Opinion: Public Safety: As Nigeria Gallops Towards the Tipping Point, By Jibrin Ibrahim
In this context, maybe the most frightening story is from Anambra State, where the director of child welfare services in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, Mrs. Nkechi Anazodo, announced that 80 rape cases had been reported to the Ministry. She explained with anguish that: “Sexual violence has become the order of the day, especially during this period of lockdown. Even old men now rape children of 12 years and below. The problem we have is that people don’t report.
For over one decade now, attackers would move in large numbers and kill, and there would be no response from the State while these were happening. It means that over this period, the State has not felt the need to develop the capacity for rapid intervention to attack on citizens. No one understands how people can steal cattle and drive them on foot for days, going through villages, and they are never caught! There are only two explanations to this situation that makes sense.
When states are unable to provide for public safety for prolonged periods of time, people come to realise that there are no sanctions for bad behaviour. This realisation creates a new dynamic in society. The worst elements in society, the thieves, the morally depraved, the rapists and the murderers come to the realisation that it is their turn to do as they please. They then impose their behaviour as the new normal and the descent towards the pits of hell accelerates.
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