By Segun Ige
After the mild unrest of schoolboys and schoolgirls in the North, typically the same narrative of banditry and terrorism is fast beginning to surface in the South West of the federation.
It’s clear that this zone itself has been silently suffering from killers and kidnappers. It’s a done deal that it’s not only the North that has exclusively been experiencing mutating monopolisation, after all, especially with the wake of Iskilu Wakili in the growing discourse of insecurity in the polity.
It was on Sunday, March 7 that Wakili was reported to have been apprehended. It has been speculated that Wakili has been an ardent and adherent opposition Fulani figure wreaking havoc in Oyo State, a warmonger, fomenting outrageous acts that narrowly suck breath out of men and women. These bad pictures, really, are subtle reminders of how, on the one hand, brazen brigands continue to bull innocent souls in the “uncompleted buildings” of the state and how, on the other hand, we’ve not taken full responsibility of the whole country. Seriously speaking, I think the issue of security should be our utmost concern, now, and that necessity is laid upon us to fight the battle for the soul of the nation.
Many people would immediately admit, wrongly, that “fighting the battle for the soul of the nation” is only an American dictum of restoring peace and order, tolerance and equity. Surely, as of now, the sine qua non does behove us, and it’s quintessential to restoring Nigeria back to where the principle of “ubuntu” is particularly a political practice.
Ideally and tactically, it could be argued, apart from the Wakili wake-up call, that we should begin to fill up loopholes and potholes putting the lives of Nigerians at risk and peril, that sooner or later this second-wave outbreak of banditry is likely to spread across other zonal states. And to be sure, the issue of insecurity is increasingly become a political pandemic we need to vaccinate,…
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