What are you up to? At times, I wonder if you’re deliberately quiet or you are just too overwhelmed with the circumstances in which you have found yourself. I have watched, helplessly, in the last few months as things appear to be spinning out of control on all fronts. I recall, and repeat, the opening salvo: “Mr President, I don’t know how you would take this, but there is no nicer way of putting it – Nigeria is going down. It was an open letter to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, whom I accused of sleeping on duty. Your Excellency, I wrote an article on Jentitled ‘Mr. In Akwa Ibom, police stations were attacked and officers, including a female, were killed. Gunmen razed a police command in Imo and killed five officers. Northerners were murdered and mutilated in Anambra. Nine police officers, including a DPO, were killed in Kebbi. Over 50 villages were deserted in Niger after attacks by Boko Haram, who cheekily hoisted their dark flag in one of them. More bloodbaths in Zamfara claimed over 100 lives. Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, what a hell of a week it was! Again, undergraduates kidnapped in Kaduna were slain while the ransom was still being negotiated.
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