his love for violence both in action and words. The most strategic expression of his passion is the renaming of Department of Defence to Department of War. But, then to be functional Department of War needs War to take action and satisfying that need is giving US President sleepless night, no one seems to appreciate his predicament.
After using the expertise of US
Military to bomb small fisher boats with fishermen to smithereens, the most
powerful US tech military industry is busy sharpening their skills to address
the greatest national household crime in Nigeria [1], the livestock theft. From
total of 51.8 million household crimes, the largest share is that of livestock
theft which accounts for 18% of total crime, followed by theft of crop which
accounts for 15.8 percent and among the lowest is theft of motor vehicles which
is around 0.6 percent of all crime.
When considering intentional
homicide, it is reported at 15.75 per 100,000 people in 2023 [2] and this is
lower than figures for some cities in US, for example it is 54.4 for St. Louis
MO in 2024, New Orleans LA it is 34.7 and for Washington D.C it is 27.3 [3].
In case of number of terrorism related death in Nigeria it was 565 [4]. Even at the global level the total number of terrorism related deaths for 2024 was 7,555 [5]. At the same time, making their bias crystal clear, the Global terrorism Index mentions increase of 270 per cent in incidents targeting Jewish communities in US but not even a mention of Israel’s Genocide or acts of terror, the fact it has killed over 66,000 Palestinians in last two years along with hundreds of thousand unaccounted for under the rubble or maimed for life. Yet, Israel does not figure as a major actor in terrorism, except for false claims of it being the eternal victim of terrorism.
According to Wikipedia data on religious and politically motivated crimes in Nigeria [6], most of the massacres that occurred for 2025, from March 28 to June 21 were carried out allegedly by herdsmen. Sixteen deaths that occurred on March 28, 2025 was mob related; 16 Hausa hunters were lynched by a mob. In all the other nine instances which together accounted for 489 deaths were carried out herdsmen.
US President, it is really
unclear how such small data size would be of any interest to Tech industry,
unless US military industry in planning to check out how to expand military
industry using logical fallacies instead of facts and there by making US Department
of War relevant. Even US Department of State reports prior to 2025 do not
indicate a Christian angle to murder, rather indicate the violence is linked to
complex situational, political realities, along with community’s access to
resource.
US President, isn’t it necessary
to get facts in order before ensuring US 900-billion-dollar has relevant work
to justify its existence at the global level? In the absence of same it would
come crashing down even synthetic data would not help!
Reference
1. https://fij.ng/article/report-nigeria-records-51887032-household-crimes-in-2024
2. RIT.
College of Liberal Arts. Centre for Public Safety Initiatives.2024 Homicide
Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities. Working Paper 2025-02
2025-02_CPSI Working Paper_US City Homicide Stats.pdf
4.https://www.visionofhumanity.org/sahel-dominates-top-10-countries-most-impacted-by-terrorism/
5.https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Global-Terrorism-Index-2025.pdf
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/terrorism-is-spreading-despite-a-fall-in-attacks/
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Nigeria
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