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• Feeding fat on the plights and sufferings of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
• How insurgents were emboldened and the war against them unduly prolonged.
• A nearly obliterated voice of the opposition.

Feeding fat on the plights and sufferings of the IDPs
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Elections were a couple of months away. The two leading political parties, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) were going for each other's jugular. This was at the time when the overly tensed nature of the polity portends all but anything wholesome.
Informed and uninformed political theories and philosophies swarmed public and social discourse in a manner nearly unprecedented in Nigeria's political annals. One theory worthy of note had it that insurgents in the North-east were sponsored by influencers within the ranks of the APC in a sinister move to garner a sympathizing followership and discredit incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

At that material time, all of that stood for nothing but mere speculations. More than a year has now passed, we are gradually emanating from that wilderness. We now know more than we did back then.
Pillaging and marauding Boko haram insurgents held sway for substantial lengths of time. The aftereffect of that carnage subsists, with widespread starvation and disease in various IDP camps across the country.

Elkanemi football club of Maiduguri resumed playing on their home pitch just this year, and sallah was celebrated amidst palpable calm and peace that approximated an illusion in the near past. Although, incidences of suicide bombings still spring up occasionally, normalcy is gradually finding its way back to life in the region.

In a few paragraphs hereunder, I intend to share with you fragments of my ruminations on the matter of how money meant for arms procurement to keep insurgents at bay was diverted by opportunists under the nose of former president Goodluck Jonathan.

Until such time, a cursory glance at the elusiveness of a principled life for people in leadership position and the ordering of their affairs around some moral compass is worth some space here. I followed with keen interest the devastating consequences of want and deprivation to the very fabric of a man's system in its totality.
Read more...................[url][/url]http://influence.com.ng/2016/07/19/government-and-citizens-fuelling-the-fire-of-war-starvation-and-crime/
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See the eyes of that small boy like person we don shayo!