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That's a terrible experience. May God protect us all.
Just a lil correction - Birnin Gwari is not in southern Kaduna, it is in the Kaduna Central senatorial zone. It's terrain makes it difficult to manage, because it is situated in a forest blet which connects to Niger, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto..It is this particular belt that is the hot-spot of banditry to this day. Before the advent of banditry, the roads to B/G have been notorious for armed robbery. Cattle rustling was prevalent, too. Their predicament has cut them off from development. No banks operate there. Civil servants reject postings there. Govt rarely run projects there, because no official wants to risk their life.
During the campaigns, BAT promised to tame the ugly trend. Now that he's at the helm, we await to see action.

SeeWahala:
It is it the same way we used social media to usher in the best choice of a president in out last general election but as usually the Nigerian dark factor superceded and turned all our hopes into dust

You complain too much? Emilokan online agbad0rians harass you into believing you're an ipob member

You go to engage tour senators and representatives too much? They jet out of their constituencies and retire to their various mansions in Abuja.

You want to protest? You'd get shot down

You talk too much? Icpc, Dss, efcc comes for you.

So brother, what other options do we have in our arsenal to use today?

Misconception about Agbadorians. Not all yorubas supported Tinubu to become the president. The vast number of them who did that are semi literates, and the intellects who have fail to reason logically. They allowed their emotion to shadowed their education. We had many people who voted for Obi. But to tell you the reality. Even if Obi is to be Jesus and win the previous or next election. He will still fail woefully. His efforts to perform will still be under average. Why it is our system. It's wired to keep us on perpetual failure. If we have made a contract with failure for a long period of time, how can we break the chain?




1) We can if we can enlighten the populace across all class with every available media end, especially video clips that has the duration of skits. We need to educate ourselves on this clause which says, "he who looks for equity must come with clean hands".



2). Teaching patriotism through the media.


3) demanding from our government, a ministry that would have the Data of every Nigerians



4) this is the most important move we need to take now. We have to called out every agency in the affair of National Identification Number(NIN) and those of BVN to come and explain to chosen I. T professionals, how the kidnappers have been evading arrest while still using registered Sim cards in our sovereignty.


If we can start with that. We will definitely hit the ground running.

Hmmmm, nawa

RisenObinna:
Answer the first one. It's for you.

Well, I just dropped my phone, looked around my vicinity and then realised that I'm not in a police station, on a debate, in a school or classroom

So I obviously am not compelled in any guise to answer any questions whatsoever

SeeWahala:
Have you heard of an apparatus called a helicopter 🚁

will you be floating your house in space also? Many people are abducted in the comfort of their home. Forget Security, you are not the president. A whole honorable in oyo state was shot years back getting down from his car in front of his house and presence of his securities. Let's brace up for action.

Interesting

AncientAlien:
Misconception about Agbadorians. Not all yorubas supported Tinubu to become the president. The vast number of them who did that are semi literates, and the intellects who have fail to reason logically. They allowed their emotion to shadowed their education. We had many people who voted for Obi. But to tell you the reality. Even if Obi is to be Jesus and win the previous or next election. He will still fail woefully. His efforts to perform will still be under average. Why it is our system. It's wired to keep us on perpetual failure. If we have made a contract with failure for a long period of time, how can we break the chain?

Concerning the first bolded above, yes I agree that not all yorubas voted in the disaster called emilokan that one I will gladly admit.

Then concerning the second bolded, how are you sure? I abhore people that claim someone cant do something based on sentiments. Why not give them a chance? Afterall tinubu claimed he was the master builder and he has gotten his chance to build like a master (even if hes failing woefully)

If a president cannot change the status quo then who are you to do so? Who am I to do so? That's why I still maintain that we vote in a leader who is capable to seeing white and not calling it black. Igbos naturally have a knack for sniffing out situations that will never yield fruit. If we had voted in Peter obi and he saw that Nigeria would never work under the structure of today he would have immediately pushed for either a restructuring or referendum to enable secession and that would have been the genesis of our individual prosperity as regional nations.

That above, is my opinion. All the other points you made are fabled scripts to keep the timid populace hopeful of an empty dream. Let's call a spade a spade bro, Nigeria on its current foundations is never going to work.

Period

jackie111:
What is the lasting solution to this insurgency, kidnapping ravaging our dear country?

The very first question we should be asking our government is what is the reason why NIN have refused to yield to its goal. Let them explain to our professional I. T gurus what they are doing with it. Maybe they need to learn more on digitalization or fire those handling the system.

Rich4god:
how.

they expose northerners to kidnapping business

muyico:
Niger Delta militant start all this!

how??Niger delta militants were not bloody as this bandits and herdsmen. The militants focused more on destroying oil facilities. They hardly destroyed villages or send their own people running

AncientAlien:
will you be floating your house in space also? Many people are abducted in the comfort of their home. Forget Security, you are not the president. A whole honorable in oyo state was shot years back getting down from his car in front of his house and presence of his securities. Let's brace up for action.

Oga, with the millions we are talking about, I will have a helipad on the roof of my house you know what a helipad is don't you?

So unless the kidnapper uses sniper or rocket launcher to hit me when I'm getting off my helicopter then I believe i will be relatively safer than most

ruggedtimi:
how??Niger delta militants were not bloody as this bandits and herdsmen. The militants focused more on destroying oil facilities. They hardly destroyed villages or send their own people running

but they do kidnap for ransoms?

PROUDIGBO:
Leave Igbo out of it! Let those who ‘won’ the uncivil war and who blame Ndigbo for all the woes of Nigeria….those who have controlled the political-economy since the late 60s….let them be the ones to lead the charge in changing Nigeria to the safe, secure, peaceful, united and economically viable country you all would like it to be! The moment Igbo get involved and the effort gets sabotaged from within by the usual suspects who want to protect their loot and criminally acquired privileges, some wouldn’t hesitate to heap all the blame on Ndigbo and add that to our list of ‘sins’!

Fact of the matter is, had the other ethnicities supported Mazi Kanu in confronting the ruling hegemonic establishment, Nigeria would have been better off for it today! But some can’t see or reason beyond their hatred for Ndigbo! They see Ndigbo as ‘conquered slaves’….’3rd class citizens’ who’re beneath them in the pecking order!

Some power-hungry bigots sold you all a dummy and made you lot believe a questionable character like Tinubu would take Nigeria to the promised El-Dorado!

We can do better than kanu's approach, Igboho's approach and Sowore's approach. We can win a war without firing a bullet or engaging in uncouth languages.

As far as the bandits limit their operation to the north, i don't care.
if not for lugard, wetin for concern me concern arewa republic?

SeeWahala:
Well, I just dropped my phone, looked around my vicinity and then realised that I'm not in a police station, on a debate, in a school or classroom

So I obviously am not compelled in any guise to answer any questions whatsoever

Na you Sabi...

PROUDIGBO:
Leave Igbo out of it!

You seem to have forgotten that the Igbos are also being kidnapped.
Forget who did what, it's time to take action.
Because if we keep blaming each other, we can never get anywhere.

AncientAlien:
Good moment to all fellow nairalanders and faithful Nigerian guests. I have an horrible adventure that worth sharing to you people, especially people from southern Nigeria, who had previously seen the perennial attacks in the north as business that remain there. Unfortunately, we have been kissing the reality now in almost all southern states of this beautiful country. If something is needed to be done at its threshold; it can never be better than now. Now here is the story.



After I was out of work and jobless at the end of year 2022, I summoned the courage to learn how to drive heavy duty vehicle (trailer driving). The courage and tenacity manifested through a thread I read here on nairaland written by antimason ( https://www.nairaland.com/6523549/ever-considered-learning-truck-driving ). I started work and touring every nook and cranny of the country. The part that attracted this write up is what I will strictly attend to.


On this same month in the beginning of year 2023.as usual and as the duty demand of us, we are expected to lift premium motor gasoline(petrol) from Lagos to Kano. Our logistic company gave us the amount of diesel( automotive gas oil) that can take us from Ibadan to Abuja taking the jebba to Abuja road. That road is a worse motorable road(at that time) that logistic trailers do take from Lagos to Abuja instead of Abuja kogi express way that consume more fuel. Cutting cost by the logistic firms you imagined. Now our own destination wasn't even Abuja, It's kano. It is when we reach Abuja that the new journey to kano began. The company is cutting cost, so we decided to cut cost too. How do we do that? We are going to deviate away from the jebba to Abuja road at the middle of the road. So, at mokwa, we checked into the adjoining road that leads to Birni Gwari. Trailers don't pass this road as it's the shortest route to north west states and kaduna and kano in particular. It doesn't require you to waste your fuel and time to Abuja anymore. But the road had many odds against it. May be that was the reason why it recorded low trailer usage compared to the long distance road of jebba straight to Abuja.


The odds. The road is the worst of all road for trailers to take as inter state route during raining season because of how degraded it was. I cant even explain what the experience will be during raining season because we that pass there during the harmattan of January didn't find the experience normal. It was a tug of war to drive pass that forbidden road. The passing trailers were scanty. It was at that moment in time we knew we were in for a big deal. Like 60 to 80 kilometers away from our deviation point(mokwa) and can't turn back. We keep our faith and kept moving. We reach a point that we drove an hour long without coming across a vehicle or one overtaking us.


Our journey later reach a point where we started meeting returning trailers once in a while. They were empty. They admonished us for taking load to pass the route. They said it could have been better if we are returning empty. Let me hint you! Each one of them didn't go without warning us about the insurgency going on from Birni Gwari to kaduna. Oh my God! What have I done to warrant this. We sweat inside. When we were coming closer to the infamous town, the retuning trailers(most of single container truck who were yoruba drivers as us) advice us of the best way to ply Birni Gwari to kaduna if we don't want to lose our lives(we where three.driver, me and another fellow motor boy) they instructed that when we reach towards the outpost of the town. We would find other trailers who had already parked and we should join them. Other coming trailers coming after us would join us there too, as it is not advisable to pass the road alone in the day time till down. Oh! How would I forget this experience



This is how it work for the Travellers and traders in Birni Gwari. Insurgency in southern kaduna had left almost all villages and little communities between infamous Birni Gwari and kaduna to go into extinction. The traders and travelers would have to wait at the outpost of Birni Gwari where a military base is miles away. Travellers parked at the side of the road. They will all wait til around 8:00 am in the morning of the next day. That time, military team are believed to be patrolling from another 'makeshift heavy military base' which is situated at a small town/big village in the sovereignty of kaduna state. They takes a routine patrol from that village to Birni Gwari, during that process, travellers who had slept over at that village too, will follow the military convoy of about 2 tanks and four military pick ups to Birni Gwari. The convoy of travellers following the convoy of the military can total up to 250 or 300(they are too many, I can't just arrive at a number) in this convoy are trailers( including dangote trailers) and commercial cars for traders and commuters, and also private car owners. They were always following the morning convoy of the soldiers. If you decided to pass the road Hours after their departure; On Your Own is your motto. There is always a team of soldiers with two tanks that firstly check on the road for safety purpose for the oncoming long motorcade of the military and travelers convoy. This is done to give signal to the military guarding the long convoy for any misadventure that might be on the way. It is the arrival of this convoy we are all expecting to follow back to that makeshift military base. The base in Birni Gwari is a standard brick barrack but its military presence and obligations have dwindled. You can count the total number of soldiers inside the barrack if you are allowed to get inside.
The heavy makeshift military base in the other village is haphazardly designed with tents with lot of military hardwares for combat. There is another one some meters after leaving Birni Gwari and its unutilized barack. It's a makeshift post also but light compared to the other side post.




Back to my adventure, when we entered Birni Gwari, the consigned inhabitants were communicating to us from under the roof covering their houses and shops. Even individuals on bike or the one walking on the road quietly passed us message. They were telling us to park when we reach front and sleep there till next day morning, when we will have to follow back military convoy to their heavy base. It was around 3 or 4:00pm. What was our idea was to cut cost and return home quickly. But here, we where, taking a compulsory recess, or else we would completely play with our own life if we refuse to park and rest.



We parked when we reached the infamous park. Vehicles there were not many at that time. The trailers we met were about 6 or seven. Truthfully; drivers had left that road for goodness sake. We look for a local canteen that sells our own yoruba indigenous foods. There we relate with the workers who are vast in both hausa and yoruba language. Although my boss understands hausa language a little bit. I and my colleague were the newbies. Our acquaintance told us more of what we needed to know about the environment and what we should be expecting on the road. They said many people had lost their lives on that same road. There were cases of the insurgents stopping vehicles and killing them all, or sometimes, abduct their victims. The road had become the shadow of itself that the villagers in the environment have refused to be taking goods to them in Birni Gwari market, which makes the available farm products in the town so cost. They said when we are following the military convoy tomorrow morning, we will see with our eyes, villages without number at the road side, which had been ransacked. Some are ruins from the result of villages set on fire. Our hearth breathed heavily and we felt sorry for the villagers.



The day we had been patiently expecting arrived. They told us that the convoy had arrived. We could see it with our own eyes too at around 9:00am when vehicles drove in with a little distance before one another. The army had stopped at the light post. The civil convoy following them had glide into the town. It remain us to go and meet them at the light post, so that we could follow them back to the heavy post.



The trailers that parked at where we slept were now more than ten. Cars of both private and commercial joined us with their goods and passengers. We all followed ourselves forming a convoy as well. We left the unutilized military base in our front. Droved few miles away from Birni Gwari before we reach the military light post. They had been waiting for us. Their motorcade started moving when they sighted us, and we follow them with prayer. As our acquaintance had said, so is everything. We saw deserted villages with no single inhabitant. Half fallen big huts here and there. Schools abandoned. Weed took over the fields. Bushes growing inside hurts that had lost roofs to fire. Everywhere were silent. What you can only see and hear are the birds flying in circles and chirping. Big mango trees lies useless beside the road. No one dare to come plucking.



I wasn't advantage to have a better camera phone with me then. I could have capture more than enough. On the journey, we reached some deserted villages that farmers came in groups to check dried trees for sale and cooking purposes. Some group of women went in groups to to pluck mangoes in abundance for sell. This place, your vehicle dare not have any fault. Because once the convoy left you. You are at your mercy. Don't even think of roadside mechanic or vulcanizer. They are nowhere to be found. Who dare open a barbing shop at the town of bald men when their lives is not even safe. Maybe a tow vehicle would have to help you tow it, following the convoy away from the zone into the city of kaduna. Despite these calamities. There are still few villages that had absorb the the runaway refugees to their own village. That makes such village big a little more. The last of all is when we reached the military heavy post. A very big village had been formed at a mile away from the military base. It's this village that absorbed almost all the refugees of the destroyed villages. It has become their asylum because of the presence of the heavy military base.



The total experience was an eyesore. People are living in this environment with the probability of insurgency striking them at any time. This is not the country we all wish to be proud of. If we are to have a better Nigeria. Then we should all come together to find the root of our problem and deal with it from that root. It's only then that we could rest and proud of our land. To the children abducted yesterday in ondo or ekiti state. May they all come back safely. It's not done through prayer alone. It requires action as the most important. Intellectual Evolution can start from anyone. You don't need to wait for no one.


Note: this write up is not edited.

This boy is IPOB. Just spoiling the name of Nigeria
Go back to your village

Very adventurous story, all i can say is Tilumgbu till 2097

No we are too tribalistic to effect any change. It must be our brother first before we talk about saving the country. We saw these things stare us directly in the face but we headed straight down into it. The truth is we are not ready for a change. In 2027 again we will vote our brother, afterall it is our turn. Economy is in shambles, security is dead, unemployment is the order of the day. Everyday things keep getting worse and we are still shouting “Our brother must be there”. Nigeria will be better when we vote right. Those guys don’t care about anyone. As long as they have soldiers and fortified mansions, they don’t care. If the country burns, they will jet out the very next minute, leaving we, the masses, to suffer.

May the country not collapse before we get serious

ruggedtimi:
how??Niger delta militants were not bloody as this bandits and herdsmen. The militants focused more on destroying oil facilities. They hardly destroyed villages or send their own people running

I believe you were still a kid then, sorry no insult.

Or likely you stay far from the south south.

They started by kidnapping expert rates, white men before moving to top black managers

Demanding for heavy ransom from the oil companies. If you are not influential in the oil industry you have no fars.

Average Nigerians were walking about freely unlike what we have today.

Today no one is spared.

Jeyun:
I believe you were still a kid then, sorry no insult.

Or likely you stay far from the south south.

They started by kidnapping expert rates, white men before moving to top black managers

Demanding for heavy ransom from the oil companies. If you are not influential in the oil industry you have no fars.

Average Nigerians were walking about freely unlike what we have today.

Today no one is spared.

you are sounding like someone that got all these informations from the media...did i say militants never kidnapped anyone?.....i lived around them and i have been caught in several cross fire involving militancy rivals/police. Militants knew their target but these bandits even a 5months old baby isnt safe.

U09ce:
That's a terrible experience. May God protect us all.
Just a lil correction - Birnin Gwari is not in southern Kaduna, it is in the Kaduna Central senatorial zone. It's terrain makes it difficult to manage, because it is situated in a forest blet which connects to Niger, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto..It is this particular belt that is the hot-spot of banditry to this day. Before the advent of banditry, the roads to B/G have been notorious for armed robbery. Cattle rustling was prevalent, too. Their predicament has cut them off from development. No banks operate there. Civil servants reject postings there. Govt rarely run projects there, because no official wants to risk their life.
During the campaigns, BAT promised to tame the ugly trend. Now that he's at the helm, we await to see action.

Personally I've not followed that birnin gwari road but do follow minna-sarkin pawa-kaduna over a decade ago . It's forested, mountains and prone to criminal activities. Nigeria don cast

AncientAlien:
Good moment to all fellow nairalanders and faithful Nigerian guests. I have an horrible adventure that worth sharing to you people, especially people from southern Nigeria, who had previously seen the perennial attacks in the north as business that remain there. Unfortunately, we have been kissing the reality now in almost all southern states of this beautiful country. If something is needed to be done at its threshold; it can never be better than now. Now here is the story.



After I was out of work and jobless at the end of year 2022, I summoned the courage to learn how to drive heavy duty vehicle (trailer driving). The courage and tenacity manifested through a thread I read here on nairaland written by antimason ( https://www.nairaland.com/6523549/ever-considered-learning-truck-driving ). I started work and touring every nook and cranny of the country. The part that attracted this write up is what I will strictly attend to.


On this same month in the beginning of year 2023.as usual and as the duty demand of us, we are expected to lift premium motor gasoline(petrol) from Lagos to Kano. Our logistic company gave us the amount of diesel( automotive gas oil) that can take us from Ibadan to Abuja taking the jebba to Abuja road. That road is a worse motorable road(at that time) that logistic trailers do take from Lagos to Abuja instead of Abuja kogi express way that consume more fuel. Cutting cost by the logistic firms you imagined. Now our own destination wasn't even Abuja, It's kano. It is when we reach Abuja that the new journey to kano began. The company is cutting cost, so we decided to cut cost too. How do we do that? We are going to deviate away from the jebba to Abuja road at the middle of the road. So, at mokwa, we checked into the adjoining road that leads to Birni Gwari. Trailers don't pass this road as it's the shortest route to north west states and kaduna and kano in particular. It doesn't require you to waste your fuel and time to Abuja anymore. But the road had many odds against it. May be that was the reason why it recorded low trailer usage compared to the long distance road of jebba straight to Abuja.


The odds. The road is the worst of all road for trailers to take as inter state route during raining season because of how degraded it was. I cant even explain what the experience will be during raining season because we that pass there during the harmattan of January didn't find the experience normal. It was a tug of war to drive pass that forbidden road. The passing trailers were scanty. It was at that moment in time we knew we were in for a big deal. Like 60 to 80 kilometers away from our deviation point(mokwa) and can't turn back. We keep our faith and kept moving. We reach a point that we drove an hour long without coming across a vehicle or one overtaking us.


Our journey later reach a point where we started meeting returning trailers once in a while. They were empty. They admonished us for taking load to pass the route. They said it could have been better if we are returning empty. Let me hint you! Each one of them didn't go without warning us about the insurgency going on from Birni Gwari to kaduna. Oh my God! What have I done to warrant this. We sweat inside. When we were coming closer to the infamous town, the retuning trailers(most of single container truck who were yoruba drivers as us) advice us of the best way to ply Birni Gwari to kaduna if we don't want to lose our lives(we where three.driver, me and another fellow motor boy) they instructed that when we reach towards the outpost of the town. We would find other trailers who had already parked and we should join them. Other coming trailers coming after us would join us there too, as it is not advisable to pass the road alone in the day time till down. Oh! How would I forget this experience



This is how it work for the Travellers and traders in Birni Gwari. Insurgency in southern kaduna had left almost all villages and little communities between infamous Birni Gwari and kaduna to go into extinction. The traders and travelers would have to wait at the outpost of Birni Gwari where a military base is miles away. Travellers parked at the side of the road. They will all wait til around 8:00 am in the morning of the next day. That time, military team are believed to be patrolling from another 'makeshift heavy military base' which is situated at a small town/big village in the sovereignty of kaduna state. They takes a routine patrol from that village to Birni Gwari, during that process, travellers who had slept over at that village too, will follow the military convoy of about 2 tanks and four military pick ups to Birni Gwari. The convoy of travellers following the convoy of the military can total up to 250 or 300(they are too many, I can't just arrive at a number) in this convoy are trailers( including dangote trailers) and commercial cars for traders and commuters, and also private car owners. They were always following the morning convoy of the soldiers. If you decided to pass the road Hours after their departure; On Your Own is your motto. There is always a team of soldiers with two tanks that firstly check on the road for safety purpose for the oncoming long motorcade of the military and travelers convoy. This is done to give signal to the military guarding the long convoy for any misadventure that might be on the way. It is the arrival of this convoy we are all expecting to follow back to that makeshift military base. The base in Birni Gwari is a standard brick barrack but its military presence and obligations have dwindled. You can count the total number of soldiers inside the barrack if you are allowed to get inside.
The heavy makeshift military base in the other village is haphazardly designed with tents with lot of military hardwares for combat. There is another one some meters after leaving Birni Gwari and its unutilized barack. It's a makeshift post also but light compared to the other side post.




Back to my adventure, when we entered Birni Gwari, the consigned inhabitants were communicating to us from under the roof covering their houses and shops. Even individuals on bike or the one walking on the road quietly passed us message. They were telling us to park when we reach front and sleep there till next day morning, when we will have to follow back military convoy to their heavy base. It was around 3 or 4:00pm. What was our idea was to cut cost and return home quickly. But here, we where, taking a compulsory recess, or else we would completely play with our own life if we refuse to park and rest.



We parked when we reached the infamous park. Vehicles there were not many at that time. The trailers we met were about 6 or seven. Truthfully; drivers had left that road for goodness sake. We look for a local canteen that sells our own yoruba indigenous foods. There we relate with the workers who are vast in both hausa and yoruba language. Although my boss understands hausa language a little bit. I and my colleague were the newbies. Our acquaintance told us more of what we needed to know about the environment and what we should be expecting on the road. They said many people had lost their lives on that same road. There were cases of the insurgents stopping vehicles and killing them all, or sometimes, abduct their victims. The road had become the shadow of itself that the villagers in the environment have refused to be taking goods to them in Birni Gwari market, which makes the available farm products in the town so cost. They said when we are following the military convoy tomorrow morning, we will see with our eyes, villages without number at the road side, which had been ransacked. Some are ruins from the result of villages set on fire. Our hearth breathed heavily and we felt sorry for the villagers.



The day we had been patiently expecting arrived. They told us that the convoy had arrived. We could see it with our own eyes too at around 9:00am when vehicles drove in with a little distance before one another. The army had stopped at the light post. The civil convoy following them had glide into the town. It remain us to go and meet them at the light post, so that we could follow them back to the heavy post.



The trailers that parked at where we slept were now more than ten. Cars of both private and commercial joined us with their goods and passengers. We all followed ourselves forming a convoy as well. We left the unutilized military base in our front. Droved few miles away from Birni Gwari before we reach the military light post. They had been waiting for us. Their motorcade started moving when they sighted us, and we follow them with prayer. As our acquaintance had said, so is everything. We saw deserted villages with no single inhabitant. Half fallen big huts here and there. Schools abandoned. Weed took over the fields. Bushes growing inside hurts that had lost roofs to fire. Everywhere were silent. What you can only see and hear are the birds flying in circles and chirping. Big mango trees lies useless beside the road. No one dare to come plucking.



I wasn't advantage to have a better camera phone with me then. I could have capture more than enough. On the journey, we reached some deserted villages that farmers came in groups to check dried trees for sale and cooking purposes. Some group of women went in groups to to pluck mangoes in abundance for sell. This place, your vehicle dare not have any fault. Because once the convoy left you. You are at your mercy. Don't even think of roadside mechanic or vulcanizer. They are nowhere to be found. Who dare open a barbing shop at the town of bald men when their lives is not even safe. Maybe a tow vehicle would have to help you tow it, following the convoy away from the zone into the city of kaduna. Despite these calamities. There are still few villages that had absorb the the runaway refugees to their own village. That makes such village big a little more. The last of all is when we reached the military heavy post. A very big village had been formed at a mile away from the military base. It's this village that absorbed almost all the refugees of the destroyed villages. It has become their asylum because of the presence of the heavy military base.



The total experience was an eyesore. People are living in this environment with the probability of insurgency striking them at any time. This is not the country we all wish to be proud of. If we are to have a better Nigeria. Then we should all come together to find the root of our problem and deal with it from that root. It's only then that we could rest and proud of our land. To the children abducted yesterday in ondo or ekiti state. May they all come back safely. It's not done through prayer alone. It requires action as the most important. Intellectual Evolution can start from anyone. You don't need to wait for no one.


Note: this write up is not edited.

God no go shame us. God bless your hustle, I see you bro 💯. Bless up 🙏

MADIFF:
The north started this because of power that's why you will never see their religious leader or cleric condemn it.

The insecurity in the East and West, is it the North that causes it?

Rich4god:
I have seen bandits in vast numbers drive past the village we went for financial inclusion. That day, I said to myself, there is an agenda in Nigeria. But too bad, the south are forming too woke to get the memo.

Now, let me ask a question that have been bordering me.

Birnin gwari is a village in Kaduna.

It has a border with Niger state and Abuja or maybe with Kogi also.(not too sure).

Birnin gwari doesnt have border with another country but with states in Nigeria.

Since 2017 people have been talk about birnin gwari been the HQ of bandits activities.

My question now is... How come all these years have passed by and our secuirty personnel combined have not engage in a special mission to clear brinin gwari from the holds of bandits.


This country is gone. Cos no sane country will condone sonmething like this.

Birnin Gwari shares boundaries with Niger and Zamfara. The Town also have large deposit of Gold.

PROUDIGBO:
Leave Igbo out of it! Let those who ‘won’ the uncivil war and who blame Ndigbo for all the woes of Nigeria….those who have controlled the political-economy since the late 60s….let them be the ones to lead the charge in changing Nigeria to the safe, secure, peaceful, united and economically viable country you all would like it to be! The moment Igbo get involved and the effort gets sabotaged from within by the usual suspects who want to protect their loot and criminally acquired privileges, some wouldn’t hesitate to heap all the blame on Ndigbo and add that to our list of ‘sins’!

Fact of the matter is, had the other ethnicities supported Mazi Kanu in confronting the ruling hegemonic establishment, Nigeria would have been better off for it today! But some can’t see or reason beyond their hatred for Ndigbo! They see Ndigbo as ‘conquered slaves’….’3rd class citizens’ who’re beneath them in the pecking order!

Some power-hungry bigots sold you all a dummy and made you lot believe a questionable character like Tinubu would take Nigeria to the promised El-Dorado!

The mention of Nnamdi Kanu invalidated everything you have written there. Kanu has killed more Igbo people than Fulani terrorists.

Reminds me of the road I plied last week Friday. I attended the burial ceremony of the mother of Hon Chukwuma Ekwueme in Adaba, Uzo Uwani LGA. This is the scariest road I have ever plied in my life. Imagine travelling through a thick Bush for about 30km without meeting anybody on the road, nobody overtakes you while travelling through this road. So many things crossed my mind. What if my car spoil along this bush? Wetin I go do if I meet "these people"? Wetin I go do if my tyre gets ruptured?

Immediately I came back from the burial, I checked nairaland. The first news I saw saw that bandits killed 4 people in Ogurugu, another town in Uzo Uwani.

@OP, the greatest threat to peace in Africa and indeed the world is Islam. It breeds illiteracy, violence and disease. There should be a partition of Nigeria between Islamic region and Secular region. I am tired of this current nonsense. And I want warn that this problem may never end.

EmeeNaka:
The mention of Nnamdi Kanu invalidated everything you have written there. Kanu has killed more Igbo people than Fulani terrorists.

You waffle on and on without saying anything! Who are the Igbo people Mazi Kanu killed….and when/where did he kill them!?

The only reason you intensely hate and fear Mazi Kanu is because you see him as a threat to the continued existence of your ‘ATM and inheritance’ that is ‘one Nigeria’!