We do not need a soothsayer to tell us that Nigeria as a nation is in trouble, considering a particular event that keeps on unfolding itself day by day.
Nigeria has returned to Thomas Hobbian’s state of nature. Where life was short and brutal. Survival of the fittest was order of the day in the Thomas Hobbian’s state of societal development. Human life is no longer sacred in the present day Nigeria. Violence and killing like corruption have been institutionalized in the country.
Last week no fewer than 129 girls at the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State were abducted by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, an Islamic killer squad. This Islamic killer group has been terrorizing the country since President Goodluck Jonathan stepped into the Aso Rock Villa.
One week after the kidnap of the school girls, our security agents are unable to crack down on the abductors and free them rather it was reported that some of the abductees escaped from their abductors. Before the abduction of the school girls, there was a bomb blast at Nyanya bus terminal, Abuja which resulted to the dead of over 79 persons.
On Sunday last week, gunmen killed 15 persons in Gidin Doruwa village in Wukari Local Government Area in Taraba State.
The country is under siege. Several Nigerians are blaming the President on the increasing activities of the Islamic fundamentalists.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is continued to intensify efforts to ensure that he put to an end the insurgents in the country. There are so many northern politicians that are working against the success of the President Jonathan’s administration. Boko Haram is what they are using to destabilize the governance at the federal level.
As far as the activities of Boko Haram are concerned in the north, President Jonathan is not to be blamed. He is innocent; rather the Buharis and Atikus should take the blame considering their statement they voiced out shortly after their defeat in 2011 election. They are fulfilling the promise made to Nigerians in 2011 general election. They promised Nigerians that they would make the country ungovernable if Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan emerges as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
However, appropriate security measures should be put on ground to combat violence and killings in the country. If nothing is being done to tackle the insurgents in no distant time Nigeria will not exist on the map of the world.###
Damiete West
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