The Buhari Years - Another Era of Dashed Expectations PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
His redemptive pledges on corruption, insecurity and economic resurgence seemingly had the animation of the famous revolutionary triad: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Unfortunately, President Buhari squandered the goodwill sooner than later, by allowing cronyism, sectionalism and lopsidedness to undermine his political appointments. This made nonsense of the,"I belong to everybody and I belong to no one" proclamation in his inaugural speech.
Yet, the situation today is that Nigeria has never been more insecure than it experienced under Buhari. Killings by bandits, herdsmen and other criminal gangs, particularly in the North-West, North-Central and South-East, have turned the country into a place where the sanctity of life is hollow. Impervious to change, Buhari is leaving behind an ill-equipped, inefficient and centralised policing system that has left large swathes of the national territory in the control of non-state actors.
Ironically, bandits' prowling these transportation routes, kidnapping and killing those who dared to travel, took the shine off these projects. For instance, the last seven kidnapped victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train gunmen attack of March, 2022, paid N800 million in ransom - at N100 million each; while the foreigner among them coughed up N200 million. Early this month, bandits kidnapped 40 worshippers in a church in Kaduna.
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