I LOVE IT WHEN WRITERS CAPTURE THE SITUATION ON MY MIND AS IT IS WITH THEIR LINGUISTIC FLAIR: THESE ARE SIMPLE TRUTHS. IT DOES NOT MEAN HATRED FOR THE LEADERSHIP. You and your aides have often accused your political opponents of sponsoring sorties of Boko Haram attacks. If this is true, then it’s your duty to do something about it. Nigerians are sick of this ploy, tired of the fruitless pointing at faceless, nameless nemeses. Unmask the sponsors, now. Order their arrest and prosecution, now. It doesn’t matter how politically or financially big they are. Go ahead: name, arrest and prosecute them. If you’re scared of these champions of death, if the arsenal of your presidential powers can’t match their homicidal will, then it’s time you stepped down from the office you hold. If Nigeria’s crime entrepreneurs are so big that the president and the institutions of the state must cower in fear of them, then Nigeria has zero reason to continue existing. -Prof. Okey Ndibe
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:48:37 +0000