When we are done making jokes.
Let us remember that a plane crashed in Edo State Nigeria.
There was no emergency evacuation.
There was only 1 fire truck, No ambulances in sight, No airport police, nothing looks like if anyone was hurt with serious injuries they had a chance at survival.
People were seen walking on muddy road paths to get away from the wreckage.
This is Nigeria.
This is our reality.
Hope everything our leaders are doing is being recorded in our history books.
No be only “who stopped the killings of twins in Calabar” we go dey read o.
The President who maintained the price of fuel at N87 per litre was called incompetent.
Meanwhile, the one who took it to N1,350 is called the master strategist.
I went to secondary school in Barkin Ladi 20 years ago. This is what SS1 - 3 boys were doing, night shifts in the blistering cold. I did it too. My mates in Oyo were sleeping or studying. I’ve watched this shit deteriorate in real time.
Barkin Ladi now looks nothing like it did when I graduated 14 years ago. I went to the same junction we used to buy stuff during outings last year & I was shaking. They don’t speak the same language. Crisis after crisis. Slowly, the people who used to till those lands are now doing menial jobs in the south. The names of the villages have changed. The senator representing that region was killed few days after I graduated when he attended a mass funeral of people who were massacred by the Fulanis who now occupy their homes. 14 years ago guys.
Trying to raise awareness about this state-backed conquest feels like screaming under water.
Few months ago, my aunt in mangu came to ask for money to trade cause she can’t farm anymore. Their farms were attacked 3 years ago. They wouldn’t dare go back.
For more than 10 years, we’ve had internally displaced persons from Borno living in our house, after my mother took them in. They only go back to their so-called homes for funerals. 3 brilliant kids; Elizabeth, Margaret and Grace (named after my now late mother for her benevolence). The dad does security work, the mom cleans. Who knows what they could’ve made of themselves back home? I do, they’d have been compost for aliens.
It always starts small then it spirals out of control. We’ve seen all kinds of terror. I wish they just came and shot people but that’s not fun enough. Bullets are for runners. They’ll slice pregnant women open to kill their fetuses. They’ll feed women their kid’s fingers. They burn people alive, hack them with machetes. When people try to defend themselves, that’s when soldiers come in. They call it farmer-herder clashes. They say cattle was rustled. Cattle was rustled? That’s why you renamed my village and put 200 people in a mass grave ?
I remember @YarKafanchan saying that she wept after the 2015 elections cause she knew her people would die like flies & then what happened in southern kaduna? When people talk, they say where’s the evidence? But what about the bodies? Dying is a morbid thing to be skilled at but boy, we have experience.
We’ve seen “strategists” platform them and defend all manner of wrongdoing on the alter of political correctness.
Omoh, let me just stop here.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
America understands something Nigeria still refuses to take seriously:
Crime leaves patterns.
A gun is not just a weapon. It is evidence. It carries a history.
In the United States, when a firearm is used in a shooting in Tennessee, the shell casings can be entered into a federal ballistic system known as NIBIN. If that same gun resurfaces months later in Montana, Texas or Chicago, investigators can link both crimes together through ballistic markings left behind on the cartridges.
That means one gun can expose an entire network of crimes across multiple states.
This is not Hollywood science fiction. It is real forensic infrastructure.
Nigeria barely has that conversation.
The same rifle used to slaughter villagers in Benue could easily appear weeks later in a kidnapping operation in Kaduna, then resurface in an armed robbery in Calabar, and nobody in the system would know. Not because the criminals are geniuses. But because the state is blind.
No integrated national ballistic database.
No unified forensic intelligence structure.
No serious interstate crime linkage system.
No modern evidence-driven policing culture.
Everything is reactive.
A massacre happens.
Politicians visit.
Statements are released.
Then silence.
Meanwhile the weapons keep moving.
What makes this even more dangerous is that Nigeria’s security crisis is no longer isolated. Armed robbery, banditry, terrorism, cult violence, farmer-herder killings and organized kidnapping are all bleeding into one another. Criminal groups share routes, suppliers and weapons.
Yet investigations in Nigeria still largely depend on confessions, eyewitnesses and random checkpoints instead of intelligence fusion and forensic tracing.
America’s system is not perfect. Far from it. But one thing they understood decades ago is that data matters. Patterns matter. Jurisdictional cooperation matters.
Nigeria operates like 36 disconnected islands pretending to be one country.
A criminal can commit murder in one state and practically reset his identity by crossing into another jurisdiction. Records are poorly digitized. Case files disappear. Evidence handling is inconsistent. Intelligence sharing is weak.
And when a country cannot track weapons, it eventually loses the ability to track violence itself.
That is the terrifying part.
Because insecurity is no longer just about bad people carrying guns.
It is about a state that still does not have the institutional memory to follow those guns after the blood dries.
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You people are having fun and feeling smart dropping political think pieces. You think it's a game. People are suffering out there. Business are closing. Families are struggling to eat one meal. Everybody is begging. No sector is working. Omo. God abeg
For the defeatists, three things:
- The shege BAT is showing us will continue. It is by design. It will continue until elections. We will all feel it.
- After some of us have done the work of ensuring we can have credible and safe elections in 2027, you will come out and you will vote Peter Obi. I’m not worried.
- But for now, please just stop congratulating BAT on his ‘strategy’. This is not a video game. People aren’t numbers on the screen. People are dying, unsafe, starving. We don’t have light. They’re stealing us blind. A lot of people are not thriving because institutions are underfunded while government officials live in largesse.
It needs to stop.
My God. College graduates are running for congress in the US because it costs almost nothing to do.
You as an ordinary citizen should be able to contest for the presidency.
The 100m bottleneck in the world’s poverty headquarters should concern you.
It means you can never be president and whoever can afford that would most likely be corrupt.
But all that is okay to you as long as it gives you a chance to take digs at Peter Obi.
Sigh
Peter Obi won before with less odds. He’ll win again. I just need you people to not give up on him every eke market day because you heard something from someone. God! Spines, people! Do we have them?
80 FUCKING YEARS
MATE WE ARE FUCKING 30+ AND 40+ MAKING A CASE FOR AN 80YO MAN??
THIS MAN GOT INTO MAINSTREAM POLITICS YOUNGER THAN WE DID.
FUCK YOU ALL AND FUCK HIM!!!