How Many More Lives Shall Be Taken To The Slaughter Slabs As Northern Nigerians Suffer In Silence?

How Many More Lives Shall Be Taken To The Slaughter Slabs As Northern Nigerians Suffer In Silence?

AREWA AGENDA – According to Ola Rotimi in his magnum opus play “The Gods Are Not To Blame” when the frog at the front falls into a pit, others behind take caution. This metaphorically typifies our daring security situation in the north today where lives are on the daily basis taken to the slaughter slabs with reckless abandon. Then who is the next if I may give to query rhetorically?

Whose blood is the next to spurt from the barrel of the beastly men of the underworld that have been wrecking havoc on our people?

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like that of the recent Katsina massacre, we witness incredible acts of tenderness and empathy.

We saw it right from the Chibok female students that were carted away years ago by insurgents, as well as from their community and countryside. The outpour of sympathy the helping hands other people extended to victims’ families have been touching and heart-wrecking.

Yet a good number of them are still suffering in the silence of these areas decimated by the insurgents’ umpteenth onslaughts.

Everywhere around the globe, every civil war and massacre always leaves a bitter sour taste in the mouth of the victims, with certain unique debilitating effects.

Yet, the ideas of what are the offences of these local and innocent citizens who get drenched in the rain every day, and suffer the rays of the sun on daily basis in search of what to eat remain evasively unknown.

We know about every massacre that has taken place in the distant past, but the ones in the current situations are like trees falling in the forest with no one hearing their howls. This recent government has been a monumental failure in so many angles you name it; Security, Education, Health care system. This administration has cheated Nigerians beyond recognition. The good people of Nigeria should be ready and fit enough to secure themselves, take cautions and above all #getYourPVCNow. Because, if these alarming tragedies continue all day and night, these mayhems may consume us all in no distant time.

Yesterday was your friend of a friend in another state, today is your best friend in your state and we don’t know what tomorrow brings.

Northern Nigeria’s mass killing by kidnappers, terrorists and bandits did not come by stealth. Our politicians, together with those who are meant to serve with them, have been sleeping on duty. It is not a problem until it rears its ugly head in the most Peaceful parts of Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara and then we will continue to pay for that.

The Good Books says “a developmental state puts government at the centre of providing and protecting its vulnerable citizens from social, political, and economic ills that the free hand of the markets cannot correct. A developmental state explicitly recognises the need for the state to act as a safety net in cases of socio-economic, provision of health care delivery, Education and security vulnerabilities and contingencies”.

On contrary, our government have woefully failed in that instead of its attitude to massively focus on tackling the rising problems. Strategically, the government should be at the forefront to devise missiles to reduce the weight of these barbaric practices by these evil mutants. If I would be giving the Chief captain of the ship, I would give some golden directives that all the affected states opposed by the insurgents should be monitored by the professionals who have risen through the ranks in the Agencies (Military and Police). The proposed agency serves no purpose beyond additional opportunities to deploy political allies and access to lucrative tenders. Instead, the government should repurpose Home Affairs as a vital member of the economics cluster to facilitate skilled inward migration while regulating unskilled inward migration that threatens social cohesion among poor Nigerians.

In the police, the senior leadership should be rejuvenated and systems established so that only the best officials rise to the top. An independent panel should undertake a transparent, merit-based recruitment process to appoint the national and provincial commissioners against clear and measurable criteria.

Detective services and crime intelligence should be prioritised to enable early warning, detection and prosecution of complex crimes in all the affected territories such as those committed by the planners of the recent insurgency and burgeoning organised crime. The ability to respond to public protests with sufficient police trained and equipped for the task is also key.

Operational policing should be better decentralised in practice to provincial and metropolitan levels. At the same time, tight central control must be maintained over procurement, conditions of service, training, standards, and specialised services such as forensics.

The VIP protection unit (and its budget) should be downsized and its members redeployed. The civilian police secretariat in the affected habitats should also be increased in size and restructured so that it can independently assess the Agency’s financial management, procurement processes and operational performance against clear objectives. These weapons should be served as a means to partly help us in curbing the major percentage of the debilitating saga of insecurity. It is said that “Citizens don’t obey the rules because the ruling Giants sets “the said poor example”. This is highly considered in the recent situation of today’s Nigeria, but, government and the law-abiding citizens would humbly attest and enjoy this sincere truth of advice if judiciously put in place as the mass killings became the order of the day.

Unfortunately, guns blaze every odd night and bodies fall into the swelling river of blood, reminiscent of the apartheid state-sponsored.

As we count down to our democratic 2023 general elections we need the cooperation of everyone on board especially the media to take the lead.
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On the other end, the majority of Nigerians bemoan a scourge that has never been seen or heard of in our recent past. Is it that we easily swayed, as-minded people?

I’ve never seen the likes of tragedy accomplished on the good innocent people, like that of Zamfara’, the evils accomplished at Birnin gwari LG, That crying mom, her children, Fathers and hustlers in the Kaduna-Abuja train, I’ve never seen that of Katsina at my tender ages’, never seen any of the recent ‘Saturday, the 24ths. This date has broken my heart. For how long will you keep scaling down the numbers of the good innocent Northerners?.

Our numbers are important, please we need mercy.
I pray that God the Almighty bring us light and mercy, may he bring all these ongoing mayhem to an end. May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

#PrayForNigeria

#SecureNorth

#GetYourPVCNow.

Comr. Ibrahim Nazeer Kallah,
(A Concerned Citizen).