@Nig_Farmer It's kept this long so it can reach sexual maturity and is used for breeding. The value of the offspring it produces is usually worth the investment.
@daudaAliyu1@Nig_Farmer It's kept this long so it can reach sexual maturity and is used for breeding. The value of the offspring is usually worththe investment.
When 37 Die in a Cell, Outrage Must Not Blind Us to the Bigger War Over Nigeria’s Gold
Nigeria is once again in mourning. Thirty-seven suspected illegal miners arrested in Niger State were found dead in NSCDC custody in Minna after operations around the M.I. Wushishi and Lukoto axis. Officials first spoke of a suspected disease. Survivors and intelligence reports pointed instead to an overcrowded cell, heat, and little air. Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago confirmed that dozens were packed into one cell. The commandant was suspended. President Bola Tinubu ordered a full investigation and said no Nigerian should die in custody through negligence or abuse. That investigation must be thorough. Those responsible, if found guilty, must face the law. https://t.co/qOcD5XL0cQ
That is not the whole story. And it is not honest to pretend that it is.
For years, banditry, mass killings, kidnappings, and the looting of Nigeria’s minerals have torn through Niger, Zamfara, Kaduna, and other states. Villages have been emptied. Farmers have been driven off their land. Young men have been absorbed into a shadow economy where gold is dug without licence, sold without record, and used to buy guns. Illegal mining sites have become ungoverned spaces. Armed groups levy “protection” fees. Terror networks and criminal gangs exploit the same pits, the same routes, and the same desperation. That crisis did not begin this week. It did not begin with one cell in Minna. Yet that is the only part of the tragedy some people now want to discuss. https://t.co/rbgVLlEK32
The question is not whether the deaths in custody are acceptable. They are not. The question is why public anger is so selective. When communities in Shiroro, Munya, Rafi, and other mining belts bury victims of raids and abductions, the outrage often fades. When gold leaves the ground and the country sees little revenue, few people stay in the streets. When allegations circulate that powerful men—including retired military officers—sit behind some of the illegal operations, the conversation becomes careful. Then 37 detainees die after arrest, and suddenly everyone is an activist, and the target of choice is the President in Abuja. https://t.co/WLPG0YhcnO
That leap is political, not logical.
These men were arrested, not executed in the bush. If the intention of the state had been simply to wipe them out, there would have been no need to take them into a cell, record an operation, recover exhibits, or later suspend officers and order autopsies. Arrest is evidence that an agency was at least attempting enforcement. What followed in that cell whether suffocation, neglect, illness, chemical exposure from mining, or worse must be established by forensics, not by street rumour. But it does not follow that the President personally packed them into that room, or that the same government that ordered the arrests also ordered their deaths.
A darker possibility also exists, and it should be investigated without fear: illegal mining in Nigeria is not only the work of poor boys with shovels. It is a syndicate business. There are sponsors, buyers, transporters, and protectors. Some of those networks do not want talkative detainees. If non-state actors with an interest in those pits wanted silence, a crowded cell and a confused official story would serve them better than a public trial. That is an allegation, not a verdict. It is also more serious than the lazy claim that “Tinubu killed them.”
Nigeria cannot keep treating artisanal miners as either saints or villains and leaving the structure untouched. Many of those arrested are poor, some displaced, some teenagers looking for gold because the formal economy has failed them. Poverty does not cancel the law. But the law is a mockery if only the boys in the pit are rounded up while the men who own the pits, move the gold, and arm the corridors remain untouched. Reports and legislative allegations have for years pointed at elite protection of illegal mining.
@CFC_Janty It's not a fking gimmick. How hard is it for you all to understand. He's always been this way probably always will. Why should he change who he is bcuz u don't like it.
@FPLUpdates_Tips This is just crazy. Although i get y. Most people planned to sell bruno but after his performance they all chickenned out and the next best to move on was mbuemo. Especially with City and Chelsea players also being targeted by Early wildcarders
Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub in 1954.
Mental hospital. Declared better. Released.
Husband stayed. They had three more kids.
She drowned those three too.
Same house. Same bathtub. Same excuse. Six dead children because a system treated a child killer like a patient who just needed time.
That is the whole argument. Not “was she sad.” Not “did she hear voices.” What happens after you let them out, and who pays for it the second time.
Lindsay Clancy strangled her three kids. People are already writing her a sympathy card and calling prison cruel. Cruel is three little bodies. Cruel is doing it once and getting a path back to freedom. Cruel is pretending history didn’t already run this experiment and lose six kids.
Mental illness can explain how someone gets there. It does not give you a free murder. It does not entitle you to more children. And it does not require the rest of us to wait around and see if the next round dies too.
If you kill your kids, you don’t get to be a mother again. You don’t get a soft landing and a second family. Life without parole. Lock the door. Stop experimenting on other people’s children and making excuses.
Convict her. Convict those who harm children. Period.
@LetsTalk_FPL I tried so hard to get isak in. But it'll mean downgrading bruno or mbuemo. Both players i want more than isak. I recon I'll eventually sell bruno or haaland.
@Itz_Mickie_@WrestleFeatures They've been dropping some questionable ratings for a while now. But i was shocked to see their night 1 ratings.
Ridiculous.