₦airaland Forum

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has described as a national shame the terrorists’ attack on Niger community that claimed the lives of 30 people and several others abducted.

In a post on his verified X handle on Sunday, Obi said it is time to end this cycle of violence and insecurity in the country.

According to him, what Nigerians urgently need is an all-hands-on-deck approach; a coordinated, capable, and decisive effort to end the menace of insecurity that has become a daily occurrence.

“It is deeply worrisome and unacceptable that, as we usher in a new year, the cycle of senseless killings and insecurity continues unchecked across our nation.

Today, in Niger State, we once again witnessed the horrific loss of over 40 lives in a brutal terrorist attack at the Kasuwan-Daji Market in the Domo community of Borgu Local Government Area.

“Just yesterday, armed bandits struck Bong village in Doemak District of Plateau State, leaving multiple people dead. Two days ago, several communities in Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State were attacked by bandits. On New Year’s Day in Katsina State, the Unguwar Naino community was also attacked, with several lives lost and many others injured.

“These incidents form part of a disturbing and tragic pattern of violence that has sadly become normalized. The repeated failure to provide basic security for citizens is a national shame, and the toll it takes on families and communities is immeasurable.

As a nation, we cannot continue to normalize these killings. The protection of lives must remain the foremost responsibility of government.

“To the families who have lost loved ones in Niger, Plateau, Kano, Katsina, and other affected communities this New Year, no words can truly ease your pain. Know, however, that the nation mourns with you.

May you find strength, comfort, and resilience in this time of unimaginable grief. This cycle of violence must be stopped,” he wrote.

Richtaiwo:
Quite predictably, he has arrived, right on cue, as if responding to a calendar alert titled Selective Outrage. Disasters have come and gone in the East, reports piling up like unread emails, yet not a single blink of concern. Last week, he graciously visited Enugu, not to engage, not to empathize, but apparently to change outfits and exit stage left.

It seems compassion, in this case, is a strictly external affair, it begins outside his compound and ends wherever the cameras stop rolling. What happens back home? Utterly irrelevant. One can only conclude that his brand of charity is strictly ceremonial, pressed, polished, and completely allergic to responsibility.

BIZNess123:
Always looking for attention.

He will soon be defeated by atiku.. in the primary...
Someone that finished distant third...he was flogged like a child by tinubu...

Richtaiwo:
Quite predictably, he has arrived, right on cue, as if responding to a calendar alert titled Selective Outrage. Disasters have come and gone in the East, reports piling up like unread emails, yet not a single blink of concern. Last week, he graciously visited Enugu, not to engage, not to empathize, but apparently to change outfits and exit stage left.

It seems compassion, in this case, is a strictly external affair, it begins outside his compound and ends wherever the cameras stop rolling. What happens back home? Utterly irrelevant. One can only conclude that his brand of charity is strictly ceremonial, pressed, polished, and completely allergic to responsibility.

jmoore:
Home?
Nigeria is home!!!

You Tinubu boys should stop dividing Nigeria.

Babablu Bulabu.

Where's Tinubu sef? Em don disappear again to France. Started the new year flying out of the country to Europe.

garykoeman:
As if awkuzu river kill-ing did not happen during his tenure in Anambra.

All of una Nigeria politician are ole and hypo-crite.

Richtaiwo:
Quite predictably, he has arrived, right on cue, as if responding to a calendar alert titled Selective Outrage. Disasters have come and gone in the East, reports piling up like unread emails, yet not a single blink of concern. Last week, he graciously visited Enugu, not to engage, not to empathize, but apparently to change outfits and exit stage left.

It seems compassion, in this case, is a strictly external affair, it begins outside his compound and ends wherever the cameras stop rolling. What happens back home? Utterly irrelevant. One can only conclude that his brand of charity is strictly ceremonial, pressed, polished, and completely allergic to responsibility.

BIZNess123:
Always looking for attention.

He will soon be defeated by atiku.. in the primary...
Someone that finished distant third...he was flogged like a child by tinubu...

magoo10:
If you check well tribalism and nepotism might just be one of the biggest problems to this insecurity issue.
Putting the best people not minding where they come from rather than your tribes men in some key positions might have solved more than 70% of the security problems we are facing today .

EdiskyHarry:
Buhari was the worst president in the history of Africa, but without sentiment, buhari was 100 million times better than what we have now as president.

SeeWahala:
This fabled merit system ish will never work in Nigeria again they will say you want to dominate them 😏

Saying things like "the implementation of 'quota system' both in recruitment, hiring, appointments and even kids school leaving exams is what makes the world go round"

Check all these people supporting APC today, most of them are quota system benefactors in one way or the other nothing like MERIT in their dictionary

magoo10:
yet they are pretending running around looking for solutions to the present problems .is this not the height of deceit and hypocrisy