Frantic Days: Sanni Inuwa Baba
Frantic Days
The last two weeks have been a very sad time for almost everyone around the world, ranging from natural disasters and self inflicted pains to our lives. Internationally, floods have been recorded in many cities, there was a plane crash and there was also a terrorist attacks.
Back home, the story is even worse, just within few days, it was reported that over a hundred lives were lost in Kaduna State, countless abductions in Katsina, for Bauchi state- a whole Garrison Commander was shot dead, communal clashes in Benue State and in Zamfara State, Gov. Yari claimed that those on the killing spree in his state are better equipped than the mighty Nigerian Military.
For many sane Nigerians, it won’t take a second to easily condemn killings of any person. For a matter of fact, it hurts so much to find animals being in conditions they won’t want to find themselves in. It even hurts more seeing how people decide which life is worth being eliminated.
I stand to be corrected that only an insane individual could take the life of someone else’s father, a mother to some as well as taking the lives of children. There’s no justification to this. It is either a total madness or they are suffering from a sort of sickness that they shouldn’t be amongst us.
Another unfortunate side of the whole killings is that the killers consciously or unconsciously make us to be enemies of ourselves, which at the end, we no longer focus on who the real enemy is.
The killers, whoever they are, and whatever name we have chosen to call them( Fulani Herdsmen, Boko Haram or Cattle Rustlers) do not ask who you are or where you come from when they want to unleash their devilish acts. Like never before, this is the time that Nigerians have to come together and realize that we are all victims to these incidents. That is of course by acknowledging that each life matters.
The military and other security personnel are really doing their best as they are paying the ultimate price on daily basis. However, some people do believe that something is going wrongly in terms of the strategy in handling the entire situation. Gradually, no one is safe anymore.
Someone argued few days ago that if a commissioner of Police like CP Wakili could handle Kano in a time that violence was highly predicted, it’s long overdue the soldiers on the frontline get something or someone that could motivate them.
Sanni Inuwa Baba
The last two weeks have been a very sad time for almost everyone around the world, ranging from natural disasters and self inflicted pains to our lives. Internationally, floods have been recorded in many cities, there was a plane crash and there was also a terrorist attacks.
Back home, the story is even worse, just within few days, it was reported that over a hundred lives were lost in Kaduna State, countless abductions in Katsina, for Bauchi state- a whole Garrison Commander was shot dead, communal clashes in Benue State and in Zamfara State, Gov. Yari claimed that those on the killing spree in his state are better equipped than the mighty Nigerian Military.
For many sane Nigerians, it won’t take a second to easily condemn killings of any person. For a matter of fact, it hurts so much to find animals being in conditions they won’t want to find themselves in. It even hurts more seeing how people decide which life is worth being eliminated.
I stand to be corrected that only an insane individual could take the life of someone else’s father, a mother to some as well as taking the lives of children. There’s no justification to this. It is either a total madness or they are suffering from a sort of sickness that they shouldn’t be amongst us.
Another unfortunate side of the whole killings is that the killers consciously or unconsciously make us to be enemies of ourselves, which at the end, we no longer focus on who the real enemy is.
The killers, whoever they are, and whatever name we have chosen to call them( Fulani Herdsmen, Boko Haram or Cattle Rustlers) do not ask who you are or where you come from when they want to unleash their devilish acts. Like never before, this is the time that Nigerians have to come together and realize that we are all victims to these incidents. That is of course by acknowledging that each life matters.
The military and other security personnel are really doing their best as they are paying the ultimate price on daily basis. However, some people do believe that something is going wrongly in terms of the strategy in handling the entire situation. Gradually, no one is safe anymore.
Someone argued few days ago that if a commissioner of Police like CP Wakili could handle Kano in a time that violence was highly predicted, it’s long overdue the soldiers on the frontline get something or someone that could motivate them.
Sanni Inuwa Baba
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