by bjon Agera
Now that the bad mantra heretofore smearing Dr GEJ has
changed, and now good talk is beginning to pop up here and there in the right
places, with the appropriate cooing sounds, it is also worth mentioning, that
one of the grand projects that GEJ bequeathed to the Buhari administration was,
and still is, the railway shuttle between Kaduna and Abuja, which became the
escape route, hugely amplified by patronage from big wigs and senior government
officials, with heads buried so deep in the soil that begs of the big bird
ostrich, who should rightly be wearing shame on their faces instead of the
cheeky pride displayed in-convoy with armed security men to boot – a clear
admittance of defeat by armed bandits, now rightly dubbed “terrorists” on the
Kaduna – Abuja highway.
Yes. Small-time restive youths, now grown into huge
monsters, had all but chased off the highway, men of caliber and timber, now
scuttling with their tails between their legs, into the presumed, nay false, assumption
that the GEJ gifted standard gauge rail and wagon trail, off the highway thru
the bushes, was a solution to a serious national security debacle, involving
innocent citizen travelers on a public highway, who have, no less paid for, by
their taxes and numerous other levies by government, for the entrenchment of
security apparatchiks, secure enough to give peace and safety a chance to
enable safe travel by road.
Instead of providing solution to this debacle, we have
arrived, again, right in the crook of hook, from which we had been running.
Now, what next? Burrow a canal between Abuja and Kaduna to
ferry commuters, by engine boat, across safer waters? As amply demonstrated by
our now so-called Terrorists, who even attempted to stop air flight from Abuja
entering Kaduna, by storming the Kaduna airport with assault rifles and the
sort. What of the railway? Well, it is rather unfortunate that this would not
be the first time that terrorists have made attempts at disrupting train passenger
movement, and we sincerely condole with all those who have been affected by
these barbaric acts of cheap terror.
One may be tempted to ask what has Kaduna done to its youths
to have earned such anger from the youths, who won’t let them travel in peace?
They won’t let go by road; they went after the train, and airport…communities
of peasant farmers within the environ and beyond, were not spared! Haba!
Time is here, for our brilliant security chiefs, and by
extension, our leaders at the helm, to roll their sleeves and put their
shoulders to the task of providing security for their citizens, all citizens’
rights; this is the only way they can hope to have votes cast for them in 2023,
by the living and healthy, and not by the dead. Like saying plainly that the
more lives you preserve, the more votes you will have to count!
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