Insecurity: Government Cannot Solve The Problem Because They’re The Problem

Foolish Nigerian Leaders, I hate it whenever such distasteful & Barbaric acts of terrorism occur and the best they can do is politicize it just to score cheap & selfish gains. The primary responsibility of any competent and responsible government is provision of security first and foremost to her citizens and where the government fails to do such it should be held responsible and accountable. It is indeed laughable to see a baseless and shallow statement like this coming from the PDP raising an alarm that the attacks were politically motivated and can be traced to the utterances and comments of those it termed “desperate persons who seek to undermine and discredit the present administration and make the nation ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan by instituting a reign of terror against the people.” In my opinion, I feel the government of the day is desperate to gain sympathy from Nigerians by absolving herself from the blame of their woeful failure in tackling the security challenges currently experienced across the land. In so doing they are hopeful the anger of Nigerians will be transferred to the opposition whom they have always termed as enemies of the state’’. A government that cannot guarantee the safety of all Nigerians and is not willing to allow or give the people the right to defend themselves in the face of such threats is to me callous and insensitive to the plights of the vulnerable Nigerians whom many have been maimed and still continue to live under fear of the unknown. For any of such statements accredited to the PDP leadership apportioning the blame to the activities of desperate persons seeking to undermine the efforts of the present administration in fighting the menace to hold weight, we all need to revisit the genesis of such violence/terror acts and their root causes, we all need to know when they began in our history and how it remained unchecked so much it has culminated into this very present ugly state of its re-occurring decimal. According to Jane Addams ‘‘True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice’ And if we can be honest with ourselves to ask, how many of such cases of unwarranted acts of terror unleashed on Nigerians in the past have been botched by our security operatives or resolved with the culprits, master minders and sponsors brought to book? If our answers all turn out to be a resounding None or just a few then you will agree with me that we are not yet ready to face and conquer the current realities bedevilling us. I wouldn’t want to digress but take you on a trip down the lane of history for it is of utmost importance we begin to ask such questions like who was the brain behind the first bomb attack to be used in a terroristic manner in Lagos on the 19thOctober 1986, to eliminate a civilian in cold blood? If we all are humane to accept the fact ‘‘one life taken in cold blood is as gruesome as the countless number that may go down in a pogrom. Then let’s forget about the number and talk about life. For if the government then failed to nip in the bud by resolving the crime, apprehending, exposing and punishing those responsible for that one singular act which snuffed out the life of one of the finest investigative journalist Nigeria ever produced, what makes you think it can do better now resolving the cases of multiple attacks with high rate of deaths and casualties frequently occurring? I will repeatedly state this fact, whether we like it or not there’s no way we can overcome the present reality if the government continues to pay lips service to the issues without taking concrete steps to employing advanced means of crime investigation and prevention and also acquiring the needed courage to confront, arrest and punish those who have soiled their hands in such despicable acts both in the present and in the past without fear or favour. Justice must be done for peace to reign. For without justice which will guarantee the apprehension and punishment of all those with established links to such activities of terror, many more of such calamities will continue to befall us as a nation with the evil perpetrators getting away scot free.