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The politics of insecurity and possible solutions.

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Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities. ~Aung San Suu Kyi I had purposely refrained from writing on the RUGA madness that recently engulfed the polity for two reasons. Firstly, nobody has ever apprehended the cattle left behind by the killer Fulani herdsmen because it’s hard to believe that they disappear into the thin air with the herd. Two, I suspected the whole idea to be a ruse, a smokescreen to distract Nigerians from the impending petroleum subsidy removal by the government — and yes political distraction is a strategy in governance — Allow me to quickly digress with a brief background before we proceed. As a student at the University of Maiduguri, I observed that the Igbo building material traders in collaboration with their host community had a security outfit. My own hometown has a Hausa community with a polling unit. They have a security outfit which cooperates with our local vigilante and the police. I have employed more than ten guards from them over the years. And after the infamous 2016 Nimbo attacks, a friend from Nimbo whom I called to get a better picture of what actually transpired revealed that the Fulani community in there owned a large settlement and had been engaged in economic activities in the area dating back to the colonial era. The above examples of teamwork were ostensibly for crime prevention and peaceful coexistence. Fast forward to 2019 and the Fulani tribe has been so stereotyped that almost everything wrong with Nigeria now is associated with the Hausa-Fulani hegemony. It got so bad that the 2017 massacre inside a Catholic church in Anambra state was initially reported on social media as an attack by Fulani terrorists. So one can rightly say that Nigeria has completely lost any semblance of innocence that existed. With our common fault lines amplified, mistrust, suspicion and resentment have become malignant. and the government is aware of this. It is, therefore, conceivable that it deliberately introduced RUGA into the national space to elicit wearying outrage before a planned subsidy removal. Now let’s discuss the present issue. With the election behind us, the insecurity is mounting as predicted. Across the nation, we have escalating cases of banditry, kidnapping, violent Shiite protests and of course the most popular ‘Fulani herdsmen’ attacks, which have resulted in an incalculable loss of lives. And this assessment is only going by the reports that make it to the news. Nigerians are slaughtered on an hourly basis by criminals including those in uniform who are supposed to protect them. Vice President Osinbajo recently came under severe criticism for suggesting that the reports of kidnapping across the land were often exaggerated especially on social media. Of course, he spoke the truth. The proliferation of cheap communication tools has aided this magnification. Ignorant Nigerians who cannot perform a simple google search are hired to broadcast fallacies concocted by politicians and their agents. Afterall there was no WhatsApp when kidnappers were paid tithes in Aba and luxury buses travelled with police escorts. But was that the right thing for the nation’s number two man to say at a period we are daily bombarded with live videos of kidnapping and other forms of violence? The answer is an emphatic NO! Perception is crucial in governance. You may not be doing the right things, but saying the right things will often get you by. Our soldiers are constantly on the receiving end of deadly attacks. In early February the town of Rann in the Borno state lost 60 lives to Boko Haram terrorists and in the same month, a band of yet to be identified gunmen invaded a community in Kaduna state killing 130 people. Nobody is safe anymore except perhaps the politicians themselves surrounded by a retinue of security operatives. But their relatives are not spared, they feel the torment like other Nigerians. In the past week, gunmen murdered Fasoranti’s daughter as she travelled to Lagos from Akure, gunned down an uncle of the infamous Senator Abbo and abducted his stepmother. Not even President Buhari’s family has been spared as his inlaw was only rescued last week after two months in captivity. These are perilous times and must not be allowed to fester. So Osinbajo and indeed the government as a whole are expected to proffer solutions, solutions and solutions only. Will the recent killing of Mrs Funke Olakunrin prove to be the tipping point? Time will tell as events unfold. However, the poignant issue in this orgy of violence and also a stimulus for the strong opposition against this government is that the perpetrators literally get away with it — even when it may not be so — except when a prominent person is involved. Again, this has to do with my earlier point on perception. Already, the tempo of the rhetoric is increasing. Obasanjo who personally directed and defended the decimation of Odi and Zakibiam has already inked another letter calling for an end to the killing by ‘herdsmen’. Odumakin the disgruntled Buhari gofer is screaming Islamisation while Femi Fani Kayode who could be Yoruba, Biafran or Fulani depending on who is oiling his flute at the time is shouting ‘Fulanisation’ and calling on the Aare Ona Kakanfo to start beating the war drums. It is only the amnesiac that will take this trio seriously in their macabre but banal dance. But since Nigerians are often impressionable it would be proper for the authorities to check these outbursts before we are plunged into a spiral of reprisal attacks, because as Nyerere once noted: “the people who are politically and intellectually bankrupt normally seek refuge in ethnicity and religion as a major factor of mobilisation”. The government must be wary not to treat this potent factor with levity. The pertinent questions our security agents should tackle after apprehending the culprits are; How Yinka Odumakin who

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Swift And Sempiternal.

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She was only twenty-four But could have been forty-four Deep in the savannah of Rann She toiled for the vulnerable In the sights of Boko Haram That was abominable Faced with horror She braved the terror Now she’s gone in a whiff Her pain and despair Our groan and nightmare Hauwa’s hour was swift Tears and tributes will not bring her back Agony and sorrow will come and pass But our angel was not taken away. Her sempiternal memory lives each day.

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Amnesty Or The Gallows For Boko Haram?

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  “Reconciliation does not mean forgetting or trying to bury the pain of conflict, but that reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.” ~ Nelson Mandela It would appear that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s controversial call on President Buhari to resign hit the bullseye. I had opined in my last article that the Abia Senator indirectly told the North to wake up as the rest of the country seems to have finally lost its patience with the region’s seeming anathema for progress even after dominating the country’s leadership for many decades. Subsequently, notable northern leaders are speaking out. The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido reiterated his position on sanitising the Almajiri system, stating that Islam prohibits begging and that those who claim otherwise are misleading the people. Governor Zulum of Borno state publicly blamed the military for the Auno attack and in a subsequent sympathy visit the President pointedly told traditional rulers that Boko Haram attacks could only be possible if the people allow it. We were also treated to a memo from the NSA effectively heaping allegations of subversion and insubordination against the president’s Chief of Staff. But perhaps the most controversial issue currently on our table is the proposed bill to rehabilitate Boko Haram terrorists. The bill titled: “National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of repentant insurgents in Nigeria”, is sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe East and has passed the first reading in the upper chamber. While we cannot comprehensively dissect the components of the bill as its details still remain sketchy, we can at least peruse the political memory lane to interrogate its potential merits and demerits to determine if it should be rejected totally or redesigned according to the peculiarity of the situation. Let us recollect that this is not entirely new. The suggestion of an amnesty for Boko Haram was first made by Alhaji Saad Abubakar. The Sultan of Sokoto at the 2013 annual meeting of the Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) had called on President Jonathan to “declare amnesty to all combatants without thinking twice”. The government then set up a committee which explored the feasibility of an amnesty deal. Unfortunately, the Jihadist group outrightly rejected any chance of making peace with the government. Nevertheless, some programs on deradicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration have been undertaken in bits and pieces by NGOs in collaboration with the government. Three prominent programmes include a deradicalisation centre located in Kuje prison, Abuja which was created by the Jonathan administration in 2014. Operation Safe Corridor launched by the current government in 2016 and the Yellow Ribbon Initiative set up in 2017 by Neem Foundation, an NGO embedded in some affected communities in Borno state. The concept of amnesty is equally not a new phenomenon in Nigeria. The Yar’Adua government had offered the same to MEND militants who unleashed terror in the creeks to demand resource control as a panacea to the rising poverty and environmental degradation in the Niger Delta. Before you crucify me for including Niger Delta militants in the same essay with Boko Haram kindly permit me to reboot your anamnesis with a few lines. Sometime in March 2009, militants from Tompolo’s dreaded Camp Five in Gbaramatu Kingdom ambushed a JTF patrol in the creeks and reportedly KILLED 13 soldiers. A number of foreigners were also kidnapped and several vessels destroyed in that operation. When President Yar’Adua began consultations for his proposed amnesty to end the Niger Delta crisis he held several informal meetings with militant leaders in the Villa and some of their demands included the release of CAPTURED militants being detained in connection with the killing of JTF troops. The President acquiesced, and consequently “the military was directed to free several militants and their supporters who were in their custody”- Adeniyi Power, Politics And Death p. 83. Yar’Adua would later announce his amnesty deal and in July 2009 a budget of between N52–68 billion was set aside for the REHABILITATION of over 20,000 REPENTANT militants. They became pampered ‘govt pikins’ undergoing training, rehabilitation and reintegration over a period of 42 months in government-designated residential training centres at home and abroad. They were flown to and fro Abuja, chauffered around in official government vehicles, fed and accommodated in luxury hotels at taxpayers’ expense. Some ex-militants received monthly allowances of N65,000 over that period. An amount that tripled the average salary of a rookie civil servant and also higher than that of a recruit in the military. I have elucidated the foregoing points with some emphasis to elicit a vivid evocation for those may be quick to slate any analogy between the two scenarios by offering the naive argument that the Boko Haram insurgency is entirely different from the Niger Delta militancy. Of course, the ideology, motive and modus operandi of both groups differ greatly. However, terrorism has varying forms including economic terrorism and if we agree on the textbook definition of the word then we can also agree that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. So ditching the semantics leaves us with two similarities. One, both groups have taken up arms against the Nigerian state in pursuit of their objectives. And two, both have killed Nigerians. However, the opposition against the current proposal has been much louder than the support for it. That is assuming it has any beyond Senator Gaidam. This is quite understandable because no group has caused more damage to this country than Boko Haram since the 1914 amalgamation. Senator Ali Ndume, a prominent lawmaker from the northeast who was once arrested for links to Boko Haram is leading the naysayers. He is of the opinion that the bill will only encourage the insurgents as “it is when you win the war and some people surrender that you think about something like that,”. While Senator Istifanus Gyang from Plateau North urged his colleagues to reject the bill on the basis that it will be rewarding the criminals instead of rehabilitating the victim communities displaced by their criminality. But

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The children of a lesser god.

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“We are under attack in Rann. They are shooting everywhere please pray for me; please go and tell my parents that I am in trouble. Please, look for Fatima and tell her they are taking us away. They have entered here now…” Those were the last words of Hauwa Liman before she was abducted by Boko Haram terrorists alongside other health workers on the 1st of March 2018. She had recorded the words in Hausa language and the audio clip which went viral left the masses of the Nigerian cyberspace in shock, disbelief and utter consternation. Her trembling voice pierced through our innermost parts in a visceral manner that evoked vivid imaginations of the dangers faced by many of our compatriots in the conflict infested North East region. Last week she was reportedly executed by the terrorists at the expiration of the October 15th deadline given to the Nigerian government. She is the second aid worker to be killed by the terror group in two months after her colleague Saifura Hussaini was killed on the 16th of September. The media reported it alright, there was the usual outrage on social media and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign led by Oby Ezekwesili even marched in protest to the presidential villa where they reminded the president that they were once a campaign slogan and a pledge. Ironically, the news broke a few days after President Buhari was reported to have called Leah Sharibu’s parents to reassure them of his administration’s efforts towards the safe return of their daughter. But following Hauwa’s reported execution the Minister of information Lai Mohammed only had these ‘comforting’ words: “We did everything any responsible government should do to save the aid worker. As we have been doing since these young women were abducted, we kept the line of negotiations open all through. In all the negotiations, we acted in the best interest of the women and the country as a whole”, The usual lines often regurgitated by official spokespersons to absolve the government of blame. They are just as pale as they are irritating. So much for assurance, so much for succor and hope to numerous grieving parents whose loved ones are held in captivity by these mindless killers. Sadly, that was just about it. We seem to have moved on to the next and little may be heard of Hauwa going forward. While the media is obsessed with serving us the daily sound bites from callous politicians, we are too engrossed to bother about the depraved activities of a murderous sect. Oh yes, we are approaching the elections, the campaign season is taking off, we are now in that period when every sensibility and even humanity is lost to politicking. They will regale us with tales of how the insurgents have been technically defeated. How they are now reduced to attacking soft targets but we have witnessed the deaths of Mohammed Yusuf, Momodu Baba and perhaps even Abubakar Shekau yet Boko Haram remains a threat, the scourge continues to ravage many communities in the North East albeit intermittently. As I write about 100 Chibok girls are unaccounted for, while thousands of other children including Leah Sharibu who was abducted in Dapchi are still missing. The enormity of the problem becomes even more profound considering that Hauwa wasn’t kidnapped in some nondescript region deep in the dreaded Sambisa forest. No, Hauwa was snatched in a supposedly secure military environment. The Jihadists had brazenly attacked the town of Rann which is host to a military base and the IDP camp where she worked, killing a number of soldiers and aid workers in a way that further exposed the frailty of our ill-equipped defence forces. But consider this; Kamene Okonjo, the mother of ex-finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was released after five days in captivity when the full weight of our security forces was unleashed in Delta state moments after she was abducted whereas Chibok parents and others who have kids in captivity continue to live in despair. Just put yourself in the shoes of the Liman family for a moment. You can imagine a situation where a devastated father is appealing for a ‘proof of death’ from terrorists in order to get a last look at her angel and to bury her according to Islamic rites. The thought of such pain is the reason we cannot afford to relent, focus on the issue must be allowed to wither away under the campaigns. This is even more so for those conversant with Northern Nigeria, for we are better apprised on the magnitude of the dilemma. We can attest the vast complexity of the region, especially the poverty-stricken North East. A land where the most vulnerable members of the society are susceptible to doctrinal malleability and often used by unscrupulous politicians to achieve selfish ends. Mohammed Yusuf the late founder of Boko Haram capitalised on this canker to gather huge followership. He was so powerful that he nominated cabinet members for the Borno state government. A pointer to the ugly truth that beneath the facade of religious ideology lies a brutal and opportunistic political agenda. That is why we have so-called political leaders from the region walking along the corridors of power. Men like Ali Modu Sheriff and serving Senator Ali Ndume have at one time or the other been directly accused of sponsoring Boko Haram activities. But they are free men, they wine and dine among the most powerful in the country today and their daughters attend Ivy League schools on the other side of the Atlantic. We also have politicians like Atiku aspiring to lead the nation even when his kinsmen in Adamawa are perennially haunted by the dark shadow of terrorism. How is it possible that his interests and investments in the region are intact in the midst of all these atrocities by Boko Haram? How long shall we endure the incessant invasion our schools, and IDPs to abduct hapless women and children? When will

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Where Is Leah Sharibu? by Thisday

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We all need to be asking the same question like Thisday in this editorial…read on ———————————————————————————————————————————- Last Monday, May 14, Miss Leah Sharibu marked her 15th birthday in captivity. There were no family members and friends to show her love and to wish her happy birthday. Miss Sharibu was the only schoolgirl among the 110 students abducted from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19 that is still with the brutal terror group, Boko Haram. The rest, following what the federal government described as a series of “behind- the- scene- discussion” were returned March 21 to Dapchi, incidentally by the kidnappers themselves. Sharibu is being held back because of her faith: she is a Christian. But President Muhammadu Buhari had vowed then to ensure that “the lone girl was not abandoned.” It is unfortunate that almost two months after the president committed himself, Sharibu is still being held back by her captors. Quite naturally, Leah’s continued captivity has elicited great concern from Nigerians who are demanding for her immediate release. The parents of the teenager are understandably very worried. “President Buhari seemed to have forgotten about Leah,” said Rebecca Sharibu, Leah’s mother last week. “He promised us that Leah would be released but we wonder why it is taking such a long time to facilitate her release as was the case with the other 105 girls.” The BringBackOurGirls coalition at its usual sit-out last Monday also expressed utter disappointment over the continued detention of the schoolgirl. “Our movement is extremely saddened and distraught on this 83rd of her captivity, and the fact that the young teenager has had to mark her birthday in captivity with terrorists.” Besides, the group was exasperated that the parents of the young girl were abandoned by the government, just as the federal government had also not reached out to the families of the five schoolgirls that were unaccounted for. Indeed, the parents of the Dapchi released schoolgirls were not only outraged by the poor handling of Leah’s case, but that the government did not deem it expedient to condole with them over the death of five of their children, nor provided any form of psychological support to the girls who survived the one month trauma in the hands of the brutal insurgents. However, perhaps more troubling is the mistrust and sectarian bent and interpretation being sown among the populace as a result of the continued detention of Miss Sharibu. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the national umbrella for all Christians, has tasked the federal government to live up to expectations by working for the immediate release of Leah. The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria was more point blank: it said that Sharibu’s detention was a demonstration of increased hostilities and high level persecution against the Christian religion in Nigeria and the world at large. Last week, the federal government said it was doing its best to see to the release of Leah and indeed all others held in captivity by members of the fanatical sect. “Negotiations with insurgents are quite tortuous and complicated at times but I can assure you we are not leaving her to her fate and those who should are daily busy working on her release,” said Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture. Nothing less is expected. As this newspaper has argued repeatedly on this page, we cannot afford to give up on Leah or indeed the 112 Chibokgirls that are still pining away in captivity. They and many others held behind the lines represent a blur on our collective humanity. Therefore, the authorities must deploy all the necessary resources to get Leah and others out of the forest and into freedom. Nigerians desperately need the assurance that the federal government has the capacity to defend our territory and that the life of every single citizen matters. Nothing would symbolise that more than the return of Leah and of course, the Chibok schoolgirls.

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We are waiting and watching by Cardinal Okogie

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Whoever loves Nigeria should be concerned about the security of life and property within her borders. It affects all of us across party, ethnic and religious lines. It affects the rich and the poor. Unfortunately, it can, and it ought to be said that our political leaders constitute the greatest threat to security in this country, not armed robbers nor kidnappers, not Boko Haram nor herdsmen. Nigerians are currently forced to watch a show of shame by the ruling party of today and the ruling party of yesterday. Such are accusations and counter-accusations of looting that Nigerians find it difficult to differentiate between the accuser and the accused. Huge sums of money belonging to the people of Nigeria obviously got into wrong hands and for wrong reasons. There are good reasons to suspect that the looting that took place cut across party lines. Nigerians deserve to know how, for example, the two leading parties financed their campaigns in 2015. But instead of honest answers, we are treated by the two big parties to a theatrical display of politically motivated compilation of lists of looters. We are forced to say what Jesus said to the accusers of the adulterous woman in the Gospel: whoever has not sinned let him cast the first stone. Nigeria is like the man in the Gospel according to Luke who, travelling on the way to Jericho, fell into the hands of armed robbers who attacked him and left him for dead. Nigerians are impoverished by those who are put in charge of her enormous resources while our political leaders live in affluence. The standard of living continues to nosedive. And while politicians display ill-gotten wealth at birthday and wedding parties, there is widespread dilapidation of infrastructure. Our government got a friendly reminder recently. Counselled to invest resources on the people of Nigeria, its apologists, as usual, insulted the messenger. Has Bill Gates become a wailer and a looter, as critics of this government are often labelled? Two sectors were singled out in Gates’ discourse—education and health. It was a simple reminder of the saying: healthy minds in healthy bodies. Young Nigerians see how their future flies away from them, while those responsible for its flight buy properties in Dubai and elsewhere. We have enough to revamp the education and health sectors and secure the future of our children and children’s children. But our schools and hospitals are in decay. The money needed to keep them has been stolen while those who corner the money send their children to the best schools in Europe and North America. They even go to those places to treat a common headache at the expense of the ordinary Nigerian. As a result of the poverty visited on our people, especially our youths, it becomes easy to recruit them into all kinds of militia as another season of elections approaches. So we move from one unending season of insecurity to another. The fire of Boko Haram is yet to be extinguished. Government officials tell us Boko Haram is “degraded” or “technically defeated.” The same officials tell us they are discussing ceasefire terms with a defeated army. What a contradiction! This same “degraded” Boko Haram cruised in a convoy into Dapchi, abducted over 100 young schoolgirls without the Nigerian Army firing a shot, cruised back a few days later to return the girls, again, the Nigerian Army was nowhere to be found. If a defeated army can walk in and out of Nigeria with so much ease, like a hot knife through butter, what will an undefeated army do to us! As we speak, Leah Shabiru, one of the girls is still in captivity because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. A few days after her mates were released, the Inspector General of Police was on television assuring Nigerians she would be released in just a few hours. In just a few hours, the story changed. The boss of the Nigerian Police said he was misunderstood. Do government officials take us for fools? Nigerians of today are no fools! While the Boko Haram inferno continues, murderous herdsmen emerged, killing innocent Nigerians in a brutal reminder that government is either unable or unwilling to secure this land and its people. Nigerians hear of complaints by state governors accusing some soldiers and policemen of acts prejudicial to security. It is sad to hear such stories because there are young men and young women in the army and in the police in this country who have been sent to their early graves while protecting us. It is sad to hear that they are being betrayed by those who ought to be their comrades. What a Nation! But we must not generalise. Not all our soldiers and policemen and women are traitors. Yet, the need to sanitise these two institutions has attained grave urgency. In the same way, while there are peaceful and law-abiding herdsmen in this country, there is a militia of herdsmen terrorizing this country. The call to self-defence by a retired army general should cause apprehension. The legitimacy of self-defence is not in doubt. But who, in this season of partisanship, will check its modality, the morality of its means. Unchecked, that can open another chapter of bloodshed in this country. Instead of indecently jostling for positions in 2019, the immoral electioneering propaganda that has replaced good governance, and the vicious fight over whose turn it is to capture the pot of honey that Nigeria’s wealth is, our politicians across party lines should stop and ponder: what type of Nigeria are we handing over to our children and to our children’s children? Whether our political leaders in all the parties will seek wise answers to that question is left to be seen. That is why we are still watching and waiting. Source: The Guardian

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Dapchi kidnap: Another national embarrassment by Tribune

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Tribune newspaper captured my thoughts in this editorial on the Dapchi girls abduction. Read on… The nation was once again in the throes of anger and desperation following the abduction of students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, by Boko Haram. The incident came four years after the same terror group invaded a female school in Chibok, Borno State, taking into captivity, more than 200 girls. Up till now, more than 100 of those hapless girls remain in captivity, despite the repeated promises by the government that it would secure their release after a tripartite negotiated freedom for a number of their colleagues last year. Although the terrorists have sustained their sporadic attacks on mostly soft targets over time, the Monday onslaught on Dapchi College is most frightening, and virtually all the concerned authorities are enmeshed in panicky measures and cacophonies.  None has been able to provide concrete clues on the circumstances surrounding the abduction, particularly the actual number of the “unaccounted for girls.” At the initial stage, the authorities declared that none of the girls was missing, only for the military and the state government to later claim that the Army had rescued 50 students. The state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, promptly recanted and issued an apology, claiming that he was misled by a false intelligence report from a security agency involved in the war against insurgency. Sadly, almost a week after the tragedy, the actual number of students abducted or rescued remains speculative. Governments at state and federal levels and the military authorities are mired in claims and counter-claims. While President Muhammadu Buhari’s apology following the national embarrassment is a welcome development, the way the whole crisis has been handled is most nauseating, inconsiderate and discourteous. The government’s conduct following the calamity is shameful and degrading. It raises disturbing questions about its capacity and readiness to guarantee the safety of life and property across the country. In particular, the government’s conduct has fuelled public anger and made the parents and guardians of the abducted girls to question its capacity to manage crisis. It is totally unreasonable and callous for the government to preoccupy itself with fairy tales, claiming that some of the girls yet to be accounted for might be hibernating in the villages to which they fled after the onslaught on their college, instead of making serious efforts to track their whereabouts. We believe that the Dapchi abduction is not just another national calamity and embarrassment but an avoidable tragedy. If the various authorities had done the needful more diligently and faithfully, the back and forth between the state government and the military over security lapses before the incident and the rescue operation would have been entirely unnecessary. At this stage, it is important to caution that the Dapchi abduction should not be allowed to degenerate in the manner that the Chibok Girls saga did. Enough of buck-passing among the concerned authorities; the girls must be rescued without further delay. The somberness on the part of the Presidency must translate into quick re-uniting of the students with their families. Lastly, the whole episode should be investigated   and  whoever is found culpable should be sanctioned appropriately to show the place of discipline, professionalism and decorum in public service. Those who shirked their responsibility to protect life and property must not be allowed to go scot-free.

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