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It is only fair to release all kidnappers in Nigerian prisons and those awaiting trials because bandits are given amnesty left and right in the same country.
Evans should not be in court for any crime.He should be given amnesty forthwith.
If killers and terrorists are being celebrated just because of their ethnic origin,
why not kidnappers?.
A top bandits’ commander in Zamfara identified as Auwalu Daudu who has been in the news over the years for ruthless killings said he had agreed to surrender his guns to authorities after he learnt that banditry is fruitless and meaningless.
It is disheartening that the State government is celebrating him on social media.
Somebody that has made many widows and widowers and many orphans.
Some are even homeless.
Listen to him: “I have submitted my 20 rifles to the state government authorities.”
Is that all it takes to be free from mass murder in Nigeria?
The conclusion is likely that this criminal can no longer be taken to court or go to jail.Who will do that?.
They may even settle him with millions of naira to add to the one he has made as ransom through banditry,plus one Hilux van.The whole issue in Nigeria is very confusing.
There is confusion everywhere.While we were blaming some herdsmen for the kidnap and killing of the Edo philanthropist recently,it has finally been realised that he was kidnapped and killed by his jealous kit and kin.Nawaooo.
It is also very terrible that some people’s business in Nigeria is to dig potholes on tarred roads ,so that people can slow down to buy things from roadside hawkers?.
In some parts of Lagos the boys deliberately cause holdup arround a particular area,to break the windscreen of some private cars to rob owners of their items at gunpoint.
You may lose your phone,purse or laptops.What is really going on.?
Some are called manhole cover thieves who set such deathtraps on highways or major roads (steal metal covers).Many have lost their lives as a result of such deathtraps.
Nobody has been able to apprehend the criminals who are within the neighborhood.
How can any sane person openly put the lives of pedestrians at risk for little or no money?.Terrible heartlessness.
It is been discovered that as busy as the Benin-Lagos highway and express road (ORE) in particular, that residents along the highway pour raw acid on the tarred roads to dig potholes ,to halt traffic or for robbery.
A phenomenon that I was told has been there over the years.What a business!!.
That some people’s business is to dig potholes on roads from year to year,so that they can do whatever they want to do with innocent citizens?
Some people did a poll recently on who is responsible for Nigeria’s problems between the Government and the people.Bear in mind that the “people” and “the people” are the same.
We can only make such a difference when we talk about the Government of the people by the people for the people which we don’t have in Nigeria.
Some voted “the people”while others voted ” the Government”My own vote is that ” we are the problem”
But I also believe that it is the Government.
If the citizens keep doing evil things and are rewarded by the Government,if people keep doing evils and killings and the Government cannot enforce the laws or enforcement based on ethnicity .
If I can do anything I like and there is no consequence of system for punishing offenders,or l can go scot-free based on where I come from,then ,why not.?
If there was justice,if people were arrested and punished,both rich and poor,the level of lawlessness all over the nation would have been reduced.
The question is;Is it possible to isolate those who are our problem in Nigeria,old and young ,men and women, boys and girls,because these are all demons in all age-ranges all over the nation?
My answer to the question is that until we get leadership and governance issues right in Nigeria,it may be very very difficult.
What do you think?
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