Recent results from our valiant security personnel, who sacrifice their comfort, including that of their immediate families, so that we can sleep soundly, are a welcome development in the country’s fight against the criminal element. The interdiction raid on bandits’ camps in Kusarsu, a village along the Abuja-Kaduna route, is a positive step that should be maintained and used to turn the tide in the fight against “bandits.”
There’s some good news here, especially along this axis. Success was reported in a few villages. However, I am concerned about the conduct of people who assist “bandits” in their neighborhood. In fact, villagers are seen debating them in newly released recordings. This suggests that they are well-known.
In these uncertain times, intelligence sharing and technological warfare are the only ways for us to win this fight as a country.
We should completely disregard peace as long as locals continue to encourage criminals, hooligans and killers who have no idea why they should be alive. These beasts have left a large number of children orphaned, widowed wives, numerous houses desolate and innocent people dead.
Targeting innocent people on the Abuja-Kaduna route, or in any other area of the country, under any pretense, is a direct attack on the state that should not be condoned. The government, as well as all relevant parties, must collaborate to create long-term solutions to the criminality on our country’s shores.
Informant actions are much worse than criminal activities since they provide killers an unfair edge over the collective well-being of the general public. Perhaps we should rethink our intelligence-sharing practices. We must utilise creative strategies in dealing with humanity’s foes. Informants and any traditional authority who support criminals, on the other hand, should face the full weight of the law as a matter of national priority.
Nigerians are hoping that December will be a watershed moment in their country’s insecurity. May peace reign in our father’s land.
Tajuddeen Ahmad Tijjani wrote from Galadima Mahmoud Street, Kasuwar-Kaji Azare, Bauchi State.
