Many people show apathy towards the political activities in their country probably because of the ill doings of the government. Elections are rigged to favour a particular persons. Results are manipulated in one way or the other so that on person will come out as the winner.
A contesting individual will stand tall and shamelessly on a podium to spout promises. The politician says: If you elect me, I would bring down heaven on earth and wipe out all the tears from your eyes. During election period, they will become humble to the core. Some even go ahead to eat in the streets with the poor to show their humility but deep down, they are just doing it for the votes. After they get the power, all the acts would be dropped.
There are quite a lot of political backed rascality in this country. The incident of bandits and terrorism in my country have been in existence for a long time, but it seems like it gained more attention after a tweet from President Donald Trump. After that tweet, things became worst. The levels of kidnapping and killings got an all time. Videos circulated. The brutality was something else. It was like a one sided massacre.
As all these things are going on, instead of the country's heads to focus on eradicating banditry in the country, we were busy trying to save another president's seat in Benin Republic. Not just that, a political personnel was actively trying to indirectly protect the bandits by saying that the government should bargain and pay the bandits, and kidnappers that are terrorising citizens. As he called it, he said they are doing their business and the government should negotiate with them.
This made me to begin to think if the government actually has a hand in these happenings, but then, I don't know. Maybe they don't. It's just a hypothesis. Moreover the government pledged to protect her citizens no matter the cost but then, it seems like they have failed to protect the citizens of this country. It's quite disheartening.
I was not actually very surprised when a political personnel asked the government to negotiate with the bandits. There are many things that I have seen in this country, so, a lot of things don't surprise me anymore. However, I was quite disappointed by the actions of that person. Instead of calling the gruesome actions of these bandits bad, he said that they are doing business and as such, the government should negotiate with bandits. Had it been these people were armed robbers or something, it could have been cool. But these people have killed and are still killing and kidnapping citizens who look up to the government for protection.
Welp, it's a good thing that the US intervened. Their recent actions in bombing a terrorist camp in Sokoto is actually a commendable one. Hopefully, we get more positive results on the eradication of these bandits. The country will be better without them.
Thank you for reading.
