By Frank Momoh
There is no doubt that Nigeria is today at the tether and in complete security mess. The unrelentless killings of innocent Nigerians across the country especially in the recent weeks can be better described as a ‘catastrophic or a tragic war that have beheld the country.
Thess challenges of all sorts including the innumerable senseless killings have festered and defied external and remote solutions. Honestly, this is one tragic too many.
The question, that keeps bordering the mind is where is the country headed even as politicians are busy running up and down the country canvassing for votes against 2023.
If 56,000 Boko Haram and ISWAP members have surrendered and given up their arms, as federal government is lazily making us to believe, how come the killing spree continues daily, indexing Nigeria as one of the world’s hotspots for killings.
In all candidness, the pervasive insecurity has holed Nigerians to their bone marrow. You must fast and pray before you rightly think of travelling by road across the country.
There is no doubt these ugly evidences are fast eroding whatever the government is touting as its achievements in its near 8 years run, if not obliterating it.
It is in the mix of these unanswered puzzles that PRESIDENT BUHARI MOURNS BORNO, KATSINA VICTIMS OF TERROR.
According to his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, in a statement he signed on Wednesday, he said, today, Nigeria is in mourning for the senseless loss of lives in Borno and Katsina States over the last 48 hours, adding that the holds the victims in his thoughts and his prayers.
He said: “The perpetrators will be brought to justice–and they are running scared. Fifty-six thousand (56,000) Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists have surrendered to the authorities in a year and still counting.
“That these terrorists and bandits have been reduced to scavenging from our artisanal miners and farmers for survival is evidence that they are backed into a corner.
“This will be small comfort to the family members and loved ones of those murdered this week. But it is in times like these that we must be at our strongest.
“Now more than ever Nigerians must come together, in proud defiance of those who would seek through terror and violence to divide us along religious, political or ethnic lines.
“And, so while we are in mourning for those we have lost, let us face these cowards already fading in strength, number and willpower as one.”
Garba Shehu, has called on Nigerians who are not carrying arms not to be swayed by ferocious terrorists, adding: “Let us show them that Nigerians will not be divided. Let us show them we will not be defeated.”
The big question that we will keep asking at this time is, who will fix the nation’s security mess?
Mallam Garba Shehu: Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, signed the statement on behalf of Presidency.
