MAIDUGURI!

How can you be sitting down

Telling me

That you care

That you care

When every time I look around

People suffer and suffer

In every way

In every way

                                     – Late Bob Marley

Do we really care about our brothers and our future??!!

What had happened in Baga and what is happening now in Maiduguri has compelled me to say liars we are, if YES is the answer we have to the above question.

They have been smashing and grinding our future. The blood shed is too much. In fact it is not a massacre but apocalyptic attempt to the Muslim Umma.

Is there no any cardiologist who can tell our people that the killing, the blood shed, the burning, the …… all are signs of heartlessness???!!!

Is there no any journalist who can dig out the truth and relate it to the people and government???!!!

Is there no any elite who knows the ways of finding lasting solution to the problem???!!!

Pity, our journalists are only interested in pasting the killings in their papers. The elite are there making stupid analysis.

Where are our northern leaders? Frankly, I have to let you know that your cocoon will never protect you. An adage in Hausa goes “ABINDA YA CI DOMA BA ZAI BAR AWAI BA”.

By God, if the leaders, the respected statesmen, the elite the common men of our region, arewa, contribute nothing to end this massacre in the name of fighting terrorism, I have to quote what Ibrahm Sheme had said in one of his articles:

  “The ghost of those killed and those to be killed would not let you sleep in peace. Amin.”