Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Nation And the Endless Orgy of Terrorism

Vanguard
28 June 2011


opinion

WHEN on July 12, 2009, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, bombed Atlas Cove, a sprawling Federal Government owned oil facility in the heart of Lagos, it was a shocked nation that suddenly woke up to the realisation that the country as a whole was no longer safe from attack by the Niger Delta militants who, up till then, had restricted their attacks to the oil facilities in that region.

But Nigerians were soon to learn bitterly that they have more than the Niger Delta militants to contend with. They have since witnessed other forms of terrorism. In the Southeast, a group of young men led by a notorious criminal by name Osisi ka nkwu (which literally translated, means the tree that is tougher than palm tree) laid siege on Abia State from where they spread their dragnets to neighbouring states, kidnapping all that came their way and demanding ransoms running into millions of Naira.

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