Terrorists
It’s easy and a lazy exercise to continue to blame the federal government for not taking strong action and bringing the full weight of the state on kidnapping, but the matter is not as simple as it seems.
For every successful crime there’s an enabler (enablers) who facilitates the crime and makes it a work over for perpetrators.
For sometime, the public spaces have been inundated with reports of complicity of community members aiding and abetting abductors by supplying them information on movement of security operatives, who and who not to kidnap and giving further logistics.
This medium is disturbed by a recent revelation of the minister of defence retired General Christopher Musa, who noted that the protracted banditry and insurgency owe their continued activities to the support and backing of some unpatriotic members of the community who supply intelligence to the horde of armed non state actors who have been wrecking havoc and terror.
It’s worrisome that in spite of the declaration of the minister and other revelations to that effect, coupled with the government’s awareness of some terror sponsors, the alleged prosecution of some of them has been slow, desultory, opaque and political.
When it comes to terror, governments all over the world are known to put their boots on the ground, exacting the full weight of the state to bear on the war against perpetrators, while their prosecution often receives speed and velocity required of a crime that involves mass murder of innocent citizens.
We urge the current administration to avoid political correctness, human life is important should not be subjected to contingencies whether political, economic or moral.
It’s imperative that the federal government should speed up the prosecution of all terror sponsors no matter how highly placed, and such should be done with utmost transparency and openness. In the same vein, members of the community aiding and abetting bandits and insurgents should be arrested and prosecuted with such firmness and legal weight as to serve as deterrent to others.
Nigerians have had enough of this terror. It’s time to put a leash on perpetrators.
