A Reaper drone can loiter overhead and transmit infrared video for over 27 hours, or up to 42 hours with external fuel tanks, depending on its configuration.
This means every inch of Sambisa and other hotspots can be under constant video surveillance, day and night, if Nigeria secures such cooperation with the US or any partner possessing this capability. China also has similar drones.
Partners provide the intelligence, while Nigerian troops deploy by helicopter and eliminate the terrorists.
There are many ways the Nigerian government can collaborate with partners to defeat this threat once and for all. The unfortunate killing of the general in the field shows that the Nigerian military needs help with logistics, surveillance, and firepower.
We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
There are really no consequences as citizens will have to navigate around a pile of identities - ethnic, religion, partisanship or loyalty to local power structures and opposition will pursue selfish agenda.
G.K Chesterton quote does it for me. What did he say?