WHEN THE RABID DOG IS DONE EATING THE VICTIM, IT TURNS ON ITS OWNERS.

Back then when hitler started out on the Jews, most antisemitic folks were like "at last, someone has finally come up to deal with this overbearing Jewish guys that are taking over the place, I dont know or care about the Hitler guy, but I think someone needs to teach this Jewish guys some lessons.

Back in 2007-2012, when boko haram was still at infancy, churches and Christians were mostly the targets of their attacks, some northerners then were apologetic to the Boko haram people, like Germans, most were grateful that some core adherents to their faith were coming out to weed out some Christian folks that were almost spreading like wild fire in the north, the Christian government of the day, then tried to use force, but the northern elders and Muslim bodies, decried the systematic attempt of the government to attack its people, and they used their homes and towns to shield the members they could, and gave them Intel to attack and escape the government, which back then was the enemy.

Now Down South here, not up to a month and some days ago, the Nigerian Police Force was the public enemy, number 1, for obvious reasons, iPhone no be gun, but dem popo go dey hold am like exhibit, to be fresh be say u be yahoo boy, and those magas go get mind dey tell us 'i will kill you and nothing will happen "
Abeg make SARS end, make swat end, make police even end too" we cried, and we drummed support for the mobs that pounced on some scape goat policemen, we share videos of Police station in Edo state getting looted and we laughed and made fun of the guy wearing DPO's uniform, we felt that the Criminals in prisons didn't commit crimes, or at least most didn't, and we stayed back and watched criminals breaking out of prisons and escaping, our hatred for the Police force and the system was so much that we were happy at the chaos that was taking form.

But truth is, time always clears our doubts, most Germans were comfortable with Hitler turning on Jews, it was only a matter of time, before he turned on everything else.
The Northern Hegemony were complicit in feeding and hiding boko haram at its infancy when Christians were the immediate target, when the ability to speak Hausa or recite Quran could shield you from attack, however fast forward to 2020, two days ago, farmers in the north, all of whom were northerners, all of whom could speak Hausa fluently, all of whom were Muslims, all of whom could pray and recite the Quran fluently, were all surrounded and gruesomely murdered, their hands tied behind their back as they were all beheaded in cold blood, with one out of the almost 60beheaded farmers having his praying beads wrapped around his severed head.

Down south, in Uyo here thieves now operate in broad daylight, close to me, a supermarket and a filling station got robbed in the afternoon by thieves in tricycles. In Edo state where Criminals were broken out from prison, its much more worst, no where is safe, whether you are in your house, in a hotel room, in the police station, on the road, both the night and day, are dreadful moments, human corpses now compete with pure water sachets on street littering... Full busses are no longer being just robbed, everyone there gets kidnapped as well, after robbing you of everything on you, they steal you as well and in turn steal from your family and loved ones, both their joy, peace of mind and the ransoms they pay.

Lets always learn to see beyond our nose, beyond our immediate gratification, that way, we wont be too swept up with greed, envy, fear, or hate, to stand by and watch a wave, that will always come back to sweep us and our loved ones, lets learn to think dispassionately about the immediate and long term repercussions of our actions, and where the long term harm will seem go eclipse the immediate gain, as the birth of Hitler seemed greater than the antisemitism, as the daily massacre of northerners today far eclipse their immediate gratifications at seeing the spread of Christianity halted, same way the chaos and insecurity in states like Edo far eclipse the satisfaction of watching the police suffer for their brutality against us.

Most especially we need to learn to tolerate the thinkers among us, who are always there to see into the future, to urge us to think deeply about things, and not see them as the enemy of the people or those siding with our oppressors. Sometimes they are all the barriers shielding us from going full self destruct.

Benesis© 29/11/2020

If our we will always act without our emotions, that we will be able to see beyond our noses.