By Dan Amor
Irrational impulses are not surprising in the stress and tension
that characterize a demented society. In an atmosphere of violence, reason is
sometimes abandoned and humanitarian principles forgotten. The inflamed
passions of the time lead men to commit atrocities. But the concern here is not
with the psychological pathology of those who commit atrocities but rather with
what has turned our nation into a slaughterhouse where human beings are daily
killed with intimidating alacrity.
*President Buhari and Gov El-Rufai |
Throughout modern history, atrocity propaganda has often mesmerized readers thousands of kilometres from the scene of the crime. Often, the improbability of the actions described suggests that the stories were little more than fantasies concocted for diverse reasons from even more diverse sources.
But the reading public inNigeria has invariably evinced a
morbid absorption with the most nightmarish aspects of this national
aberration. It is indeed fashionable to observe that material which should
create a moral aversion to the cruelty of our present times often produces a
perverse fascination instead. There is, candidly speaking, an alarming rate of
mockery killings in Nigeria ,
especially under the Buhari administration. There are gruesome stories of
rapes, mutilations, perversities and child and mother murders. An extremely
partisan and sympathetic public is willing to read and believe almost anything,
if it were tinged with sadism. It is hard to explain why the change promised
Nigerians by Buhari and his yea Sayers has come with enormous burden including
death. Much of the savagery connected with our current bloodletting could be
explained in the violence inherent in the characters of the buccaneers who have
misruled us for all these miserable years.
But the reading public in
If truly democracy is preferred to military rule all over the world,
why are Nigerians going through this hell of experience in a democratic
dispensation? Why is the government turning a blind eye to the holocaust and
pornography of violence going on in Southern Kaduna ?
If Governor Nasir el Rufai of Kaduna state's revelation that: "the Fulani
herdsmen who are killing Nigerians are from other West African States", is
true, why are his government and the Federal Government allowing militants from
other countries free access to slaughter other ethnic nationalities and the
Christian communities in Southern Kaduna? Why are Nigerians objects of
intimidation, genocidal massacre, annihilation, rape and abysmal extermination
in their country? Why is the Federal Government exonerating itself from
responsibility and complicity in the bestiality in Southern Kaduna while
claiming that the state government is capable of managing the situation in Southern Kaduna ? If the marauders are invaders from other
countries, why did el Rufai pay them ostensibly to halt the killings?