Government in defence of Bandits

 I hope it will come home to haunt government officials. With mouth

agape I watch and listen as Government struggles to justify banditry in the Northern part of Nigeria.

This brings to mind an incident in the Idumota area of Lagos in the dark days of Military regime in Nigeria.

A woman was harassed by street urchins and it got the attention of government authorities. 

The urchins were rounded up in their numbers and thrown into confinement.

For a time, there was sanity. The point is that until a well connected woman was touched, the government played deaf, dumb and undisturbed.

A time will come sooner than we expect when all those who are calling bandits businessmen would recant.

There are not enough jobs. The area is too large to be policed.

Believe me, soon these excuses will wear another toga when the unexpected happens.

Is it not surprising that Northerners are in power, dominate the security agencies and yet we have insecurity.

To what end is then their hold unto Power? 

Perhaps they can borrow not only money from China, but sense to solve the problems of unemployment?

China may not want to help them, lest we become independent of their help.

Jagaban is their associate but he wants power to himself in spite of zoning and power shift arrangements in place.

Can Atiku help? Only if he would be placed in charge. But his headship of OBJ's National Council on Privatization is nothing to recommend him for headship of Nigeria.

In God's time we shall get there. For now bandits are criminals and remain a challenge to the government of the day. QED.