Kalare in Gombe: An Imminent Threat and a Course to Deflect -By Mubarak Said

Time changes as life too does. A home that once harboured and saved lives is now gradually transfigurating, engraving itself with fragments that one may find it very herculean to unearth. As narrated, back then, man lives a complex berth competition to survive, where the powerful ones take any thing for granted in advantage of their powers, and the powerless ones work very hard to adopt their own livings. Recently, something similar to this is germinating, the less heed paid to it, the more it would likely grow to crush us all.

Candidly, the Kalare phenomenon is stringently unsayable, as it is frequently taking another face, putting lives of many innocent people into exile. Recently, a tragedy of phone snatching, robbery and jungle killing became the matter in table in almost every where around Gombe. However, this is just a part of the thousands similar acts forgoing with a limitless pace. In the process of depending themselves from being robbed many people sustained a lot of injuries and even killed. Howbeit, it is always eschewing its known face by enclothing with another monstrous mask despite the stupendous works of security personnel to dethaw it.

One will be stocked with a plethora of apprehensions when he sees a fifteen-year-old boy unconsciously holding a matchete, floating on the streets like a bloated balloon or a directionless kite. What a pity! You could find them smoking, taking drugs, stealing and any other thing ears staved off to hear. As usual, their age range is between 15 to 25; very young. When a blame is to be thrown, none would dare to accept it, ranging from the parents that failed to control the habit transformation of their children seeing it as a bad-in-age moment to the government that we always look as a mirror for our problems.

Nonetheless, Gombe is listed among the peaceful states in northern part of Nigeria as it barely suffered Boko Haram and banditry riots, but to say it out, this is something likely different and irrelevant. As the state is now engulfed with rack up and deadly Kalare acts, especially within Gombe town. It has been escalating drastically within no time, steering many lives into labyrinth of extinction.  

More so, the days to the national general elections are always coming closer more and more, we all know the flagitious outcome it causes in the previous elections and the prospective scourges threatening to befall on us whenever we keep our hands rested and crossed plainly on our chests. It is known that these boys carry dangerous arms inline with the contrabands they took—brought to them by some unpatriotic contestants with the intention of destroying lives and properties of any one they detested. This is an alarming danger and a voluminous foresight to take action.

To mould it the piece, ignorance is the epitome of all the mishaps, as it is dethawed the troubles are much likely expected to be alright. Unless we join hands together between the parents; in discipline and supervising habits of the children and governments; to implement responsible agencies in tarnishing these acts, our lives will not run as much as we like it to be.

Mubarak Said writes from Gombe state.