By Nick Dazang
By dint of the legion of dastardly and wicked attacks by terrorists of all hues over the past seven years across the country, leaving in their trail deaths and mayhem, the chickens have been coming home to roost. Only, and unfortunately, no one hearkened to them. Not even President Muhammadu Buhari whose solemn remit it is to protect and defend the country.
If anything, his aloofness, his complacency and smug
indifference suggest, not to a few Nigerians, that he may have been at one with
the terrorists. The government, under President Buhari’s watch, treated the
terrorists, at best, as untouchables and at the worst with kid gloves. This is
even as it dealt in draconian fashion with others in their ilk.
The government -until now? – has been slow and tardy in decimating the Boko Haram terrorists such that the terrorists became emboldened. And such that ordinary folks were tempted to conclude that government had betrayed them and that it was in cahoots with the terrorists.
