By
Political Animal
The present generation of northerners have refused to understand that they inherited a tragically mismanaged region.
Instead of rising up to the occasion and joining the race to compete in developing the region,they are busy chasing shadows and imaginary enemies from other regions.
It is prophetically clear that ,they may be wasting their best of years ahead , preoccupied with their safety while other regions keep widening the already wide gap between them.
It is fast becoming a land where killers are kings.The worst may be coming in that region.The almajiris are now taking up arms in whichever name you may call them because their leaders have shown that crime pays ,by keeping them on the streets.They have no choice than to join lawlessness ot the streets instead of begging as Almajiris.
This is sitting on a keg of gunpowder while the leaders are sleeping or maybe watching.
Though criminality is everywhere but I want to say that,it is becoming more obvious in the north because the youths are seriously seeking alternative means , whether legal legal, legitimate or not .The reason many are involved in gun crimes.
An idle hand is the devil’s workshop.Why must they be beggars in the first place when majority of those who have governed the country called Nigeria is from there.
These killers are becoming kings because ,they may not have money or education but they now possess instruments of violence with which nobody cares them.
Young boys and girls who could have learnt a hand work being abandoned on the streets.
Many that would have been engaged in farming or go to school being schooled to be beggars.
Almajiri life that should have been generally condemned and abolished continues to flourish .This is the “begging” solution to the vast security problems affecting the nation especially the north.Leaders must get involved in making the majority of nothern youths productive.
Another thing is that the north is getting preoccupied with irrelevant issues like unchecked polygamy because of religion.
Having so many wives and children on the streets with religious sentiments.Mixing religion with politics or gorvernance.Being intolerant of other people’s opinions on the state of their region, even if it is true.
Having many Political Draculas who have joined others from other parts of the country to engage in the looting spree which is not reflecting in the region.
Almajiris have become a lawless group that have found crime as the last option.
Do you blame them when they have people like sheik Gumi identifying with them and negotiating on their behalf with the federal government and standing as middleman. The businessman who is the head of the kidnappers in the region.
He knows where the bandits are but security agencies don’t know.He negotiates and possibly including his cuts.
The federal government doesn’t know the hideouts of the bandits but Gumi knows . Thank God that I am not as gullible and ignorant as many people are.
Gumi said that the federal government knows the hideouts of the bandits and up till now the federal government never came out to deny it.
Gumi was saying that he didn’t know the whereabout of the bandits directly, that even if he knew it , that someone used to give him the different locations in the bush where they are,where they would meet .Yet the federal government doesn’t know?
But at least the authentic ,Boko Haram heads are showing their faces. No more scales in our eyes.
Unfortunately we voted many unproductive senators and members of the house of representatives,who could have helped to unravel the missing link in the fight against terrorrists and terrorism.
These are politicians who would should have abandoned their ethnocentric sentiments and differences, if they were still human beings to help us out,but they only abandon their differences to achieve their evil plans politically.
It is a shame that we are in a land where lawmakers, human rights activists ,with so called Political correctness , only know how to do it the way it should and the way it is supposed to be done only when they have left public office.
I pray that killers shall not become kings in other zones or regions of the country.
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