Opinion: When A President’s Silence Isn’t Golden, By Banji Ojewale
Those our president have mandated to tackle insecurity are too busy attending to petty squabbles. Infighting is their preoccupation, more important than the constitutional duty of terminating the scourge threatening to terminate the nation.
Aren’t we at that pass? Aren’t we sometimes reluctant to turn on the radio and TV? Are we always comfortable with buying grief when we buy the newspapers, knowing we shall be herded sheepishly into a world filled with the news and pictures of a ‘technically defeated’ Boko Haram inflicting more pain and anguish as they operate freely? Knowing violence has become a daily affair here; isn’t it easy for a news editor sitting somewhere in Johannesburg or Doha or London or Atlanta to predict in the...
As I was composing this piece, news came that Boko Haram terrorists have so far killed 547 teachers in the North-East of Nigeria alone. The president of the teachers’ union, Nasir Idris, said insecurity in the region had thus led to more challenges: Increase in out-of-school kids who are potential recruits for the insurgent Boko Haram and politicians who rely less on the vote to get to power. They are also ready candidates for cult and armed robbery gangs.
Those our president have mandated to tackle insecurity are too busy attending to petty squabbles. Infighting is their preoccupation, more important than the constitutional duty of terminating the scourge threatening to terminate the nation. They ought to be removed without delay, for fresh hands and fresh ideas to come in.
How does that comfort Nigerians? It doesn’t. It only says we haven’t arrived in the land promised us by our leaders when they traversed land and sea seeking our votes. The central government’s argument crushes our hopes as we mark the second anniversary of the captivity of Leah Sharibu, the young citizen Boko Haram gunmen have refused to free since they seized her in February 2018.
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