Nigeria has become a perdition in which everybody is losing and
nobody is gaining. Everywhere you ever go, your nostrils are daily confronted
with the stench of death. The possibility of scores of our compatriots being
killed on a daily basis is almost predictable. From the rampaging Fulani
herdsmen killing, maiming and kidnapping hundreds of innocent and defenseless
Nigerians on a daily basis to cascading incidents of inter-communal or tribal
wars across the country, the growing menace of violent armed robbery and police
brutality, and ritual killings, Nigerians are having more than they bargained
for.
All this
is happening under the watch of a sitting government whose officials are openly
asking native peoples to surrender their lands for cattle ranching to avoid
being killed. Several analysts, newspaper editorials and informed commentators
have had to proffer solutions to the numerous crises bedeviling the country
including the imperative for State Police and the urgent need to tame the
so-called ‘indigenes/settlers’ dichotomy, but the government at the centre
behaves as though it has the solutions to all the problems of the country
whereas its efforts are not adding up.
