NIGERIA IS ON FIRE

 

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-Blessing Paul Àjàyí

It is saddening to write about the insecurity state of my beloved country. It hits my fragile heart with pains to see the security fence of my country, heavily dilapidated, rendering us absolutely porous to spate of killings, on a daily basis. Our security architecture has indeed been made susceptible, and now the enemies of our nation, have crept in, like lizards, through the broken walls of our defence. Our lives are no longer safe in the nation where we profess to have a bond of love and unity, making us one nation. If our lives are now open to death in cold blood by the enemies within, how much more our properties? When lives are nothing to them to gun down or blast off, what do we say of our items of property? Flotsam!

I wept, watching Senator Smart  Adeyemi, representing Kogi State, lending his voice to the state of the nation's insecurity in the National Assembly, where he broke down emotionally into tears as regards the collapsed security wall of this nation.

Our beloved country has become unwholesome for its citizens. We can no longer sleep with our two eyes, closed. Even in church, these days, we need to really "watch" while we "pray". The present situation of this country has given us another contextual interpretation of "watch and pray". Innocent lives are lost hourly. Kidnappers have their business den everywhere on our roads. We are no longer safe anywhere. Even police stations are no longer safe to be. This country is on fire!

When shall we feel safe? When shall we say the next door neighbour is a friend and could be sure of the safety of our lives and property in his hands? Gone are those days when we could hug our neighbours in love and look into his eyes to feel truly loved. We now dwell in the dens of lions seeking whom to devour every bit of time.

We cannot travel on our roads and be sure of safe trip. The north has never been safe to go, so also is the south. The west and the east are no longer safe to be. All the four poles of this country are now fear zones. We live with enemies within.

The three tribes are no longer on the same track. We can't but blame the Europeans who made us one in the first place. The creation of this country is highly questionable. We can no longer live as one. Our unity has become porous and division is looming - totally imminent.

Our problem is no longer inter tribal. Even those we term our tribes are now enemies of ourselves. The Yorùbás now hunt after the lives of the Yorùbás and the Hausas also kill the Hausas. How much more the Ibos? We are not anymore safe in the hut of our tribes, and can't even find refuge in that of other tribes. Where are we now safe?

The President has failed us. The Senate has failed us. The military have failed us. Our state governors have failed us. Religion has failed us. We should not talk about education - this has even failed us a long time ago. What is the essence of a nation that cannot observe and discharge its primary duty by protecting the lives and property of its citizens? This country should be shut down. The National Assembly should be closed down. The President should resign and a state of emergency be declared.

We need to put all hands on deck for this country to be better. Let's become the watchman of ourselves by watching one another's back. Our security personnel have failed us. The police and the military can't protect us anymore. We need to fight for our peace, now, before our nation becomes a tale of once upon a peaceful state.

W. B. Yeasts said in his poem, "The Second Coming", "Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."