No human being who has any iota of humanity in him will see the spate of killings most especially the recent one that occurred in Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area just twenty kilometres away from the Maiduguri, where at least 43 people were slaughtered who would not shed tears.
Nigeria is seriously in a state of confusion and disarray that we now compare the relative failures of our governments as a yardstick to determine who had fared better in piloting the affairs of our country.
We have reached a stage in this country in which now the comparison is, who had more people killed under his watch, BUHARI or JONATHAN. The most annoying and terrifying of all is that the North has been the experimental ground for such insanity. The situation will never cease to amaze any well-meaning, patriotic, and concerned Nigerian as to how the lives of its citizens, most especially the northerners, are not protected.
It is no longer scary news, that in your neighborhood you could wake up to the news of either the kidnappers had taken somebody or bandits have maimed innocent Nigerians or you hear that the dreaded Boko Haram is on the rampage again. How did we get to this?
The essence of governance anywhere is the protection of lives and properties. Any government, at any level that fails to live up to this responsibility, has lost the essence of governance.
I can’t imagine how we got to this, it really baffles me, but what is most annoying and embarrassing is the hypocrisy of the North. Its elders, its scholars, its political, religious and traditional leaders have kept mute, as if nothing is happening, just because of the notion that it is our own at the helm of affairs.
But what do I know? We are a nation that laughs and smiles at our collective misfortune, but we are Nigerians and we have no any other county than Nigeria.
We are all Nigerians and we have a responsibility of our undiluted loyalty to the country not to an individual. We should all rise to the occasion and realise that security is everybody’s business, by working hard and reporting any suspicious movement in our surroundings.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Dauda Haruna Tula. ([email protected])
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