OPINION: Northern Nigeria Will Soon Kill Nigeria











OPINION: Northern Nigeria Will Soon Kill Nigeria 

 _President Bola Tinubu, in his June 12 broadcast, condemned terrorists and their work but told us not to “assign blame or point fingers” because “crime has no ethnicity.” Crime may indeed have no ethnicity, but that does not relieve us of the duty to identify the environment that breeds and sustains it. A desert does not cease to be a desert because it contains a few oases._ 

 _As I write this, Yoruba schoolchildren and their teachers have spent one full month in captivity, held in the bush by badly brought up boys from northern Nigeria. Exposed to the rain, exposed to the sun, the abducted remain bargaining chips in a conflict they knew nothing of. Their captors reportedly demand the release of northern terrorist commanders in northern detention centres._ 

 _A friend heard the president and said this president is as afraid of the North as all those before him. The fear of the North is regularly reflected in our reluctance to “point fingers” and confront uncomfortable truths about the sources and scale of the country's insecurity and crises of development._ 

 _No harm seems too grievous to excuse when it comes from the North. A General from the North died in the captivity of terrorists birthed by the North, yet his state government announced that he died “a natural death.” The terrorists reciprocated the courtesy and graciously released his corpse for burial._ 

 _At his burial, there was no loud clerical revolt against the murderers, no moral earthquake, no national reckoning; no thunderous fatwa was pronounced against the killers. There was no collective outrage strong enough to shake the land. It was..._ 

 _Only the North understands the North and its strange, opaque ways._ 

 _Northern Nigeria has for decades incubated much of the violence, extremism, and instability that continue to threaten national cohesion, yet public discourse by our leaders often avoids naming this reality directly. Until we are willing to define the problem honestly and acknowledge the region's central role in the crisis, meaningful solutions will remain elusive._ 

 _The problem called Northern Nigeria should have a solution. What that solution is I do not know. What I know is that the solution cannot lie in denying the problematic choices and realities that have brought us to this shore of unremitting insecurity._ 

 _We are in a mess; what (or where) is the way out? Someone..._ 

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