[OPINION BY JULIUS OGUNRO] Abuja: Going, going … | TheCable
We should be worried that the pattern that led to a total breakdown of law and order in the far north, with bandits taking over communities, is already happening in Abuja. At present, we are at the early stages of this pattern. It starts with the bandits committing minor crimes in the outskirts of towns, then followed by carrying out violent and shocking crimes, before finally settling in safe communities and becoming the law and order in those places.
Even worse, intelligence reports suggest that some of the bandits are already settling-in in the hills and mountains around Mpape, a Maitama suburb, in AMAC local government area. AMAC, significantly, is the most cosmopolitan area in the FCT, the location of nearly all major government ministries, agencies, and parastatals. Please, note the pattern.
The authorities in Abuja are obviously aware of the dangers these groups pose. The reason that they hurriedly announced this week that all federal government schools be shut down. But that is only a knee-jack response to the threat of banditry and terrorism in the federal capital. Schools cannot be closed forever.
The truth is that these bandits could sense that the Nigerian state is weak and that there is so much the government can do. With a full-blown insurgency in the north-east and the lack of a comprehensive response to mass killings in the north-central, the criminals know that they too can get away with anything. The Nigerian state appears to have lost an important ingredient of statehood, the capacity to elicit fear and therefore deter crime.
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