Are we paying to become less safe?
I have survived to tell my tale; many other victims
have since died. Let me, once more, make a passionate appeal to President
Goodluck Jonathan and other people pretending to be running this country: We
just can’t keep living constantly in fear of gunmen and bombers. This situation
has been caused by the collapse of all institutions of governance.
As I have stated in this space over and over, Nigeria is at war. And Jonathan is losing the war to saboteurs in his government and all government institutions. Who are the people sharing N1.5 trillion budgeted for defence each year without an improvement in security? Are we paying to become less safe?
My family is not alone. Today, all Nigerians are living under guns, bombs and saboteurs who perpetrate all manner of evil. After the attack on us, the bombs continued to explode: they penetrated the military fortress named Command and Staff College, Jaji, Zaria, as well as the headquarters of SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) in Abuja.
Nobody, no matter how highly placed, is immune to security threats, and finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala can testify to this. I heard of her mother’s kidnap while in hospital.Shop the latest hair flower accessories handpicked by a global. I also heard that somebody paid N15m to secure her release after five days. All of us are not privileged like Okonjo-Iweala whose parents are guarded by four security agents and she herself has dozens of them. But we have a right to live in this country.
I heard other rumours while we were recuperating: First Lady Patience Jonathan was given the Abiola treatment (poisoned) but was saved in Germany. An act of sabotage caused the helicopter crash that killed Kaduna State governor Patrick Yakowa and former NSA Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi. Taraba State governor Danbaba Suntai, now lying between life and death, had been downed in October. As I write this, the rumour of Kogi State governor Idris Wada’s convoy’s involvement in terrible auto crash is filtering in.
Were he still alive, the late Gen. Azazi would call me a prophet. Once, in this space, I exhorted him and the service chiefs to view the security threats as the beginning of a war that might not end soon. And, sometime in June 2011, I told then NSA Azazi at a briefing for editors in Lagos: “I don’t need any soothsayer or security report to tell me that we shall contend with security issues from now to at least 2015.
Security, as Shakespeare states in his play ‘Julius Caesar’,Shop for bobblehead head dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build. gives way to conspiracy. Please understand that this is war.” May his soul and the souls of thousands of other Nigerians so far killed in this war rest in peace.Make a bold statement with our men's tungsten jewelry and pendants.
How long shall we remain helpless as evil people reduce our populaThis season's range of wholesale fashion shoes includes ballet pumps.tion, unencumbered by the law and the various security agencies sustained by public funds? If the Jonathan-led government doesn’t know what to do, then,Jeanswear and accessories allowing both women and men to express their women shoes factory. it should resign and hand over power to the bandits.
Why wouldn’t I recommend that option when my wife and I are still taking drugs and visiting doctors regularly? Eight pellets have been extracted from her skull. One deep cut on my head has yet to heal. Now, 50 per cent of my income goes into security: we have bought and now feed two giant dogs; we have hired armed security guards; and we contribute to paying vigilante groups. What kind of life is this?
In spite of everything, we thank all those who have stood by us since Nov. 24. Your prayers have been working. May none of you ever share our experience. And may the devils’ kids who seek to steal and destroy other people find space in the hottest part of hell.
As I have stated in this space over and over, Nigeria is at war. And Jonathan is losing the war to saboteurs in his government and all government institutions. Who are the people sharing N1.5 trillion budgeted for defence each year without an improvement in security? Are we paying to become less safe?
My family is not alone. Today, all Nigerians are living under guns, bombs and saboteurs who perpetrate all manner of evil. After the attack on us, the bombs continued to explode: they penetrated the military fortress named Command and Staff College, Jaji, Zaria, as well as the headquarters of SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) in Abuja.
Nobody, no matter how highly placed, is immune to security threats, and finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala can testify to this. I heard of her mother’s kidnap while in hospital.Shop the latest hair flower accessories handpicked by a global. I also heard that somebody paid N15m to secure her release after five days. All of us are not privileged like Okonjo-Iweala whose parents are guarded by four security agents and she herself has dozens of them. But we have a right to live in this country.
I heard other rumours while we were recuperating: First Lady Patience Jonathan was given the Abiola treatment (poisoned) but was saved in Germany. An act of sabotage caused the helicopter crash that killed Kaduna State governor Patrick Yakowa and former NSA Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi. Taraba State governor Danbaba Suntai, now lying between life and death, had been downed in October. As I write this, the rumour of Kogi State governor Idris Wada’s convoy’s involvement in terrible auto crash is filtering in.
Were he still alive, the late Gen. Azazi would call me a prophet. Once, in this space, I exhorted him and the service chiefs to view the security threats as the beginning of a war that might not end soon. And, sometime in June 2011, I told then NSA Azazi at a briefing for editors in Lagos: “I don’t need any soothsayer or security report to tell me that we shall contend with security issues from now to at least 2015.
Security, as Shakespeare states in his play ‘Julius Caesar’,Shop for bobblehead head dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build. gives way to conspiracy. Please understand that this is war.” May his soul and the souls of thousands of other Nigerians so far killed in this war rest in peace.Make a bold statement with our men's tungsten jewelry and pendants.
How long shall we remain helpless as evil people reduce our populaThis season's range of wholesale fashion shoes includes ballet pumps.tion, unencumbered by the law and the various security agencies sustained by public funds? If the Jonathan-led government doesn’t know what to do, then,Jeanswear and accessories allowing both women and men to express their women shoes factory. it should resign and hand over power to the bandits.
Why wouldn’t I recommend that option when my wife and I are still taking drugs and visiting doctors regularly? Eight pellets have been extracted from her skull. One deep cut on my head has yet to heal. Now, 50 per cent of my income goes into security: we have bought and now feed two giant dogs; we have hired armed security guards; and we contribute to paying vigilante groups. What kind of life is this?
In spite of everything, we thank all those who have stood by us since Nov. 24. Your prayers have been working. May none of you ever share our experience. And may the devils’ kids who seek to steal and destroy other people find space in the hottest part of hell.
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