Kano and Port Harcourt share some parallels. Both were once flourishing seductive cities of attraction. The former, with a 1,095 years
old city walls described as “‘the most impressive monument in West Africa” and an important Trans-Sahara trade centre that embraced Islamic faith in the 12th century, six decades before United Arab Emirate that hosts Dubai, the fourth most visited city in the world was born, while the latter was a great industrial centre and a celebrated garden city that was once a must-visit for Nigerians.
This however did not stop Rivers Muslim Community and its chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Tabaco who insisted what was demolished on August 20, was a mosque under construction. The leader of the Niger Delta’s People’s Salvation Force , Asari Dokubo, in fact maintained what Wike demolished was a mosque where he as “ a member of the congregation of the Trans-Amadi central mosque, his 21 children and 59 other children that live with him worship”.
It has been established that substantial part of N4b to N12b governors’ annual security votes, which they are not obliged to account for, go into funding of armed gangs to keep themselves in office. The PDP garrison commander of Ibadan politics, late Pa Adedibu, was the first to confirm the use of security funds for funding political terror groups when his dispute over sharing formula led to illegal impeachment of Governor Ladoja.
Unfortunately the governors while hobnobbing with drug pushers, gun-runners, armed robbers and other criminal elements, forget democracy which elsewhere in the democratic world operates on the platform of law and order, cannot survive on a culture of corruption, violence and lawlessness.
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