Don’t entertain any fears that I’m about to preach to you today; not at all! The pace of the beatings of the hearts of Nigerians has increased lately, inspired by fear owing to the alarming level of terror in the land. While unseen lurking dangers send shivers down the spine of mere men, the super mortals behind the iron walls of government houses run commentaries and perfect their art of lamentation each time purveyors of death strike.
I have no doubt hiding in any part of my mind that President Bola Tinubu has not been informed of the evils that have continued to befall the nation without ceasing. I’m very sure he is unaware that scores of pupils, including a two-year-old, and their teachers in the Ogbomoso area of Oyo State and dozens of young minds in kindergarten, primary and junior secondary schools in the Askira-Uba Local Government Area of the continually-troubled Borno State were carted away last week by the lunatics the nation has allowed to thrive for years. Do I need to remind the President that three people were cut down and over a dozen worshippers were abducted on Sunday in Kwara State for having the effrontery to go to church on Sunday?
If BAT had been informed early enough of the debilitating fear pervading the land, especially the relatively peaceful South-West, he would have prevailed on his party, the All Progressives Congress, to put on hold its ill-timed primaries while he urgently summons the executive, the National Assembly, the security agencies, the opposition parties, religious hierarchy and traditional leaders to an emergency summit to fashion out all-encompassing strategies to flush out deranged characters populating the landscape of the country but addressing themselves nicely as terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, killer herdsmen and other perennial criminals.
