Nigeria’s government in the past few years have remained so easily predictable, particularly in the manner it relates with her citizens and the society.
Often, the country’s leadership very conveniently fritters opportunities for productive interface with her disgruntled citizens until the problem gradually slips into a mini war. Perhaps, there is something about Nigeria that simply ignores small disputes or agitations as a norm.
Let us look at these instances. The agitation by Niger Delta militants has been on even before Ken Sara Wiwa and eight others were killed by the Abacha Military government. In 1999 when Nigeria returned to democracy, the agitation continued with the government not even as much trying to hear the agitators out.
Boko Haram in the Northeast started like a joke around 2009. Government never took it seriously nor made any serious attempt to resolve the problem on the merits of the people dissent or grouse with the government of Borno state as it were, at the time.
Nigeria’s response pattern unequivocally reinforces the storyline that hostility is a credible alternative to securing one’s dividends of democracy from the government of Nigeria.
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