By Sule Lamido
Even in our civil war time Nigeria had a standing in the world and is fully respected.
Just stop for a while and think of Nigeria of today where fellow human beings are screened out on tribal basis in a market place in the domain of the Caliphate and slaughtered in their tens; a bus on a highway is bombed or stopped and all the passengers burnt to ashes; worshippers in a mosque or church are slaughtered with glee; citizens both the low and the high have been turned into articles of merchandise through kidnapping; a market where human parts ( eyes, tongue, heart etc) are offered for sale; railway track bombed to stop trains to be robbed; the main highway linking our Capital Abuja to the North and neighboring countries of Tchad, Niger Cameroon Republics is shut down by bandits for four days, the list of evils goes on and on, what else can one say? As a people we have simply put, lost our Human essence!
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I am not a Mallam but i believe Allah in His mercy elevated Human beings over and above all His creations and conferred it with intellect and the power to think and rationalize with the ability to know right and wrong over and above all creations (the heavens with all the galaxies, the earth and all it’s contents)! Allah by His mercy also covered the human brain with a thin membrane so as to repel and deflect all evil and satanic thinking from getting into our heads! By the sordid occurrences of events today, it is conceivable that the thin membrane covering and protecting Nigerian heads has torn away and every evil and Satanic thinking is feasible and admissible! Otherwise how can the current insanity now be accepted and settled as our new normal?
Please Allah, we are on our knees, forgive us!
Sule Lamido is Former Governor of Jigawa state and a one time Nigeria’s Minister of foreign affairs from 1999-2003
