By Tola Adeniyi
With this title several
readers will jump to the conclusion that the dreaded but now degraded Boko
Haram terrorist group should occupy the Number one slot while the Fulani
herdsmen terrorists and the new Ijaw Avengers would rank second and third
respectively. They are wrong!
While the menace of the
three mentioned terrorist groups constitutes grave threat and danger to
Nigeria’s corporate existence and her economic resurrection, the combined
menace of the three will pale into insignificance when placed side by side with
the menace of the criminal silence of Nigerians in the face of the serious
onslaught perennially and perpetually unleashed on the country by a handful of
vultures who have bled Nigeria to near death with their insane looting of the
country.
The Number 1 threat to
corporate Nigeria
is the unexplainable timidity of all Nigerians, the criminal silence of the
masses in the face of the huge theft of their patrimony by a handful. Sometimes
I wonder if Nigeria
is the same country that produced legendary Aminu Kano, Madam Sawaba, Mrs.
Olufunmilayo Kuti, Margaret Ekpo, Joseph Sarwan Tarka, Adaka Boro, Tai Solarin,
Arthur Nwankwo, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Beko Ransome-Kuti and fiery Gani Fawehinmi
among a few others.
Inability to speak out against evil, against injustice, against oppression,
depression and deprivation is the beginning of calamitous tragedy. Nigerians
have kept too quiet for too long that we now have a deadly monster that has
almost swallowed us up as a people. Can we pretend not to know when our school
drop-out neighbour who became chairman of local government suddenly started
putting up a mansion and assembling porch cars in his yard? Did we not see
Ghana-Must-Go bags being loaded and off loaded in the National Assembly? Did we
not see our governors, presidents and other public officials suddenly becoming
billionaires? We kept quiet.