NGMI

When people say #Nigeria is #NGMI (not gonna make it), it is this that they’re inadvertently talking about.

Consider this.

Scores of people were killed in Benue over the weekend. Our President has not said anything about fishing out the perpetrators and bringing them to justice; instead, he has “directed” “reconciliation”. Whatever that means.

There can be no forced “unity” when you have so many aggrieved people whose very soil is filled with the blood of their relatives, crying out for vengeance.

There can be no “faith” when the system, from the very top, and as a matter of routine, lets the people down.

Without “unity and faith”, there definitely can be no “peace”, and without “peace”, forget any dream (or nightmare) of “progress”.

The killings in Nigeria have gone on for too long without anyone being held responsible. This has given the killers an earned sense of impunity, and the victims a justified sense of continuing loss.

As always, it’s a matter of when, not if, the aggrieved will seek their own “justice”, and as with these things, that “justice” will be random, collective, and above all, indiscriminate.

No, Nigeria’s future is bleak unless we break the wheel and dispense justice regardless of ethnicity or religion.