He demanded to know how far has it been and what El-Rifail has to say about terrorism today.

In my locality, there is an adage that says ” When a man is not present when a corpse is being lowered to the mother earth, he may not know the direction where the head situated “

Another quote also has it to mention” If I were the one, I would have held the lion by its tail”.This is very funny to believe when a bare handed man boasts of his ability to hold a lion’s tail and remains unconsumed, then we would come to realize that another Biblical “Samson” has resurfaced.

The above aphorisms and wise sayings are credited to the statements of the present Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nassir El-Rufai when he was busy criticizing Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for being incompetent and weak in tackling terrorism. According to El-Rufai in one of his broadcast shows, he opined that terrorism had become an industry in Nigeria citing the chibok girls who were held in captivity by boko haram insurgents. He also adduced that all the technical advice given to the Goodluck government for tackling the omens were ignored and rubbished to the mud due to carelessness but today, under the watch of the APC-led Federal government that El-Rufai is a prominent chieftain, terrorism had degenerated into a continental landmass without meaningful presidential instruments to curb the menace.

During Dr Goodluck regime, insurgency was resisted with all apparatus within the reach of the government to tackle the ugly trend even as Jonathan raised alarms on the infiltration of his government by allies, sympathizers, and informants to the rampaging terrorists.

The questions I politely ask His Excellency, Governor El-Rufai are (1) what has he successfully put in action to contain the marauding and uncontrollable cases of kidnapping and banditry that had almost swept the entire nooks and crannies of Kaduna State or is he short of ideas now on how best to engage the criminals?

(2) Why has he not been able to apply those security tackling measures the technical committee that he was one of the members during Jonathan regime recommended to improve security situation in Kaduna State as the governor on seat?

(3) Why would the El-Rufai watch his State become a hive for armed bandits, herdsmen killers, arsonists kidnappers, and rapists? Yet he carries on as if human lives are worth nothing.

You see, it is always easier to castigate a leader, find faults and apportion blames but when it gets to the doorstep of the fault finder, with all statutory power and resources to perform the same functions, the actor retires into his shelf as snail does.Today, countless numbers of souls had been lost to herdsmen killings in the north and southern part of Nigeria, and El-Rufai as the Chief Security officer of Kaduna State with full confidence in Buhari government is busy watching the atrocities while the perpetrators go unpunished as a result of ethnic sentiment and prebendalism rocking the boat of Nigeria Unity.

Instead, he would come up with a cheap propaganda that any person who killed a Fulani Man would have himself to blame. When interviewed for explanation, he said it was because Fulani are scattered in various parts of Africa and when you kill one in Nigeria, those in Sahara would come to say, you killed their fathers and brothers, then as result attack the locality in retaliation. Does this make any sense for a government that values the lives of her citizens?

Why would the government condone criminals and give shoot at sight orders in another part of the country to wipe away the people of that ethnic nationality in the pretext of fighting criminals. Are all criminals not the same or those from a given ethnic group are anointed not to be killed?

Still left for him and the government he speaks for to answer.

The same expert on security intelligence as he claimed to be could not suggest how best to tackle bandits but with all velocity suggested how to treat and handle ethnic agitators who had not killed even an ant.

This signifies the kind of government we run and expect the citizenry to wave banners of praises for us. Nigeria has a long way to go. Except we drop divided sentiment and nepotism, the journey would be farer for us; except the government eschew unnecessary cuddling of herdsmen with carrots hands by taking strict actions to stop their rampage and marauding activities, Nigeria will still be singing the same songs of sorrow instead of peace and unity.

The formula is very simple. Stop mudslinging in politics, promote ethnic cooperations and tolerance, run inclusive government, drop revenge – oriented use of EFCC/DSS apparatus against party opponents, revive the dwindling economy, create jobs and employment using Federal character principles, open full resistance against bandits and all forms of terrorism, stop ethnic harassment of the southern Nigerian peaceful agitators, learn how to dialogue, work to restructure the fiscal federalism then Nigeria will become an ice in a hot water pot.

Chief Dr . Emeka Kalu.