Citizens Reports
Wong Box, a human rights activist in Delta State, wrote:
Every time that there’s intelligence, every time there is heightened security alert, every time the government says we’re on top of the situation, ask yourself, why does it keep happening?
Why do these attacks in Northern Nigeria keep coming? And, in some occasions, southern Nigeria. Why does it keep on coming back? Why do these terrorists always seem to be a step ahead of our people?
It is because the insecurity in Nigeria is now a business. Yes! I said it. It is a business from top to bottom.
Some so-called leaders are, they are not solving the security issues. They are not solving it. They are feeding from it.
Some local actors, some officials, some people that are in power, they are benefiting from this chaos, this insecurity in Nigeria. Because when there is fear, there is money. When there is crisis, there is control.
And do you expect this same system that profits from insecurity to end insecurity?
What are the governors doing with security votes that they collect monthly? Think! Think about it.
You are rehabilitating….., imagine the government rehabilitating former insurgents; absorbing them into the military. But have you fixed the root causes? Have you been able to dismantle the network of Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits and all that? Have you succeeded in this? Or are you recycling the same threat in different uniforms?
And let’s not pretend that this is only a local issue. Global powers are playing games with us in Africa. Funds are flowing, interests always clash, and countries like Nigeria and some few other sub-Sahara African countries become the battlefield.
Remember the case of USA that Donald Trump revealed. Listen carefully, this problem is not unsolvable. It requires real strategy, real intelligence and real accountability. Not press releases, not sympathy speeches, not recycled promises.
I am not here to sugarcoat anything. I am telling you the truth that others are afraid to say. Nigeria does not need more talks. Nigeria needs bold decision. Nigeria needs leaders who are not afraid to expose the truth – to dismantle corruption networks and to end this business of bloodbath, this business of insecurity.
Until that happens, don’t let anyone deceive you, this is not insecurity, this is a system that’s feeding on itself. And if we don’t confront it now, we will all pay the price. Thank you.
My name is Comrade Victor Ojei, popularly called Wong Box, the lead activist of Young Nigerian Rights Organization.
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