#NorthIsBleeding: Sokoto And Suya’d Passengers By Bandits

Earlier this month, I encountered the brutal video of passengers that visualized bandits barbequed passengers. They are said to be nothing less than 42.

Media moguls would later report it in the wee hours of 8th December, 2021.

An eyewitness account was reported to have said “bandits are now on the rampage”. What is the most heartbreaking was that they surrounded the vehicle conveying the passengers to ensured no one escaped.

It brings up seemly rhetorics-questions like, do Police exist in Sokoto State? Are there any Security? If they truly exist, something should not have escalated to this.

The Nigerian populace keeps asking government, “what have you done to the issue of banditry, kidnappings, killings and all in our dear country? Why won’t they ask? Government seems to do nothing?+!

I therefore write this as a distress call to the Nigerian power-that-be, so we won’t have a repeat of this occasion; not only in Sokoto but all parts of the country. Bandits in the North and mayhem in the South with alleged connections with Biafra and Odùduwà Republics agitations.

Nigeria is on fire when it comes to insecurity. It’s sitting on a tickling bomb.

The government need to wake from ‘un-hourly doze’!

I marvel why Nigerians cannot speak up whenever they set their eyes on money. Did you know what the Chairman of the affected say? Umaru Danyaro, Chairman of Sabon Birni Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto told the state government should not be blamed for the escalation of banditry and killings of innocent citizens.

He made this statement when Aminu Tambuwal, the Governor of Sokoto, paid a condolence visit to the terrorised area after bandits burnt 23 passengers to death.

Not that what he said is totally wrong but we should not be blinded by money. We all see how the North is bleeding, we need to look for ways to secure it and not laud the government in this kind of horrible situation.

Let the truth be told, the Chairman supposed to suggest helpful ways to curb the insurgency not playing tiny display of praises.

What does the money – I call it a mere 250,000 naira – will do to them?

Find the solution now!

(c)

Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed writes from Sokoto State. He is an investigative journalist cum law student of Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto State.

He is the National Correspondent at Track News Nigeria and Chief Editor of Scholar Africa Magazine in Kenya.