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As terrorists continue to attack communities across Nigeria, many youths of communities are beginning to take the bull by the horns to defend themselves because they no longer have hope on the government.

While nobody can blame people for wanting to stay alive, this trend could create a bigger security problem for Nigeria in the future.

The more communities arm themselves, the more weapons will spread across the country. The government may eventually defeat the terrorists, but how will it recover thousands of weapons already in circulation?

Some of these weapons could end up with kidnappers, armed robbers, political thugs, cult groups, and other criminals. Community defense groups formed today could also become rival armed groups tomorrow.

History has shown that it is much easier to stop insecurity from growing than to disarm people after they have acquired weapons and learned to depend on them for protection.

If government does not decisively tackle terrorism now, Nigeria may eventually face two problems instead of one: terrorists on one hand and widespread arms proliferation on the other.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Does the OP prefer that the people remain unarmed and helpless as they are getting wiped off the face of the Earth. The irony of all this is that the people terrorizing Nigerians with kidnapping and death for their gains now were also terrorizing Nigerians since 1500 year ago with death , kidnapping and slavery during the era of the trans-saharan slave trade. They are devoid of humanity and will continue to pick off others as long as it is profitable. The only way to arrest these evil people is the ability to fight back bestowed with the possession of arms.
In conclusion, If every Nigerian is armed, armed criminality will cease to exist.

Very true. But what exactly are your law enforcement agencies doing to allow self-defense to yield negative results? Are they not suppose to be helping?

Do Nigerians have to do everything for themselves?🤷🏾‍♀️

Weapons are only dangerous IN BAD HANDS, not GOOD HANDS.🙌

The supreme military Council came up with firing squad after the biafran war because of armed robbery.

1Alex:
As terrorists continue to attack communities across Nigeria, many youths of communities are beginning to take the bull by the horns to defend themselves because they no longer have hope on the government.

While nobody can blame people for wanting to stay alive, this trend could create a bigger security problem for Nigeria in the future.

The more communities arm themselves, the more weapons will spread across the country. The government may eventually defeat the terrorists, but how will it recover thousands of weapons already in circulation?

Some of these weapons could end up with kidnappers, armed robbers, political thugs, cult groups, and other criminals. Community defense groups formed today could also become rival armed groups tomorrow.

History has shown that it is much easier to stop insecurity from growing than to disarm people after they have acquired weapons and learned to depend on them for protection.

If government does not decisively tackle terrorism now, Nigeria may eventually face two problems instead of one: terrorists on one hand and widespread arms proliferation on the other.

A stitch in time saves nine.

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The issue of terrorism is a broader problem in West African States and Central Africa 🤷‍♂️.

There are more guns in the hands of civilians in the USA than most countries armies.

The government should put laws in place that allow legal gun ownerships.

The advantages of legal gun ownership far outweigh the disadvantages. (In the context of today’s Nigeria).

Gotocourt:
The issue of terrorism is a broader problem in West African States and Central Africa 🤷‍♂️.

Which west Africa? Tell me how many faction of terrorists dey Ghana?

Here we go again! But it's true, I have seen it happened before.

I think you are not far from the truth


But let me read the post first

zeuss:
Does the OP prefer that the people remain unarmed and helpless as they are getting wiped off the face of the Earth. The irony of all this is that the people terrorizing Nigerians with kidnapping and death for their gains now were also terrorizing Nigerians 300 year ago with death and kidnapping and slavery during the era of the trans-saharan slave trade. They are devoid of humanity and will continue to pick off others as long as it is profitable. The only way to arrest these evil people is the ability to fight back bestowed with the possession of arms.
In conclusion, If every Nigerian is armed, armed criminality will cease to exist.

If every Nigerian is armed you are in more danger from the wife that suspects you are cheating, your greedy workers, your jealous friend, your drug-addict neighbor or someone who just hate you for no reason. Reasons like this is what Americans kill for. We don't need proliferation of guns in the country. Like OP said, let the government be more proactive against bandits, kidnappers and terrorism so the need for self-defense is less.

No worry mk bandit hold you, you go understand why you need protect yourself, na person wey never experience the cruelty of bandit or wey e never reach their community dey yarn dis kind thing.. just pray you don't experience it because if you survive am na assault riffle you go find.

Modakeke and ife crisis comes to mind, after the crisis, there was a lot of robbery. Youths that were cooked with charms and equipped with arms turned out to be terrors.

This good suggestion of yours is a threat to second term of important personalities.

Sheuns:
There are more guns in the hands of civilians in the USA than most countries armies.
The government should put laws in place that allow legal gun ownerships.
The advantages of legal gun ownership far outweigh the disadvantages. (In the context of today’s Nigeria).

Correct man, once these terrorists realize that communities are armed, they will find another job. Farmers should also carry AK 47, if a herdsman do anyhow, he will see anyhow.

Not that it could but more like it 'has' and it 'would'.

You are talking in future tense of something that has already happened.

Lakurawa was formed in the early days as a vigilante group to protect Fulani Herders from thieves and cattle rustlers. They were so effective that they themselves started terrorizing the communities that they suspected were harboring these criminals.

Before long they moved into kidnapping and after a while they expenaded from Sokoto and Kebbi to other states.

THis is what happens when Govt fails in its responsibilities.
But people are left with no option than to protect themselves.

Another example is the xenophobic attacks in SA, as bad as it is, the root is still a failure of Govt to protect it's citizens to the point where the people believe that they have to stand up for themselves.

But experience as a shown that vigilantism and jungle justice are often misguided, disproportionate and hardly ever end well.

1Alex:
As terrorists continue to attack communities across Nigeria, many youths of communities are beginning to take the bull by the horns to defend themselves because they no longer have hope on the government.

While nobody can blame people for wanting to stay alive, this trend could create a bigger security problem for Nigeria in the future.

The more communities arm themselves, the more weapons will spread across the country. The government may eventually defeat the terrorists, but how will it recover thousands of weapons already in circulation?

Some of these weapons could end up with kidnappers, armed robbers, political thugs, cult groups, and other criminals. Community defense groups formed today could also become rival armed groups tomorrow.

History has shown that it is much easier to stop insecurity from growing than to disarm people after they have acquired weapons and learned to depend on them for protection.

If government does not decisively tackle terrorism now, Nigeria may eventually face two problems instead of one: terrorists on one hand and widespread arms proliferation on the other.

A stitch in time saves nine.

It's up to the government to take your advice. But in the case of where more than hundreds of villages been sacked and wiped out and thousands of communities captured in the North it won't make sense to the Neighbouring ones who are now sitting ducks where their saving grace the payment of levies demanded by the terrorists

Atleast the bigger-evil(terrorism) will be eliminated.
You can leave us with the lesser crimes(community defense turned rival armed groups).

zeuss:
Does the OP prefer that the people remain unarmed and helpless as they are getting wiped off the face of the Earth. The irony of all this is that the people terrorizing Nigerians with kidnapping and death for their gains now were also terrorizing Nigerians 300 year ago with death and kidnapping and slavery during the era of the trans-saharan slave trade. They are devoid of humanity and will continue to pick off others as long as it is profitable. The only way to arrest these evil people is the ability to fight back bestowed with the possession of arms.
In conclusion, If every Nigerian is armed, armed criminality will cease to exist.

Well written. Although I understand the author’s point, which is, GOVERNMENT show tackle terrorism now or tackle it in such a way that people do not begin to resort to “self-help”, as it would cause another problem in the future. The author also understands why people depend themselves as they have lost all hope of protection from the government, you couldn’t fault the author.

kidnappers, armed robbers, political thugs, cult groups are armed already,

Restructure nigeria based on the aburi accord and there will not be problem.

The biggest problem facing nigeria now and in the future is TERRORIST/JIHADIST INFILTRATION as a result of the so called repentant terrorist program.

People who have killed tens of thousands of innocent people and displaced people into idp camps are said to be repentant.
Once soldier, always a soldier.
Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.

Remember, from the northern flank of nigeria,dangerous aliens from outside stroll in and mix with northerners.

How does one differentiate?

people should arm and defend their communities.

Extraordinary circumstances usually leads to extraordinary consequences.
These dangers are noted but cannot compare with the clear and present danger everyone faces now.
Your alternative is that people continue to hope on a hopeless government?
A government that undermines itself on a daily basis by playing politics instead of proactive governance.?
This government cannot be more proactive than it is right now...it has no capacity and capability do anything more than it is doing now. That is exactly why we are here, musing the possibility of arming citizens because the government has failed in all it's statutory functions.

The army and the FG are encouraging self defense just because the kidnappers are mostly Fulanis

if they were Igbos or Yorubas, the army will seem more capable to quell the crime, they will comb all the bushes and peoples homes looking for innocent people to pick up

Now it is Islamic Fulanis, all of a sudden 'Only the military and the FG can't fight terrorism", 'we need the people to defend themselves"

1Alex:
As terrorists continue to attack communities across Nigeria, many youths of communities are beginning to take the bull by the horns to defend themselves because they no longer have hope on the government.

While nobody can blame people for wanting to stay alive, this trend could create a bigger security problem for Nigeria in the future.

The more communities arm themselves, the more weapons will spread across the country. The government may eventually defeat the terrorists, but how will it recover thousands of weapons already in circulation?

Some of these weapons could end up with kidnappers, armed robbers, political thugs, cult groups, and other criminals. Community defense groups formed today could also become rival armed groups tomorrow.

History has shown that it is much easier to stop insecurity from growing than to disarm people after they have acquired weapons and learned to depend on them for protection.

If government does not decisively tackle terrorism now, Nigeria may eventually face two problems instead of one: terrorists on one hand and widespread arms proliferation on the other.

A stitch in time saves nine.

There was arms proliferation in Rwanda during the war. They were all disarmed.Go and see Rwanda now. This attitude of 'can't be done' is what is making this govt to fail.

Since we adopted Made in America democracy,we should have rights to defend ourselves

The solution is that people with guns should be registered simple

All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.

If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:

There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.

The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.

You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.


Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.

Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah. Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.

Nakedly circumambulations of the Kaaba, annual prigrimage to mecca, kissing of black stone, bowing towards the stone (stone worship) are all preislamic pagan practises by the nomadic Bedouin tribe and the same is what they still practice today.

All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in terms of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.

In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbors, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders and prophets whose morality and characters are highly questionable.


Release yourself today from the shackles of religion. Stop wasting away your life and existence!

If you like, allow one illiterate alfa, imam or pastor to keep telling you "you will go to hell". When you die, your dead experience will be like the same experience you had before your conception (pregnancy) ie. There is nothing like afterlife. Or where were you before your mother gave birth to you?

Well said. Permit me emphasize on the BIGGER, because a potential victim today may be a criminal in the future
God help us

That's the consequence of presiding and midwifing a failing state due to incompetence. The most vocal critic of Jonathan grabbed power and is at loss how to use it because he never was capable.

Government can’t protect people,people protect themselves and it is a problem again?