Ala Joseph Conrad classic novel, Heart of darkness we are the architect of our calamities and ourselves enemies yet we kept on grumbling, taken a jibe at any slightest chance calling names, cursing leaders, chasing the shadows and keep on looking at our dear nation thrown into state of semi anarchy, primitive and set on the pretext of dying slowly if care is not taken God forbid.
Take for instance ,in a matter of week I read a painful story of four years old tale of two girls roaming the nook and cranny of Kano and Adamawa, hawking and selling Flour bean cake (Wainar Fulawa ) and Tomato , for god sake which kind of parents and loose society we are ?A four year old kid that still is in need of his ,her mummy heat and warm body, nursing and pet care are let loose within the evil prey predators to gallivant in the street a midst kind and evil hearts people all in the name of seeking means of survival, what a cruel treatment .
Fortunately mother luck smile upon the girls , as good Samaritan in Kano apprehend the girl and carried her to Hisbah, who vowed to find her parents and ensure they reap what they sew , as for the Adamawa one she catches the attention of Senator Elisha Abbo, who saw her hawking whereby he bought her tomatoes at the rate of fifty thousand naira and promise to sponsor her education.Our soaring and permeating system of outdated Almajirci Qur’anic education system in the North, by neglecting our kids deliberately and setting them loose at the mercy of street coupled with entanglement of their infant life at the detriment of the parental care is pure wickedness due to the transients changing that is contrary to yester years to contemporary civilizations we are nowadays, ranging from demands to populations , culture, leadership, religion and communities day to day social life activities. Despite that it is not the issue that I want to delve into ,I cited it as an example of the kind of society we are.It is only in this nation ,that her citizens are in jovial mood when government policies failed just because they are aligned to other political party or have her sympathy, the same citizens that are extremely happy when humans are been bombed ,targeted or apprehended by kidnappers or attacked by bandits and quickly comes to their social media handles and mockred the government, security officials and other stakeholder , hypocritically they are either Muslims or Christians in terms of religious belief ,and you wonder why despite the numerous teaching of their religion that teaches ,peace ,unity ,harmony and emotions, perhaps the biggest of all you have to ask are they really human beings , don’t they have humanity in them ?
At times , I didn’t blame the countries that regulate the activities of religious preaching and social media handling ,countries like Isra’el, North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey , Niger Republic , as their authorities knew the implications of the two weapons ,which if it was set loose and controlled by any Tom ,Dick and Harry it may spell doom for them.
From Birom militia in Plateau, to Jukun and Tiv one in Benue and Taraba ,down to Urhobo and Itsekiri, in Delta ,proceed to Oduduwa people Congress in the Yoruba states , Kalare ,Sara Suka in Gombe and Bauchi, Bandits and Kidnappers in Zamfara, Katsina , Kano, and Kaduna, to murderous Boko Haram insurgent in Northeast , the sing and dance of the tune is same basking in the glory of bloodbath, devilish rapacious and pitiless killings of innocent people lust of blood is order of the day without rancour, attacks that are primitive and barbaric to ourselves ,that even notorious Huns, Gothics ,Romans and Persians or Black Hawks ,Pocahontas, Macatawa , Cherokee and Aztecs Red Indians, of Medieval Europe , Latin America , who historically reach nadir in netoriority of bloodshed and their cruelty ring bells globally can not compete or be happy with our perfections in carrying the wanton destruction , a sojourn of Rwandan replica as graves are not yet full , we are always happy and some of our leaders and their deciples depend it vigorously simply because they have access to key pads and cheap data , as they knew the wrath of laws will never befall them , at certain times even muster courage of issuing warnings for further escalations, and their hopeless lazy youths followers glorified them what a nation we are.
A nation whereby the seeds of mistrust and hatred was thought and passed to generations in ethno religious sector , by not even an illiterate or ordinary person but by intellectuals too and educated illiterate that join the bandwagon.
Yes, I was in kind of a tete a tete with my elder colleague a fatherly figure as well as colleague , name with held ,he narrated to me a story of his travail during his service to the fatherland way back 35 years ago , he was posted to a state in a middle belt to serve ,upon his arrival in a school that he was to serve (teach ) he found a hostile students that are notorious in hatred towards certain ethnics that are predominant in the North ,he too inclusive , as the time goes he found later a book that teach the ideology comprehensively.
56 years after the first coup d etet, and 50 years after the civil war , still we are yet to overcome the tribalism and ethnicity inclination, we continued to create and aid a significant danger of our unity as nation through exaggerated and encouraged well orchestrated hatred via intellectuals writings and fictions , writed by various authors to support their tribe ,views and stands, and fuelled the flame of hatred almost five decade score with end of that calamity that befall this entity ….
Oh what a country, that some gullible minds are happy about gruesome murders and killing perpetrated by heartless Boko Harams zealots fanatics, of recent in Auna, where they kill score and burnt alive innocent passengers ,yet some heartless evils in form of humans are celebrating it as the shortcomings of the incumbent administration , to the extent some are posting the gory pictures in social media and blaming people as their fault in voting the current government for God sake , and to think they are humans , I pity our people and their humanity .
In as much I despises president Muhammad Buhari some policies due to poor approaches and lack of awareness security inclusive, am shocked by the booing he received in Maiduguri and sympathize with him and Borno residents as I knew all parties are committed and serious in fighting and ensuring the decade insurgency comes to an end, yet the sad part of it the case is reserved as frequents well coordinated attacks keep on occurring , it is time for PMB and his administrative to canvass support and listen with keen ear ,to people plea and residents that have technical know how and policies to tackle the menace , including changing the service chiefs if it’s necessary and would pave way for restoring the lasting peace.
War is a lucrative business as succinctly Jeremy Scahill, exposed and take us into ride of how multi corporate arms companies and top government officials, army generals benefits and feeding fat on to it , in his award winning book ‘Blackwater the rise of the world most powerful mercenary army.Companies like Blackwater ,Dyncorp, Halliburton, ArmorGroup, Hart, Kroll,KBR, Aegis and co siphoned billions of dollars , while the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan , Pakistan ,Libya and Congo DR, Syria are constantly under the hell acre of war. Perhaps it is time now to tell them in famous Charlse De Gaulle message in Algiers “Je Vouis ai Compris”(I understood you). They will not let it go easily as they are feeding fat, so we too ‘We understood you’ !
Aminu writes from Dakata Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State .
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