1. Armed Banditry Business in NorthernNigeria
Terrorism business in the far Northern Nigeria, has assumed
new dimensions over the years. It has given birth to all forms of
banditry, enveloping most states in the North. The bandits as
they are called, are Boko Haram fighters and other terrorists, in
disarray from their bases in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, in the
North East.
They are now “diversifying” into less dangerous, yet criminal
means of livelihood. For instance, they are now into illegal
mining, robbery, kidnapping, and hired thuggery in the case of
Southern Kaduna. Of course,many of them who disguise as
armed Fulani Herdsmen, unleash mayhem on non-Muslim
communities.
They are out of control of their original sponsors_Northern elite
and politicians. These terrorists (sorry bandits), are springing up
all over the North: in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna,
Nassarawa, name them, apart from the ones operating in the
North East for years now. Nigerian Government has a
lackadaisical approach, toward this dangerous phenomenon
ravaging the whole North. And if nothing urgent is done,
terrorism and banditry, will overwhelm the whole of Northern
Nigeria. And they can never come out of it.
Those highly placed individuals, who finance and make
fortunes from havoc caused by these hoodlums with religious
undertone, will live to regret it. Already, these insurgents and
bandits are turning against their mentors for breach of
“sponsorship agreements.”They now burn mosques,and kill
fellow tribesmenand Muslims, among other atrocities. All those
outlaws have certain things in common.They rape, kill, burn
houses, rob, and kidnap people.Their activities are like a time
bomb,that will explode in the North, if not checked.
In some states like Zamfara and Sokoto,they are into illegal
mining. They use their arms to force their way into the mining
sites. Inhabitants living around are cleared or driven away.
2. Even security agents are scared to go close.Many of them are
being shot dead or kidnapped.Bandits control territories to
enhance their criminal operations.
In Kaduna State, they operate as hired armed gangs, to
depopulate and subjugate Christian communities in the
Southern Kaduna. They are being used by those at the helm of
affairs, to fight non-Muslims in Southern Kaduna. Tens of
thousands of people have been killed, houses burnt, women
raped, communities sacked, under the watch of Governor El-
rufai. He has a nonchalant and hypocritical attitude, toward the
bloodbathin his state, against predominantly Christian
population in the south. There was a period he paid armed
Fulani terrorist gangs in the state.
Arrest and prosecutionof the midgetGovernor of Kaduna state
by International Criminal Court (ICC), is overdue for aiding and
abetting bloodshed in his state. His misguided comments and
inciting statements, are not helping matters. Nigeria has
become akilling field, to the extent that human lives are almost
equated with those of cows. Some gunmen or bandits now
moving freely on the streets in the North, brandishing their AK
47. What a lawless society.
Leadership of Nigerian Government shouldn’t be left off the
hook of ICC either. It is a fact that when the head is sick, the
rest of the body is affected.The killings going on across the
country by bandits: Fulani Herdsmen, and other terrorists, are
eloquent testimony of the kind of bad and heart less rulers we
have in the country. Nigeria is under the stranglehold of illiterate
and fetish rulers, who have no fear of God in them, though they
claim to be religious. All those directly and indirectly involved, in
the senselesskillings and maiming in the North and Middle Belt
mostly, can never escape the wrath of God.A day of reckoning
must come.
The current leadership of ICC should be investigated and
changed, especiallythe PresidentJustice Osuji, for corruption
3. and incompetence.His unauthorized and suspicious visits to
Nigerian Government at the peak of human right abuses,left
much to be desired.Instead of inviting Nigerian President and
his surrogates for serious questioning, he was given honourary
invitation to ICC headquarters, where he lectured the ICC
judges,on respectfor human right. It was like Elizabeth
Taylor’s lecture on chastity, (a prostitute teaching against
harlotry). He was left to go scot-free;and the killings are getting
worse day by day.
Many people are of the strong opinion that money changed
hands, in order to downplay the atrocities going on in Nigeria.
They never cared to investigate the strong allegation of cloned
impostorfrom Sudan, who is lording it over people of Nigeria,
particularly Southerners. ICC is a total failure, as far as the
sponsoredbloodbath in Nigeria remains overlooked,including
the shooting, killings and torture of Biafra agitators.
The earth tremors that shook Kaduna sometime ago,should
serve as a lesson to all. Jehovah has power over natural
disasters.He is not happy about the killings going on
everywhere unabated. Let us not provoke Him into allowing
natural disasters like earthquake to occur in Nigeria.
One day, we shall all individually give account of our lives to our
creator Almighty God. He said the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, “The soul that sins, it shall die. The
son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the
father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked
shall be upon him”—Ezekiel 18:20.
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