By Paul Onomuakpokpo
It is the height of
delusional optimism if northern elders expected to crawl out of their cocoon of
safety and complicity in the troubles of their region unscathed. They are as
guilty as their past and present leaders whom they have blamed for the
depravations of their region. They cannot convincingly give up their
decades-old role of chorus leaders for bad governance for that of beacons of
development signposted by the plenitude of security.
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The tragedy of their region that they have
whined about is compounded by the fact of their obliviousness that they are too
late in realising that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the capacity to
guarantee security. Without almost the entire swathe of the north including
Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Benue, Niger, Plateau and Taraba states being
rendered a wasteland by bandits, these northern elders would not have
experienced this epiphany. These blood-hungry bandits have been abducting,
killing both citizens and foreigners and destroying their means of livelihood.
The northern elders bemoan how ruination has become the lot of agriculture as
banditry has kept farmers in the north from their farms.
