Insecurity: Leaders, masses in trouble, Govt must rise

Insecurity threats in Nigeria have grown into full blown albatross. The menace has expanded and strengthen its tentacles to the extent that terrorists are having their feast day with effrontery to operate flagrantly without caution. The narratives recently have seen terror operations taking tolls of wanton destruction as perpetrators are deeply assuming emboldened disposition to unleash terror on communities across the Country. The resulting reactions have left, in the atmosphere, a heated polity with the sensations of panic and fear.

The effrontery of terror groups has grown up to the height that it would be sufficient enough for them to declare boldly of intending to kidnap the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with full flagrant disposition. The unchecked claws of terror operations have seen the sprouting wings of its spread discomfitting the entire fabrics of the Country. Recently, the terror wing of banditry has left unsavoury narratives for the Country. Kidnapping-for-ransom by bandits has become a terror venture  which has assumed an elaborate bandit enterprise of terror. The occupation has seen an entire zone, as of the North-west, recently subjected to terror storms.

The unwavering confidence of bandits, declaring with boldness, their aim to kidnap the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who according to constitutional provisions, embodies the authority of the Commader-in-Chief of the Nigerian Arm Forces, speaks danger to the entire Country.Terrorists, who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28, 2022, have threatened to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. The terrorists in a fresh video showing the torturing of their captors, vowed to sell and kill the remaining captives in their den if their demands are not met. Torturing their captors with strokes, they said with their fiendish posture, “This is our message to the government of Nigeria and just as you have seen these people here, by God’s grace, you will see your leaders; your senators and governors will come before us. These ones you are seeing here, we will keep some as our slaves and sell them off just as our Imam told you in the past. Just like the Chibok girls that were sold off, we will equally sell these ones as slaves. If you don’t adhere to our demands, we will kill the ones we need to kill and sell the remaining. By God’s grace, El-Rufai, Buhari, we will bring them here.

“You should understand, look properly it’s not our intention to, but it’s the outcome of what the Nigerian government is doing, setting a committee, a tea party in Kaduna to deliberate on how to rescue these people. They are there, enjoying the tea. You should know that there is nothing that the committee can do. They can’t do anything. Are you not relying on guns? Your aircraft and your guns are like spiders web to Allah. We are for Allah, we are doing it for Allah. We are not afraid of anybody. You should know that this is a little that you’ve seen. Know that, if our demands are not met, this place will become an abattoir,” one of the terrorists said.

A target at the echelons of political leadership in the Country, reflects an elaborate misadventure of articulated calculations to break down the fabrics of government with ill agenda to overrun constitutional authority  in the Federation. The magnitude of the attempt has gone beyond the trivialised posture the government has apparently assumed. The lack lustre disposition of the government, as of insensitivity, speaks ill of justifying the alleged assertion from some quarters that the government has assumed a posture of giving soft landing to terrorists to have their feastings with impunity. The masses are not only the threatened and troubled, the leaders are now also wanted and may not enjoy been  sacred cows as may be assumed.

Such effrontery to overrun holders of critical political positions,  reflects nothing but the depth of how emboldened terror formation has grown to assume – a posture that is, in its entire reflection, a spittle to the face of the highest political-governmental apparatus of the Nigerian Federation. Where such threat is posed against the highest force of the Federation, then the security of the common Nigerians is in jeopardy, and gone beyond the check of the government. All indications prove  apparently an handicapped posture of the government to eliminate terror forces  ravaging the Country with the storms of deformities, reflecting the inertia of the government.

The posture of the government in contest against terror forces in the Country, appear to reflect nothing but a frustrated entity which has been confounded and discomfitted before illegitimate non-state actors, taking over the attraction of influence to prove a sense of entitlement to topple the government and overrun the Country.  The magnitude of the threat the Country is faced with, is such that threatens the state status of the Federation as a political entity. The apparent docile posture of the government to the menace remains lamentable. Watching the force of terror to expand its tentacles without concertedly and correspondingly developing responsive architectures of resistance to clampdown and eliminate the sprouting wings, speaks ill of the government – a misrepresentation of what good and proactive governance speaks.

It has become of necessity for the government to rise to its preserve of protecting lives and properties – a demand which bears a nucleus status among the functions of the necessity for a government. Where a government cannot provide the architecture to protect lives and properties, it has not been out of place to describe same as “failed”, having lost the central grip of its essence.

The only choice before the government to revamp its relevance is to rise to the demands of forceful potency to rescue the Nigerian society from the scourge of terrors, among other wings of insecurity threats ravaging the fabrics of the Country, an unsavoury condition that has left citizens across the Country dismayed and troubled. Restoring peace and tranquility is the only atmosphere that would rationally justify appreciable coexistence for growth and development to take course. The government must rise to the demands!