Any government, anywhere in the world, which does not have the capacity to protect its citizens against criminal elements, is a failed and dead government, no matter the number of spin doctors it employed to paint its image as succeeding. Governments’ success is weighed by its ability to provide social amenities and social welfare, as well as the provision of watertight security around even the least citizens on the streets to the extent that citizens can move freely at any time of the day or night, whenever the need for such movements arises.
In Nigeria, there appears to be no government in place. The people who wield political powers in Nigeria are mere impostors, rogue politicians who rigged themselves into positions of authority using violence and election rigging. Hence, these cannot be mindful of whatever existential challenges and threats the citizens are facing.
For this reason, federal lawmakers can shamelessly tell us that they would waste billions of naira from the public till to purchase Toyota Prado SUVs for themselves because the country’s road networks are in disarray. But they would not compel the Executive Arm to fix the roads through credible legislations. Ordinary Nigerians lack food, clothing, housing, good roads, water, jobs, effective health care services, and most importantly, they lack the security of their lives and property.
In the recent times, Nigeria’s security architecture has collapsed. Life has become brutish as a conniving security agencies, mostly the military and police, aid terrorists in the abductions and killings of innocent citizens. An example is the Kebbi State abduction of school children by terrorists late last year as the military personnel guarding the school dismantled their checkpoints and went into hiding while the criminals operated without checks.
Last January, terrorists boldly kidnapped over 170 worshippers in different Churches in Kaduna State. Disappointingly, security and government officials deliberately denied there was anything of such that happened in that state.
Shockingly, three weeks after the abduction of the Christians, nothing has been done by the government to secure their release. Instead, President Bola Tinubu and some members of his cabinet have engaged in globetrotting, claiming they are wooing investors. Investors coming to invest in a war-torn country? Here is the level of insensitivity of the so-called Nigerian political leaders. What a shame!
Honestly, Nigeria needs a revolution; a revolution that will give us a people’s Constitution-one that can guarantee credible elections that will ensure that these bandits in the garb of political class, can never have opportunities anymore to force themselves into political offices. No credible political leaders elected by the people will abandon them at the mercy of pounding insecurity, and begin to shop for investors abroad.
It is certain that the revolution that can liberate Nigeria from the iron claws of bandits in politicians clothing can never be achieved easily, but we’ll keep pushing through our medium until God comes down to our help. Believe me, it must happen one day because, injustice cannot last forever. God forbid!
