As Terror Upscales -By Edith Yassin

Edith Yassin

More versions of terror keep emerging even as our Military continues to battle BH.

Marauding herdsmen are persistently sacking communities and leaving death and misery in their wake. A dangerous trend, on the increase since 2010.

Kidnappers lay siege on highways and homes to capture hapless citizens for huge ransome.

Lynchings in the name of blasphemy. Niger, Kano, FCT and Zamfara are some of the states to witness this macabre acts within the year.

Various avenging groups continue to do damage to the economy and environment. This is post amnesty, NDDC and derivation funds.

Clashes between cults take on grotesque dimensions, extending to ritualistic and even political extremes.

The average citizen is terrorised in addition to the daily struggle to keep body and soul together in a recession.

The poor bear the brunt, starving in camps as IDPS or stoically in their homesteads all over the country.

A dire state in need of direction and resolution.

Edith Yassin wrote in from Abuja. Follow her on Twitter @ECyassin