A Failed Government -By Umar Babangida

The insecurity has been gnawing at the people of North, particularly North West, since after the ascension of this current government. The insecurity issue in this country is a long-drawn-out topic which has been, until now, discussing for a long while. But it is always deteriorating and seems to have no end in the nearest future, for these dreadful terrorists are emboldened by the day and defeated against, in a manner of speaking, this current democratic government for over six years. It has now been agreed that the government has already failed woefully to consign the insecurity issue into the little ban of history. No government, in the entire world, would become spectator while her citizens are slaughtered, killed, maimed, raped, and kidnapped for over six years.

This government exemplifies the all qualities, as a prerequisite, for any government to be called a failed government. People had fundamentally voted for this government to protect their lives and properties, but nothing people are getting under this government, as a dividend of their relentless efforts of electing them, except frightening and ramped up the tremors of pain and sufferings under the thumbs of this government. What a failed government!

The government of kastina state, whose governor Aminu Bello Masari had admittedly and confessed that he failed utterly and completely the people of kastina state has piled on the agony of people of kastina state with shut down of network, closure of market, ban on using motorcycles and amongst other in the state. This unwise decision of shutdown network brought about nothing but multiply the sufferings of people for more than two months. Is that not an utter and complete failure?

This failed government has taken this decision sorely, with malice aforethought, to stop the snivellings, complains and, with an intention, to smother the news of their noticeable failures on social media. Because people might have no simple and accessible media like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to unburden themselves to the world on their sufferings and hardships beneath this government. If not so, why even while the shutdown of network, since they had brazenly said they take this decision to bring about an end to this insecurity in katsina state, yet these terrorists are Killing, kidnapping, and causing an untold damages beyond before the shut down of network. This failed government has just, albeit surreptitiously, denied people the freedom to narrate and report their ordeals to the world. What a tyrant and ignorant people we have as our leaders?

In spite of network closure, a severe bout of assails are implacably implemented across the state and people are left helplessly with no even network to get a means of contacting, when they are under attack and in crying need of assistance, security for their response. This gave them, the terrorists, guts to do all their evil acts uninterruptedly on innocents people. They’re even mocking, when they were killing them, people to called police or soldiers if they can reach any; in a demented laughing. Does shutdown of network reduce anything or spur their merciless acts?

If this government is indeed wanted to nip insecurity in the bud would have never shutdown network rather using it to track and trace the perpetrators of this evil acts from whichever hideouts they might be. But this is not their problem rather to make people skirted faulting, posting snide comments on social media platforms to cover their failures. Relatively speaking, We had never found ourselves in a tough conditions as we are in this government. This is a sheer failure.

The closure of market has done more harms to our economy than good on our people in katsina state, this unwise decision has plunged many people into the brink of bankruptcies. For this, despite the parlour of the state economy, has pushed many people in the state into abject poverty. People are now afraid of going to their farms for harvesting. These kidnappers, in some remote areas, are setting up fire off the harvested crops, kidnapped anyone whom they might caught came for harvesting and claiming huge ransom. People had not voted out previous government to live under this utterly and completely failed government.

People should wake up from their long slumber and voted out these crops of demented, deranged, illiterate, uneducated politicians and hosts of asswipes as the steerers of our affairs in katsina state in the next election. For it comes to everybody that they had already woefully failed. The early the better as they said.

Umar Babangida, writes from funtua, katsina state. And can be reached at omarbangees@gmail.com