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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"d8VIfxkK" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Bala Ibrahim&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"zMH8pMfJ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In the famous Italian western movie of the sixties&comma; titled the Good&comma; the Bad and the Ugly&comma; Eli Wallace&comma; who played the Ugly under the name Tuco&comma; was enjoying a bubble bath in the bathroom&comma; when an enemy &lpar;Mario I suppose&rpar;&comma; that has long been out looking for revenge&comma; walked in&period; Seeing Tuco naked and presumably helpless in the water&comma; the enemy brought out his gun and started talking about how long he had waited for such a day to come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now he got him exactly in the position he wants him&comma; and surely the end for the poor Tuco&period; Unknown to him&comma; Tuco never leaves things to chance&comma; or trusts any one&comma; including himself&period; As he was busy making mouth and foolishly celebrating&comma; Tuco raised his gun from under the foam and shot him straight&comma; severally&period; While he was crawling on the floor from the devastation&comma; Tuco gave him another parting shot and said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;When you have to shoot shoot&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t talk&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; Nigeria under PMB is almost in a similar scenario&comma; as the government seems to be sliding towards slumber&comma; while the quantity and quality of the enemies are silently swelling&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"6qrIuCWE" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Organized crime syndicates are on the loose and on the increase&comma; through kidnaping for ransom&comma; attacks on the police and incessant agitations for the balkanization of the country&period; These tricks have succeeded in drawing the attention of the international community&comma; just as they are forcing some state governments to succumb&comma; or negotiate with the criminals&comma; by paying huge sums of money as ransom to secure the freedom of abducted school children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma;11&sol;05&sol;21&comma; PMB was compelled to preside over the National Security Council&period; It was the third in two weeks&comma; and the mission is simply to stem the tide of the unending insecurity situation in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Almost concurrently&comma; another security meeting was holding in the south&comma; by the governors of the southern region&comma; which had in attendance 13 state governors and two deputy governors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to their statement&comma; the southern governors meeting was to review the insecurity situation in the country&comma; as well as the secession agitations and restructuring&period; But from the emphasis and body language of the chairman&comma; who is the governor of Ondo state&comma; Rotimi Akeredolu&comma; they were more particular on open grazing of cattle&comma; which they linked to the incessant killings by armed herders&comma; and the movement of bandits to the Southern part of the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In summary&comma; a 12 point agenda was released&comma; with a ban on open grazing&period; According to them&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the population growth in the southern region has put pressure on available land&comma; and increased the prospects of conflicts between migrating herders and host communities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;05&sol;13&sol;eid-el-fitrkano-deputy-governor-felicitates-with-muslims&sol;">Eid-el-fitr&colon;Kano Deputy Governor felicitates with Muslims<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;The Federal Government should support willing states to develop alternative and modern livestock management systems&period; As such&comma; urgent and bold steps should be taken to restructure the Nigerian federation for it to make progress&period; There is the need for the evolution of state police&comma; review of revenue allocation formula in favour of the sub-national governments and creation of other institutions which legitimately advance our commitment to and practice of true federalism&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; on the same day&comma; the Pan Yoruba socio-political group&comma; Afenifere&comma; had a meeting&comma; wherein they called on PMB to resign with immediate effect&period; The group claimed that Buhari’s administration has failed to address insecurity and economic challenges confronting Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the south south&comma; tension is high and the bubble is about to bust&comma; over the reluctance of the president to direct Senator Godswill Akpabio&comma; the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to do the needful&comma; by inaugurating the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While this is happening&comma; in Akwa Ibom State&comma; of the same south south&comma; the Commissioner of Police&comma; Amiengheme Andrew&comma; was crying over the loss of 21 personnel&comma; 9 vehicles&comma; and 11 firearms as a result of the series of attacks by the Indigenous People of Biafra &lpar;IPOB&rpar;&comma; in conjunction with Eastern Security Network&period; &lpar;ESN&rpar;&period; The commissioner disclosed this when Governor Udom Emmanuel led members of his executive to the police headquarters to commiserate with them on the deaths of some operatives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the north&comma; Hakeem Baba-Ahmed&comma; the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum &lpar;NEF&rpar;&comma; was busy on air calling on members of the National Assembly to impeach the President&comma; because of his failure to solve Nigeria’s insecurity problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even at the doorstep of the President&comma; there was an attempted robbery on Monday&comma; where &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unknown” persons tried to burgle the residence of the president’s chief of staff&comma; Prof Ibrahim Gambari&period; Unknown persons&comma; with a known agenda&comma; I think&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the face of these challenges&comma; the government needs to go beyond the conventional and irritating rhetoric like the one coming out of the mouth of the minister for Information and Culture Lai Mohammed&comma; that the Nigerian government and its security personnel have the wherewithal to crush all forms of insecurity in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; the nation would appreciate it more&comma; if the National Security Adviser&comma; Gen&period; Monguno would allow the security chiefs to do their job&comma; without the repeated&comma; unending&comma; boring&comma; and tiresome public statements&comma; that never yielded any positive result&comma; viz&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the president has directed us to go after the criminals&period;&&num;8221&semi; Gen&period; Monguno has said this times without number&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For God’s sake&comma; in the first place&comma; what were you employed to do&quest; Pamper the criminals&comma; or go after the law abiding citizens&quest; And do you need the president to tell you this&comma; or direct you every day&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When you have to shoot shoot&comma; don’t talk&comma; please&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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