Nigerians want to support their president, government and military to fight terrorism to a
total stop. But the bad governance, leadership lawlessness, the corruption, the impunity, and
the real terror (poverty and denial of fundamental human rights) inflicted on Nigerians by
those elected and appointed to govern have destroyed our confidence and trust in them.
The citizens of the US and UK support their governments against terrorism because terrorism was
not caused by bad governance, leadership lawlessness, corruption, impunity, poverty, high
illiteracy, high unemployment, etc.
but terrorism has found its way into Nigeria because:
there is a near total loss of true loyalty and patriotism of Nigerians to the Nigerian state;
the nation's wealth is circulated among only less than 5% (political elits);
the only opportunity for the citizens to aer their voices (during elections) are subverted
through rigging and intimidating militarization;
endemic corruption prevails and evidently corrupt public office holders go unponished;
politicians hold office for four or eight years and become billonaires while civil servants
work for 35 years and have their pentions stolen;
leaders celebrate paper developmental achievements with little or no real evidence to show;
the children of the rich and wealthy arrogantly display and waist the nation's resources stolen
by their parents to the oppression and envy of the children from poor parents;
the children of poor people and their parents resort to self help through criminal activities;
opposing political groups who no longer have confidence in the polity resort to self help
through various forms of aggression against the state;
those in government play the politics of self denial, political propaganda and psychofancy, and
blame trading about the reality of terrorism;
the realities of politically motivated accute ethno-religious fundamentalism; and
the challenges of a badly socio-economically and politically structured Nigerian federation.
The list of the causes of terrorism in Nigeria is indeed endless.
But the dilema confronting the Nigerian people is the challenge of determining which of the two terrorists to fight; the terror inflicted by those in government, or those inflicted by insurgence.
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