The Self-inflicted Injury
The niggling security disturbances in the country has become deep-seated, pushing Nigeria to the brink of implosion. The end from the beginning is disaster, should we continue this way.
There is no safe haven any where in the country. When the security forces are not secure and begging for protection, the entire system is shambolic in its form. From the North to the South and from the East to the West, there are scores of killings, kidnapping, arson and and divers forms of armed banditry.
What type of country do we find ourselves in? A country where our leaders inflict collosal damage on the fabrics of our existence and implant time bombs in our political space through misgovernance with reckless abandon. The handlers of Nigerian project have shown crass insensitivity and short-sightedness on general issues of public well-being.
How could you run an educational system that is deprecated, dysfunctional and deficient by all standards and expect a society of sane people? How could you superintend over an almost void economic system, where graduates of higher institutions are joblessly left to regret why they had to waste many productive years studying, only to graduate to selling scratch cards and riding commercial motor bikes?
It may interest you to know that the most sophisticated and calamitous crimes the world over, are committed by educated people. With this knowledge, it is foolhardy of our leaders to subject or leave educated people to the harsh streets of uncertainty. This attitude which is prevalent in Nigeria is an ignominious invitation to armed criminality, which most frustrated educated Nigerian youth would welcome as the way out.
Until these educated minds who deserve gainful employments are withdrawn from the streets and given a foothold, Nigerians especially the elite class will continue, as it has begun, to leave in fear, waking up to one baleful holocaust to another, each passing day. Do not expect the onslaughts from angry Nigerians to abate. EndSARS protest was highjacked and thwarted by government agents and since then, impunity in government circles has continued on the increase.
Today, it is the unknown gun men. This menace has become more severe than the October Protest. The guerilla posture of these attacks makes it intractable unless the grievances and agitations of the youth are addressed from the root. This type of problem is never solved by or with military resistance. The more you try to repress them, the more you open more frontiers of attack.
I can never preach violence as a panacea for a failed state. I cannot also support con men in government. My persuasion hinges on the emergence of suitable leaders at both state and federal levels who have the capacity to remedy the ugly situation of things in Nigeria. Nigeria needs a social inclusive crusader who understands the peculiarities of Nigerian composition, and not a bigot or singers of ethnic jingoism. I very much favour good governance as the only path to peace and security in Nigeria. Good governance will carve a niche for the teeming unemployed youth; good governance will kill agitations for Biafra and the like, good governance will bring to halt the serial killings, banditry, arson, bombing, and the most recent menace of the unknown gun men.
We must also, as a people, consider the peculiarities of our people at different state levels. In Abia State, for example, the people are in dire need of exemplary industrial leader after Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu's administration. Such a leader will deploy his magical hand of industry to navigate the state to economic and political stability, devoid of agitations.
Only such a leader is capable of raising the ante of developmental industrialism which is the hallmark of every advanced society.
Therefore, we have a mandate to resist career politics at all levels and all the uselessness attributable to it. Every conceivable social and political ill in our country today was bandied on us by selfish career politicians. We must, as a matter of urgency, tackle our problems from the root.
Jaja Martins
23/05/2021
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