By Sunny Ikhioya
The delicate nature
of Nigeria was brought to the fore after the
election of Goodluck Jonathan to the Presidency in year 2011, when some of us
vowed not to allow a so called infidel to rule them and promised to make the
nation ungovernable for him. This mission was pursued with so much doggedness
until Jonathan lost the re-election in 2015. It is a clear fact that Jonathan
did not live up to his full potential as President but when the story of his
government will be told by unbiased historians, it will be on record that his
government was greatly sabotaged, with the active connivance of propagandists
who surpassed Goebbels standards.
It became so
clear to many people that Jonathan must leave for peace to reign. At the height
of the Boko Haram insurgency, not a few people were of the views that Jonathan
should just go, if that was the price for peace to be restored in the
land. There is also another school of thought that held the view that since
Buhari is their son, his coming as president will make the northern hardliners
sheath their sword but what have we witnessed since his coming? A new wave of
insurgency caused by the rampaging Fulani herds men. From the Middle Belt
region they have now infiltrated the south, killing, maiming and kidnapping
with so much effrontery. It is amazing that our security personnel are taking
this long to contain them.
Some are now
of the view that they are another arm of the Boko Haram masquerading as herds
men. Have you noticed the great influx of a particular blend of ‘northerners’
into the south region recently? Some say they are Malians, Chadians and other
West Africans but what are our intelligence agencies doing about it? It is
expected that with the experience of the Boko Haram these past years and the
activities of militants and criminals in other areas, our level of intelligence
gathering would have been up graded by several notch but, it appears we are
still in the doldrums. The way and manner the so called herds men have
carried out their genocidal missions suggest that they are truly professionals
in the guerrilla warfare action. You sneak in, ravage a whole
village/community and sneak out quietly with no trace of your where about. It
is too much to comprehend. The question now is: Why has the coming of President
Buhari failed to put a stop to the nefarious activities of these herds men?