I think it now time to relocate special police units to the north, its like there is work there for them......am.I making sense....everywhere now from katsina,Kaduna to Bornu...... abduction, kidnapping, killing etc

"And the relentless, daily killings are going on in all the northern states, while everyone thinks that power resides in the north today. It does not. Real power is seen in the level of living and social stability. The northern political elite would seem to have been diligently digging its own grave for quite some time now, but without knowing it. They have allowed a new breed of wild youths, not sufficiently socialised even in line with the ‘Ranka dede’ culture to acquiesce in want and deprivation, to become dominant. Drugs, poverty, motiveless criminality and rapacious daredevilry have chased all the northern big men to Abuja. But for how long will they be in exile? Is Abuja itself still safe? Are some high profile estates and exclusive neighbourhoods in Abuja not being quietly attacked these days?

Property rates have crashed beyond measure all over the north. Investors have fled. Local economies have collapsed. Re-desertification has taken over many places, as farmlands and animal husbandry are abandoned. Proceeds of crime have become the new means of livelihood for a new majority, who now pose a threat to the children and peace of mind of those who had the chance to make a difference but failed to do so. No one can see it clearly enough for now, but it is there. A mocking skull and demeaning emptiness! An unchartered malignancy that can best be described as a sickness unto death.

I listened with a mixture of dismay and consternation to a former, very highly respected, National Security Adviser at a stakeholders event he convened in Abuja on the herdsmen and kidnapping menace now plaguing the nation; and particularly North. He told us about his several meetings with kidnappers on various major routes and how they explained to him why nobody could ever come after them in the forest and hope to get out alive. He talked about the ready availability of AK47 rifles to every male as from the age of 14, the fact that kidnapping had become the quickest way of raising money to buy more cattle and improve their social status – since your pre-eminence is closely tied to the number of cows you owned. But the elders in the place were now worried that the younger elders no longer listened to them and were doing things they would not have contemplated themselves. Thus that even their free-band society was collapsing before their very eyes.

What really killed it for the retired soldier was when it was time for the afternoon prayers. Majority of these “Muslims” did not understand why he called for prayers. He also observed that many actually did not know how to pray. That was when a dreadful realisation hit him. The people he had come to see were ethnic Fulanis and lived the traditional nomadic life. But they did not understand the concept of kith and kin beyond their small hunting bands and immediate offsprings. He was horrified. Spread out before him were degenerate marauders who knew nothing about modern statehood, law and order etc.!

And it is in the midst of the foregoing that we are speaking of the abatement of the madness in the land? How? The late Abubakar Rimi would probably still be alive today if he had not encountered his ‘brothers’ on a lonely road in the dead of night. He spoke to them in Fulfulde. He even tried to reason with them about the wrongness of their “line of work”. Did they listen to him? Did they not still rob him? Was it not out of some inverted respect that they spared his life, after warning him to keep his preachment to himself as they were simply trying to “make a living” and feed their families?

The North is in trouble – and the rest of the nation with it. A region that has the highest allocation from oil revenue, the highest earnings from tax mostly paid by other regions, the highest earning from bunkering and the highest earnings from the illegal mining of gold and other natural resources, is ravaged by poverty, underdevelopment and a burgeoning population of unemployable youths. Is this right? Is this normal? Is anyone paying attention – as the North goes under?"

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/17/as-the-north-goes-under/?amp

Seconded and watch the rate those officers will rush to submit their resignation letter

North is in big trouble ....they know but they keep hiding it ...but for how long ?

mrvitalis:
North is in big trouble ....they know but they keep hiding it ...but for how long ?

For as long as they know the south is there to insulate them from their fuc/k up!

Separate the north from the south today and see them sit up immediately and start to address all these socio-economic and religious issues that's holding Nigeria down!

Xander85:


For as long as they know the south is there to insulate them from their fuc/k up!

Separate the north from the south today and see them sit up immediately and start to address all these socio-economic and religious issues that's holding Nigeria down!

The south west are whats keeping the south from uniting

Why are the south west fighting for their own country even though they would come out the best for the first few years if nigeria split

mrvitalis:

The south west are whats keeping the south from uniting

Why are the south west fighting for their own country even though they would come out the best for the first few years if nigeria split

Let this sink in, SW and other parts of Nigeria are not Siamese twins...
Since 1950s, there has never been any unity in the South. Even when Awolowo offered you the opportunity to be the Prime Minister while he would be a minister, you refused..
SE never voted Awo. Lagos once voted Azikwe.
SE never voted Abiola.
Let everybody bear their father's name
Stop blaming us for your inadequacies.
If you want to secede, tell your elected representatives to table it before parliament..

Stop accusing SW of your impotency.
SW takes decisions solely in her own interest, take yours solely for your own interest..
Stop mixing water with kerosene..