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| Scene of Boko Haram’s suicide bomb attack on Police Force Headquarters in Abuja |
Tuesday’s declaration of emergency rule in three northern states by President Goodluck Jonathan confirms the fears of many people on the state of security in the country.
Nigerians are living witnesses to the numerous
unprovoked acts of aggression by the Boko Haram and its faceless allies
intended to disrupt peace and destabilize the country.
There have been several deadly bombing
incidents aimed at breeding bad blood among the component ethnic units
of this country and the killing of thousands of defenseless Nigerians in
cold blood, particularly women and children, in different parts of the
North.
The most recent incidents at Baga, Bama
in Borno State and Lafia in Nasarawa, in which scores of people,
including law enforcement agents, lost their lives to murderous attacks
by the same violent Islamic sect and the Ombaste cult, have left no one
in doubt that only a decisive action by the Presidency would go a long
way in stemming the tide of insecurity in the country.
More so, the attack on military, police
and prisons formations in Bama had taken place in the middle of
preparations by some members of the Northern elite to consolidate on the
setting up of a committee to supervise the planned amnesty for armed
insurgents in the region.
A few days after a crossfire between a
team comprising members of the Joint Military Taskforce, troops from
neighbouring Niger Republic and Chad, and insurgents in crises-ridden
Borno State had left about 185 people dead and over 2,000 houses razed
in the fishing village of Baga, hundreds of Boko Haram fighters in
buses, reportedly wielding sophisticated weapons, including
anti-aircraft guns mounted on trucks, had invaded Bama a few days ago.
They killed about 60 people and set free over 100 prisoners.
