Those who are advising President Buhari and his government are not doing a good job most times. If they can remember how the Boko-haram terrorist group started and expanded to this stage they are at the moment, then the government of Nigeria should have been more careful and thoughtful before the invasion of Chief Sunday Igboho’s residence and the abduction of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
It was alleged that the Boko Haram group lost their leader when they had not even become a terrorist group. This got them very angry and the group took to violence. What some people believed to be a minor issue in the past has now become so huge that the government of Nigeria can not control it anymore. The Boko Haram group has expanded that even when the government of Nigeria claimed that they have been defeated, the next moment they are back causing havoc in the northern part of Nigeria. In our opinion, if a leader very dear to a group was killed as alleged, the best way to get the group not to take to violence is to bring them to a round table and have a discussion on why the government did what they did, but the Nigerian government ignored the northern group that lost their leader. This may have been the reason for Boko Haram, and now they are uncontrollable. This same method is what the government of Nigeria is adopting by invading the house of Chief Sunday Igboho, who is only agitating for his people to leave Nigeria. Many lives were allegedly lost during the invasion. The same goes to Mr Nnamdi Kanu who was abducted and brought back to Nigeria. Now the militant group called the Avengers is on one side in the Niger Delta region, threatening to bring the country down, which the government of Nigeria should look into and find a solution on how to solve all these problems. Our point is that the government of Nigeria should follow dialogue to solve these issues. If there is something which the government of Nigeria is doing that is making almost every region in Nigeria want to break away, then the government should sit at a round table and have it sorted out. Excessive force by the Nigerian government in a democracy may, in the long run, breed more dangerous armed groups like Boko Haram, which the Nigerian government may find difficult to deal with. Some Nigerians who spoke to the Viewers Corner News correspondent in Lagos said that if an uprising did not happen during Chief Abiola’s era, it would not happen at this time. That the government of Nigeria will subdue any agitation. Fine and good. The Nigerian government can inflict pain on whoever it wants and then walk away, but the underground battle that the government of Nigeria may face with these groups could be worse than Boko Haram. The Viewers Corner News team is therefore appealing to the federal government of Nigeria to seek peaceful means to resolve all issues so that Nigeria, a one-time sweet nation, can return to her glory.
Source: Viewers Corner News.