By Bayo Oluwasanmi
I penned a piece titled A Doomed People published in SaharaReporters
October 11, 2012 on the riveting butchery of four students of University of
Port Harcourt in Aluu three kilometers from the main campus of the university.Friday,
October 5, 2012 Biringa Chiadika Lordson, Ugonna Kelechi Obuzor, Mike Lloyd
Toku, and Tekena Erikena were turned to hunted animals, clubbed, broken, and
finally eliminated.
The case known as Aluu Four, till date, the killers have not been
brought to justice. I have edited the piece to reflect the name of the victim
of the Kano murder. The Aluu Four murder was
a case of debt collection that went awry. But
the characterization of the Nigeria situation expressed in the article remains
the same.
Nigeria is trapped between legislators who are mentally disordered
offenders and criminal lunatics roaming Wambai market in Kano and other parts
of Nigeria. The census explosion of lunatics in Nigeria is part of planned
expansion and extension of inmates at the National Asylum to make Nigeria a Central
Criminal Lunatic Asylum (CCLA) nation.
The morbid utterances, priorities, and actions of the lawbreakers make
them lunatics. If law makers were deranged, how can the ruled keep their
sanity? Deviant or odd behaviors have become the norm. The situation now is,
sanity begets sanity. It's now murder and madness by doomed youths. Angry
Muslim youths in Kano last week beheaded Igbo woman trader, Bridget Agbaheme
over allegations that she blasphemed during a religious argument at Wambai
market. Nigeria has become a front-page material for all the evils in the
world.
Our hearts have become strangers to divine influence. Nigeria is home
for abandoned monster of cruelty. It's been
an open season of killing in epic proportions across the country. The ceaseless
kidnappings, the brutal and brazen abductions, and horrific ritual killings
taking place all over the country make Nigeria a CCLA country.
What the hell is wrong with the misdirected
and deranged Kano youths? Beheading a woman for “blasphemy” against Prophet
Muhammad? A difference of opinion on Islam will now attract death by murder?
While their counterparts in civilized nations are busy working on tomorrow's inventions that would change the world
as we know it, the Kano home grown terrorists are busy looking for preys to
hunt down. A wasted generation badly messed up by wrong religious
indoctrination. Pummeled by fanaticism and infatuation of heretical teachings
of mangled and morbid religious beliefs and philosophies perpetrated by their
blood thirsty mentors and religious teachers. I bet you, these youths are lost
forever.
As I read the story, I was lost in thought. Dejection was on every line
of my face. I felt much older than my age. I was miserable and with good reason
– the apocalyptic face of doomed youths, the sliding further of my beloved
country into the abyss of shame, cruelty, and wickedness.
As I compose this article, my hand staggers
between the alphabets on the keyboard. I’m overcome by horror of a great
darkness. I keep asking myself: is this my country Nigeria? Personally, it’s a
bitter cup of humiliation and agony for me to read that a petty trader was
decapitated as meat readied for grill for burgers and suya. Reading the story,
I could visualize the killers dressed up in their abominable best, in a
perfectly understandable state of excitement, and I can see the visible signs
of their collective admiration and affection for the killing of the poor
innocent woman.
Nigeria is surrounded by sinful influences and corrupting pressures.
We’re notorious for our immorality, idolatry, treachery, cover up, and
polytheism all leading to a dangerous chain reactions. The murder of Bridget
Agbaheme served a text book example of our extended heartless religious
barbarism. Nigeria has become the proverbial barren tree flaunting its
pretentious foliage. Like the barren tree, it spreads its pretentious branches
aloft, luxuriant in appearance, and beautiful to the eye, but yielded nothing
but leaves.
Seems to me Satanic agencies are feverishly
working overtime to make Nigeria a forest of 170 million demons. Every day,
we’re treated to cornucopia of ancient evils. With the spate of killings,
kidnappings, and other indescribable butchery and decapitations of lives, our
humanity and civilization are being threatened, assaulted, and persecuted.
Simple arguments of differences of opinion on religion led to the coldly
and calculated murder of Bridget. We’ve become insensitive to these barbaric
acts so much so that such killings were greeted with clamorous throngs. These
times are different! Our humanity and civilization have never been less, more
bent, terrorized, and indeed vassalized.
Nigeria suffers from horrible void!
Right from antiquity, government has had to
grapple with two distinct functions, negative and positive. Its negative
functions include the prevention of violence, protection of life and property
as well as the enactment of criminal laws and seeing to their enforcement.
Government’s positive responsibilities, among others are to accelerate the
hopes and aspirations considered common and basic to the great majority of
citizens. Where are the inmates of the National Asylum? The killing feast of
Bridget should serve as a wake up call to “freshen up” the highest paid
lawbreakers in the world to reshape and redirect their abilities and priorities
and indeed jar them back to reality.
Where is the anger of the lawbreakers over the butchery? What plans have
they to rescue the nation from cheap deaths and ballooned fears that are
sending Nigerians into their early grave? When are they going to address the
nagging issue of religious bigots and fanatics? True, Nigeria has for several
years been in a perpetual state of anomie. But now, we’re sliding gradually
into intellectual and moral anarchy. When we recall the performance of the
lawbreakers to date, they have nothing to show for representing the people.
Nigerians have no faith in the present or in the future that things will get
better as long as we have these sponsors of lunacy as law makers. The only
visible things going on in the National Asylum are exhibition of bestialities.
Nigerians have developed native immunity to
violence and murder. Where is our collective sense of outrage, shared sense of
shame and sorrow? Where is the sense of loss and anger over the senseless
killing of Bridget? This is a different world! What sort of country is this?
Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul of the
law breakers. It’s business as usual. This is a different world!
We're in dead time. A blank period!
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