I have just finished reading Suyi Ayodele’s column in the Nigerian Tribune and it got me seriously worried.
Columnist SUYIOBA and several others have been writing and writing and have kept warning the unitary government of Nigeria that this unfortunate country is on the precipice.
The greatest challenge confronting this country is insecurity. Every other challenge pales into insignificance in comparison.
Inflation, food shortages, collapsed infrastructure, mass unemployment, massive stealing and shameless plundering of the commonwealth could be easily tackled if people are safe in their homes, in their shops and offices, on their farms and on the roads.
Many Nigerians who are fleeing the country are running away in order to save their lives. The same concern is responsible for many Diaspora Nigerians’ unwillingness to come over to invest.
I wish those in fleeting power remember how terrorists almost overpowered Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy not too long ago. And he was a sitting President!
One is left to wonder why government appears unable or unwilling to confront the issue of insecurity headlong. We claim to know their sponsors, their financiers, their addresses and even their bank account numbers.
We have had scandalous stories and allegations about how people gunning for political power imported terrorists from all over Africa to Nigeria to help them chase away Goodluck Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party government. Fingers were pointed in the direction of some people and the All Progressives Congress, allegations which remain undenied.
We heard of payments for services not adequately made and agreements not fulfilled.
In all of these, it’s the poor, innocent and hapless citizens that are been consumed by the consequences of other people’s inordinate ‘do-or-die’ ambitions.
As for me, we have gone past blame-game politics.
I strongly appeal to all those who have the power to do something to take immediate action to remedy the situation.
Right now the children of the leper are being killed and our response is thanking their killers for cleansing the town.
The reality on ground, and that’s why I am sounding the alarm bell which I did a few years back and was ignored, is that it is very possible for any state house to be overrun by terrorists on motorcycles.
State governors cannot pretend ignorance of the strength or weakness of the security architecture attached to them.
Nigeria should not submit itself to the rule of warlords.
A stitch in time saves nine.
High Chief Adeniyi is an award-winning syndicated columnist, thinker and yystic. He writes from the town of Isamuro- Ijebu, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State
