This is queer. Nigeria streams into this forefront for the wrong reason. Its wrongness can’t be denied or ignored. We’re topping the list for the absurd. Our leaders beat their wild, fleshy chests for the odd and the bizarre. And their praise singers do their sing-song with eerie deftness.
We are, perhaps, the fastest country leaping into retrogression. Speedily racing back into the dark. That primitive Stone Age. That’s the monumental tragedy violently dropped on our fragile laps.
Since late President Muhammadu Buhari crashed us brutally with deep intensity. From-top-bottom. We’ve been sinking further like never before. There has been no stopping us. Our plight remains unchecked and uncontrolled. Our experience has been extreme ups and downs.
What are we talking about here? Terrorists are upping their terror by the day. The game is changing fast. They are flying a new template in Ekiti. Of all states! What informed their choice of state is baffling and confusing. You may choose to wonder, even to high heavens.
They’re fuelling a weird form of terrorism. Their own odd brand of diversification. It’s straight from the bottomless pit of hell. If we are careless enough to oblige them a luxurious smooth ride. We will be violently thrown back to the lawless dark age. We’re stuck for life!
This is the new face of terror. Help! It’s rearing its ugly head in Ekiti State! It’s not near anything palatable. This piece of information tells it all. Largely unedited. As in such a case. The writer remains behind the mask. Notwithstanding, taste its excerpts. I also did:
“What is happening in this country is beyond heart breaking it is pure evil. In Ajoni LCDA of Ekiti State, kidnappers reportedly demanded ransom just to release the corpse of a victim they allegedly raped to death. As if that was not wicked enough, the four men who went to deliver the ransom including cash, ice, beers and other requested items were themselves kidnapped.
“Now, the criminals are allegedly demanding more money and even female virgins in exchange for releasing the new captives. Let that sink in. This is no longer just kidnapping. This is barbarity. This is moral collapse. This is organised cruelty operating without fear.
“Demanding ransom for a corpse shows how low these criminals have sunk. Kidnapping those who came to negotiate shows total lawlessness. Demanding female virgins is inhuman and demonic.
“Where is the deterrence? Where is the intelligence gathering? Where is the overwhelming security response?
“Ekiti has traditionally been seen as relatively calm compared to other regions. If this level of terror is taking root there, then nowhere is safe. This cannot be treated as just another headline.
“When criminals begin to dictate terms like this, the state must respond with decisive force. If not, law-abiding citizens will continue to live in fear. Nigeria cannot normalise this level of wickedness.”
It’s exactly the pattern Boko Haram is familiar with. The same attitude they barged into us rudely. Awkwardly interrupted our lives and lifestyle. With times and seasons. It became a frightful monster. Unto our tenuous, vulnerable hands.
That same storm is wearing a new toga, ravaging. And Ekiti is in its red eyes. These beasts are ever at work. No rest, reprieve for the swine. The brutes are restive and restless. The barbarians are getting hungrier and thirstier. To shed more blood in whatever form. They have a vision. An evil mission to accomplish.
It usually starts this manner. The trend is the same. It surfaces almost unnoticed and intentionally disregarded. That smoke emitting out of Ekiti State is disgusting, disheartening enough. A state traditionally considered calmed and cool. Digging deep into a smog of ruin.
That is what has sneaked into the state, upturned its peace. And changing the optics of the “Land of Honour.” As we know it. For the worse and terrible. Great pity! This mustn’t be knowingly walked over. It must be consciously catechised.
Why is this news item still crawling? Grossly under-reported. It is not making waves. It opts to be dormant and laid-back. Its kind would have gone ferociously viral. Attracting unrestrained chaos to our already choked up space.
The fiends have tasted it. The virgin they raped to death was “sweet and delectable.” Their long throats are yawning for more of the absurdity. The demon in them would want it to continue unabated. The reason they demanded virgins as ransom.
Before they make good their threat. We must act immediately now. And beat them to their despicable game. They should not be permitted to dictate the tunes. Let’s “change” it for them fast. No room for negotiation. No space for parley. It’s a serious business of survival.
The only language they understand and listen is violence. And sure, they don’t have the monopoly of that. This is doable. Only if our leaders have the sincere will with genuine intention.
You can’t build meaningfully on emptiness except nothingness. Government should be open. And broad in its perception. They should involve all stakeholders in this fight. It is for our collective existence. It is a do-or-die affair. Not politics.
The South West states including Kwara and Kogi need to brace up. These swine are up in arms to give us more bloody noses. We need to deploy our God-given native intelligence. God endowed us with that in surplus abundance. We have the ilk of Aare Gani Adams and Sunday Igboho in our midst. In more than sufficient supply.
The duo has severally in separate spaces. Offered their services on gold platter. Igboho threw his open, loud and clear: “I’m ready to enter the forest with my boys.” He did that wonderfully before. It was to our greatest delight, admiration and satisfaction.
He vowed even to do more. He and his men are ever ready. To “enter forests across Yorubaland to flush out bandits and terrorists.” But with this strong caveat. They need official approval and support from the Federal Government to act. This is what Buhari and his junta denied him. Almost at the cost of his life. Igboho learnt his lesson.
Ordinarily. We need to have long gone past this rung. Our level shouldn’t have been this low anymore. We should have moved many kilometres far away. This ought not to have happened.
But it’s happening. And this is not the season to be complacent. We are slacking, careless. This is reason we’re taking it in its stride. Sad and wrong!
It shouldn’t be so. This bizarre situation should jerk us back to normalcy. It should prick our mortar conscience. If we still pretend to have one, anyway.
We carelessly allowed it to creep into our space quietly. And maintained its unholy silence ever since. That has been its manner. It’s adhering strictly to its deadly terror template. Pray, it will not suddenly surge into a monster.
So? Whatever magnitude of achievements government may forcefully attribute to itself. That singular index, insecurity, has collapsed everything into oblivion, nullity and outright blankness!
These beasts of no gender mustn’t fester. They shouldn’t be permitted to breathe. They don’t deserve to live. Neither do they merit it. They are demonic in mode and operation. Let’s close in on them. And carry the fight to their enclave in Ajoni forests.
This terror must come to an end. Its manifestations must come to a sudden close. May it be halted faster than imagined!
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