Nigeria State And The Doom Day To Come

The alarming security upheavals, such as

kidnapping, armed robbery, bombing/attacks,

agitations and ethnic violence, currently

rampaging in Nigeria has posed a pertinent

questions to the country’s ethnographic

sphere.

More dastardly, in a horrific and disturbing

round of violence, which raged till the new

year day. And still raging in Benue state, no

fewer than 80 people had been killed by the

supposed herders but terrorist in essence

from fulani clans.

If reports by the chief press secretary to the

governor, Mr Samuel Ortom is anything to go

by, the attackers left a gory figure of

mutilated and decomposing bodies, littering

burnt, as well as vandalised communities in

Guma and Logo ugba Local government

areas of the state.

Honestly, its an hard nut to crack,

reconciling oneself with thoughts that one

will never see again in the flesh, your loved

ones whom you merried with and parted few

hours ago. But this is untainted reality

Nigerians wine and dine with constantly, as

their father, mother, uncle, brother and

closed acquaintances are been killed in

volume at night by fulani herders. Depicting

their disgusting acts on the precarious rights

to practice their profession anywhere in the

country.

They are everywhere in the middle belt, and

even south. Operating ridiculously and

leaving the people in misery, fears,

destruction and emotionally devastated.

To be candid, this herders will not hesitate

to make caricature on any attempt by the

government to ban open grazing. perhaps,

enforce a ranching system for cattle rears.

According to Miyetti Allah, farming system in

Nigeria is too primitive compared to the

current pastoral system, hence, it will be

insensitive of the government to disallow

open grazing. Perhaps, confine its cattles to

a place in the name of ranching or cattle

colony, buttressing that Nigeria’s climatic

conditions is ineffective for such practices.

Considering the security stance,

government’s levity in tackling insecurity is

the greatest factor posing threat on the

peace and unity of this country.

They are hypocritical in bringing perpetrators

and their culprits to justice. Despite Global

Terrorism Index GTI considering fulani

herders raid as the fourth most deadly terror

group in the world after Boko Haram, ISIS

and Al-shabaab. Its very much uncommon of

instances, where a Fulani herdsman is been

compelled into facing the full wrath of the

law over an atrocious act. And regardless of

their notor and humongous tendencies to

inflict pains and anxiety on the harmless

Nigerian any where any time, the anti peace

group is been handled lightly, giving

insinuations that they are special indigenes

who outlaws by dint of niche and

environment.

Aside the usual condemnations and

occasional reprimand from different quarters

of governance, government has politicked

the bid to give the vulnerables the right

asylum they truly deserve. And Guess who

the vulnerables of the incessant killings in

Benue state are, they are women, children

and over aged adults, who are either shot or

matched, perhaps beaten to death by the

assailants who constantly invade and

unleash mayhem overnight.

Come to think of it, its appalling that in a

country where possession of unlicensed gun

is a serious crime, some group of people still

plies the high brow areas with gun, yet,

unhindered.

More baffling, the justifications from

different quarters of governance is capable

of sterring anger for vegeance. The

inspector general of police who went about

asking for more time to fish out the culprits

had earlier described Benue killings as

communal clash. And if I may ask, what can

an intelligent officer of his status possibly

offer to remedy the hovering cloud when

obviously he has a different notion of the

matters in question?

Worst still, the president never took out of

his busy schedules to visit the helpless

people in the North Central, perhaps, to

sympatise with them on the horrendous

black Thursday while been evacuated to the

street wailing over the departed souls.

Rather, the poor masses, out of perplexity,

have chosen the alternative of leveraging on

a seemed never-forth coming media

enchantments like; perpetrators of Benue

killings will be punished. “Mr president is

conscious of his duty because he is

accountable for everything that goes wrong,

plus “He deeply sympatise with the bereaved

families and all other direct and indirect

victims of the violence. He is determined to

bring it to a permanent end.

For crying out loud, this is unalarcrity. As a

matter of dispensation, its quite unalloyed of

the government, working synergistically for a

common goal. Perhaps, an alamode of

propellant instigated for a propitiatory

outcomes in 2019.

More shockingly was the statement credited

to the minister of Agriculture and rural

development, chief Audu Ogbe who

attributed the brutal murder of his brothers

to government’s lax attitudes in providing

the needed infrastructures for pastoral

farming. According to him, government has

not done enough to subsidise pastoral

farming to the UK standard.

Well, if he (Audu) failed to understand that

Miyetti Allah and his cohorts are sabotaging

the national food sufficiency, baba should

have been briefed of the acme of naivety

this portrays, especially when his people

desperately need a saviour from the

mayhem they have learned to accept.

Quite disarray, the state governor, Mr Samuel

Ortom repugnantly threw in his fair share of

the shallow rooted notions. And according to

him, perpetrators of Benue killings are well

known. As a governor, Ortom is the chief

security officer of the state, but why has he

not been patriotic enough to point out the

killers and stripe them for wrath of justice

Instead of the needless tour he had chosen

of Aso rock. Or is the governor battling with

pneumonia ailment?

More recently, the minister of defense, also

joined the train. In his interview with punch

newspaper, Mansur Dan Ali noted that the

recent killing in Taraba and Benue state was

as a result of the stoppage of cattle routes

across the country, as well as,

implementation of anti open grazing law in

some states. The Department of state

services (DSS) also identified an Islamic

state in west Africa network ( ISWA),

operating within the north Central and south

-south geopolitical zone as the brain behind

the incessant attacks.

These, among others are the miscreant,

ungodly, unpatriotic, unguided and sarcastic

justifications from propagandist aimed to

pilot self ambition. without an iota of doubt,

the mal-nurtured information has propagated

retardation on the right policy which should

be unanimously formulated in order to

salvage the country from total ruin. It also

posed an aberrations on the attitude of

concession to further co existent among

ethnic groups in Nigeria.

Against the craving needs of the government

to make hay while the sun still shines, to do

a lilliputian of what it seems doing to tackle

Boko Haram in the North east as well as

agitations in the Niger Delta, legions of

draconian information jetting to the table of

Mr president, is capable of landing one into

a dilematic circumstances in comprehending

the right unit of competence to do the

needful.

In my widest imaginations, fulani herders’

are becoming unstoppable, as states like

Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Ogun, Kogi and plateau

state are becoming more vulnerable to the

their carnage activities. Yet, the government

is hypocritical, sycophantic and misguided.

Thus, politicking the entire process of

salvaging the country from the menace that

looms.

As usual, it made headlines in virtually all

the national dailies, but gradually and

shenaniganly, the news of man’s inhumanity

to man ransacking every nooks and crannies

of this nation is becoming a dieter. And die-

hardly, the terrorists are re- enforcing. About

a week ago, an arms laden helicopter fully

loaded with arms, suspectedly owned by the

Fulani Jihadist landed in Jibu. A village

located along river Benue, somewhere closed

to Ibi local government area of Taraba state,

with the aftermath whereabouts still

unknown.

Evidently, there is hardly a day that news

will not make round of fulani’s atrocious

activities in Nigeria. Yet the government is

sluggishly approaching the whole saga.

Perhaps turning a deaf ears to the plight of

the masses.

I wonder how many more blood Miyetti Allah

and its cohorts in high places needed to

shed to succumb to pains and agony, misery

and despairs the masses are subjected to.

And I need just one cogent reason why the

people may not consider self defense soon,

seeing corpses of their beloved ones litter

the street on daily basis. And with the

government which seems to be doing

nothing about it.

Corruption

Without mincing words, the present

government invested, if not all, most of its

energies in fighting corruption. But as a

matter of reality, corruption has fought back

and waxing stronger and kicking.

What we have had so far was a media

enchantments where arrest is been carried

out before investigations. Without apology I

want to say that non of those indicted of

corruption had been severely punished for

crime committed. As a matter of fact, the

public officials who have looted in the past

have now considered defection to the ruling

party as the umbrella shielding them from

the scorching sun of criminality.

More shockingly, our most anointed saint of

a president signed a bill suggesting special

immunity for both federal and state

lawmakers against litigations into law. To

me, this has compounded the notion

“corruption is waxing stronger and kicking”.

Because the bill is simply and impediment

on the principle of check and balance, as it

immunises corruption and its bystanders

against the force of nemesis.

Every lawmaker indicted of one crime or the

other is free of trial for the next four years.

To this extend It will do justice if anyone

can confidently outline one crucial reason,

as to why those corrupt officials will not

build a very high wall for self defence before

their tenure elapsed.

As a nation, vying to reduce corruption to a

drastic end, special immunity for top

government officials remain a back log on

our struggles. Evidently, in 1999, federal

government sued the late General Sani

Abacha’s family over his loots. Lo and

behold, where, the federal government has

just one lawyer representing them in court,

Abacha’s family hired the services of 12

international lawyer – Big wall for defence.

Unemployment

Unemployment is a no go area, as thousands

of youth flucks the street with worn out file

permanently stucked to their hand.

The cost of living is all time high. Nigerians

are wallowing endlessly in the virtuous cycle

of poverty.

Without much emphasis, the time to

restructure is now. Infact, restructuring is a

sin qua non. Else I forsee civil war imminent.

This is not a prophesy but a critical

perceptions from events and happenings.

Like the say, no nation survives civil war

twice.

Restructuring is the way.

– John Paul writes from Lagos.

p_john97@yahoo.com

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