Nation's Undeclared 'Wars'

Leadership

14 January 2012

analysis

Nation's Undeclared 'Wars'

Deputy Editor, SONI DANIEL, writes on the subsidy and sectarian crises that are pushing Nigerians to the edge, and espouses the need to stave off the looming doom that has the potential to hurt the nation and its people at a period of unnerving economic peril.

The bombs have been booming unceasingly. Each time the rubbles begin to clear, blood, tears and sorrow flow as torrents of a surging river, difficult to control. From the crevices, bodies of innocent children, men and women are wheeled away into ramshackled morgues, decrepit hospitals and emergency wards of private and public medical facilities.

And, as an unwritten but effective rule, security agents have always been taken unawares by the blood suckers, who unconscionably bomb, kill and main others as if they are an invading army, on a mission to annihilate their enemies. As the ripples of the incessant bombings and massacres resonate in the land, confusion, fear, agony, anger and hatred have been woven into the very fabric of the nation's life.

Nigerians have never had it so bad since the end of the civil war in 1970. Apart from the self-inflicted crisis triggered by the reckless annulment of the June 12 presidential election won by Chief Moshood Abiola, Nigeria has never come as close to the brink of a civil war as it has been lately.