Shunning Terrorism in Nigeria -By Salahuddeen Muhammad Akko

For quite sometime one may realize that Nigeria is currently playing a game of ‘Death or Alive’ due to the current menace of  terrorism bedeviling this country and other indices of  progress and development.

It’s undoubtful considering the everyday increase in the cases of terrorism that destructs every part of this country in all the different four geopolitical zones we have: the Southern, Western, Eastern and the Northern part, that we may end up in extreme poverty and hunger if we do not curb it in due time.

But we all know, as the saying goes ‘every problem have its cause and possible solutions’ same does to the evil wind of terrorism in this country. It must have some causes and the ways to tackle it.

Firstly, to know the ways we can shun it we must know the causes. Knowing the causes would foreshadows the ways we can tramp it out in this nation.

What are the causes?

However, in my view, bad leadership can become an exponent major which causes terrorism in a particular country or community. Because if leaders in a particular country or community are bad, they can not be able to render their  services and other social developments  into a maximal point. And this would however ginger terrorism in a particular country, for those bad leaders can not be able to tackle the other bedrocks of causing terrorism.

Howbeit, when the youths of a particular country are illiterates, terrorism would however get a room to start on. This can be solely understandable if we have a thorough look into the life of literate and illiterate ones. Literate people are hardly found in dubious acts like terrorism or so. Those that are mostly found involved in doing dastard acts are 80% illiterates. This can be agreeable if we look at the then Boko Haram terrorists. They are claiming that they are on the right path and doing ‘Jihad’, the concept which means ‘struggling to fight against evils’ which in the reality is not. But due to the illiteracy, they are killing innocent people.

To bring a solution to the dreadful menace of terrorism which both directly and indirectly affects our peace, progress and development as a country, our Imams and pastors should stand on their feets in order to play a vigorous role in tackling it by enlightening people to do good things and to stop doing bads things which we reffered as ‘ dubious acts’ in the places of worship, like Mosques and Churches. This would however help to tramp it out in a particular country, owing to the fact that no any religion approved armed robbery, kidnapping or killing of innocent people and host of others.

Conclusively, government at each level should be serious about responsibilities of their respective citizens in order to secure their lives, properties and banish their hunger.And government also should put more concentration about youths by giving them education and jobs after they became graduate from Universitie,colleges and so. This would however help them to cater their needs and to make positive thoughts for brighter future in a particular country.

Salahuddeen Muhammad Akko writes from the great city of Gombe state.