Tension is beginning to brew, and if revenge attacks on Southerners begin here in the North, it will be difficult to control. Our enemies from within and outside, some well known by our security agencies, are more determined than ever to set us against each other, so that we may get to a point of no return when the conflagration begins.
The mayhem we see, almost everyday now, of killings and maiming of people of Northern extraction, including, especially, the Fulani, in some other parts of the country, is totally unacceptable. There is clearly a nefarious plan by the enemies of this potentially great country to initiate a violent crisis that may lead to its destruction.
Tension is beginning to brew, and if revenge attacks on Southerners begin here in the North, it will be difficult to control. Our enemies from within and outside, some well known by our security agencies, are more determined than ever to set us against each other, so that we may get to a point of no return when the conflagration begins.
There is no part of this country that is at peace. Local and neighbouring, including foreign, terrorists, are busy, fully armed, to cause whatever damage they can inflict on our dear country. I, therefore, call on President Buhari to take this insecurity and the ethnic lynchings happening very seriously, and put up urgent measures to deal with them without any more delays.
…urgent and decisive action is now necessary. If any Nigerian will not be allowed to live freely and conduct his/her life and business in any part of the country without being disturbed or molested or even killed, then no one should be allowed to settle and prosper anywhere else. If that were to be the case, then, we have no country.
I am sure, there is concern at the Presidency and discussions are being held. But, urgent and decisive action is now necessary. If any Nigerian will not be allowed to live freely and conduct his/her life and business in any part of the country without being disturbed or molested or even killed, then no one should be allowed to settle and prosper anywhere else. If that were to be the case, then, we have no country. That is how serious it is. And that is what our enemies desire.
We must not allow them by our inaction. Those foolish leaders and their stupid hirelings who encourage the expulsion of other Nigerians from their States, should remember that their own indigenes also live in other parts. They must stop, or the law should stop them by all means necessary.
Bashir Othman Tofa wrote from Kano State, Nigeria.
