For Nigeria, it has arrived. ‘It’ is what Thomas Paine, an American philosopher, characterised in 1776 as “the times that try men’s souls.”” essay, he said: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
Think about it: A retired Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army is assassinated in the federal capital, and his sister kidnapped. In Abatete, Anambra State, the occupants of two SUVs are shot to death on an open street. In Sokoto, hundreds of bandits ride into a town on motorcycles, massacring soldiers, and civilians. In Kaduna, an emir is kidnapped along with 13 members of his family; as was the emir of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s own Daura two years ago.
The truth is that Nigeria has no security agencies; there are only agencies protecting the selfish interests of government officials. That includes being used to “pursue” anyone who objects to the narrow-minded and self-serving narrative of the Buhari administration. Predictably, the government then moved into trying to “regulate,”—that is, subjugate and control—the work of civil society organisations, inflicting savage restrictions on their formation, operation and reporting that do not exist for the government itself.
And in a supplementary budget only last week, the government allocated N4.8 billion to the National Intelligence Agency to monitor the digital communications of Nigerians: N1.93 provided for “WhatsApp Intercept Solution,” and N2.93 billion for “Thuraya Interception Solution.”
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