The indiscriminate killing and agony been perceived by the North-easthern part of Nigeria is becoming alarming and out of hand.The rate at which innocent citizens are been killed every day by day calls for a concern.The big question is the federal government of Nigeria doing enough to eradicate this menace ravaging mostly the Northern part of the country? or are we hepless?let's flash our mind back how it all started.
On August 26, 2011, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a United Nations compound in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, killing at least 21 people. Boko Haram, a militant group based in Nigeria’s northwestern states of Yobe and Borno, claimed responsibility. Boko Haram is the popular title for a group that calls itself Jamaat ahl al-sunna li-dawa wa-l-qital, and it has operated in Nigeria since 2002-2003. Its popular name connotes “[Western] education is forbidden” as a result of the perception that the group stood against any form of non-Islamic education. It has gained recent notoriety because of its transition from being a local radical Salafist group, which until 2009 had a largely quietist nature, to a Salafi-jihadi group that has demonstrated the capacity to carry out major operations, including suicide attacks in central Nigeria. It is in Boko Haram that one can see the possibility of a homegrown Salafi-jihadi group that could destabilize Nigeria for the foreseeable future (not unlike the more tribal and local nationalistic groups operating in the Niger Delta to the south).
Ten years after the first attack launched by the armed group Boko Haram, more than two million people remain displaced from homes in northeast Nigeria, the highest number of any time over the last decade.
"Every week, people continue to flee violence and insecurity in northeast Nigeria. Many settle along the roadside or on empty strips of land, devoid of proper sanitation and water points," says Eric Batonon, Country Director at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Nigeria.
Hundreds of thousands of people are living in overcrowded displacement sites far below international minimum standards and without proper access to latrines and clean water. Some have put up shelters made of wooden sticks and pieces of ripped fabric. These improvised shelters provide no protection against wind or rain and offer almost no privacy or security. Many don't even have a door - leaving women, men and children highly vulnerable to intrusions and attacks.
What is the way forward? The federal government of Nigeria as a matter of urgency should rise up to it's responsibilities in protecting life and property which is her primary responsibility as was enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and bring an end to this diabolic act meted out to innocent citizens of the country.
What I have to say about this is that we dont have security in Nigeria and we are all corrupted, we have alot of soldiers to fight for there country which they are willing to die for Nigeria but ko adequate weapon to face this so called boko haram.. the weapon the Terrorists has is more effective than the soldiers. What's the point of the Government?