By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed
The rate of poverty in the Northern region of Nigeria is
quite unfortunate despite the abundant resources and human power in the
region.
The political and leadership failure represent the fundamental menace that continue to trouble Northerners whose only joy is that one of their own is in charge.
The
instability of the Nigerian government has seriously damaged the educational
system in the country. The numbers of students who have dropped out of school
is alarming in the region, and this has paved way for the recruitment of
insurgency because majority are unemployed.
The children of the ‘common people’ they refused to educate are now asking for a pound of flesh in return. Although some of these self-acclaimed elder statesmen in the North have always known that the calamities will consume them one day, they refused to turn a new leaf.
And now,
Northern elites, both traditional and political leaders are now reaping
years of their negligence and selfish exclusion of the poor people.
If our
national treasury had been used in line with our national needs, our
educational and healthcare systems would have been in good shape, and no
government official would have been required to fly out of the country for the
slightest headache.
Nigeria’s
economic woes has deeply affected the lives of millions of people in the
country. No wonder terrorists are honoured and regarded as peace-keeping
ambassadors.
Our political
leaders prefer praise-singers and sycophants as they love to hear “rankadede.” They
have no sympathy and respect for their employers, even when they are duty-bound
to be accountable to them.
Now is right
time for the oppressed people in the North to hold their leaders responsible
for any future attack. Meanwhile, the so-called leaders know the people behind
the killings and kidnappings in the region.
Same leaders
imported these monsters into the country for their own selfish agendas with the
promise of giving them anything they require as a reward for their evil deeds.
Why are
Northerners afraid of protests?
Why are they
happy about Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho persecution?
Presently the
whole region has turned to a den of kidnappers, yet Northerners see all
legitimate protests as a war against them.
They
criminalised #EndSARS protests, laughably claimed it was an agenda against the
North and a ploy to overthrow dictator Buhari’s regime.
But
didn’t dictator Buhari himself claim that #EndSARS protesters “wanted to march
here and remove me”?
Meanwhile,
the young people who trooped out in their numbers to protest were victims of
police brutality. They had experienced humiliation and harassment from Nigerian
police with no form of justice.
We are in a
country where innocent people reap what the demons in human forms have sown in
the name of religion and politics.
Northerner’s
are busy celebrating failures as achievement, applauding politicians because of
a little drop of honey. Yet they are unconcerned about the killings and
kidnappings in the North by their kinsmen: “Fulani Herdsman”.
The openly
display bias by the Nigerian Government won’t solve our problems. If the same
energies our security agencies put to unleash attacks on protesters were
channelled towards fighting Fulani herdsmen, terrorists and bandits, we
certainly wouldn’t have been where we are today.
Compensating
terrorists in the North because they are from one big family “Namu Namu”
will definitely desolate the whole region. It is time for the oppressed to wake
up from their slumbering and mobilise themselves in thousands, and expose the
people behind the killings and kidnappings.
No
compensation should be allowed forthwith. They should desist from further
rehabilitating and reintegrating terrorists back to the society.
Terrorists
should not be given a soft landing, government should eliminate them all in
line with their oat of office.
But
will this ever happen under a Buhari regime? Does he have respect for the oath
he took before he was sworn in? Evidence say NO!
*Ahmed is a commentator on public issues
The northerners are suffering from many things they know because. they brought it upon themselves and for me I don't pity them, they are power mongers and they don't have the slightest wisdom on how to use power and benefit from it they have been in power in this country for over 60yrs yet they don't benefit from it ,what a blindness.!
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