By Dan Amor
There is a lamentable and disturbing magnitude of
violence in Nigeria.
So is crime. The country is constantly on the boil. The atmosphere in the
country has been nothing but a tawny volcano. The situation conveys at once the
chief features of the Nigerian spirit: it is vertical, spontaneous, immaterial,
upward. It is ardent. And even as tongues of fire do, it turns into fire
everything it touches. What we are experiencing today is induced by poverty,
hunger, frustration, apathy, desperation and sectional or tribal expansionist
ambition.
In the midst of the misery and lack that is the lot of our youth and
other Nigerians, a few Nigerians are still swimming in affluence and under the
best security system and protection one can think of. What has indeed compounded
the Nigerian misfortune is the sheer bravado, if not braggadocio with which
Fulani herdsmen are butchering other Nigerians on a large scale across the
country. This is even happening without the sitting government raising an
eyebrow against it. Many Nigerians even believe that the Federal Government of
President Buhari is culpable in the mass hysteria afflicting the country. It
hardly seems a time for timidity and restraint.
