Once agains a mother cries. She has lost her child whose crime was being in<\/p>\n
the wrong place. The place where barbarians were.<\/p>\n
An Okada rider nearly hit a pregnant woman. That happens. Some people beat
\nand stabbed him. That happens. They should fear the law and be arrested. He
\nstabbed someone too. That happens; he should be arrested. Perhaps he died.
\nThat happens. It is unfortunate; whoever killed him should be arrested and
\nsentenced for manslaughter or murder. He may be killed or pay blood money.<\/p>\n
But what happens next in Nigeria is what worries the most. The barbarians
\nare unleashed. Blood-thirsty barbarians set out on a murder and vandalize
\nmission. Like canines, they lack color vision. They cannot differentiate
\nbetween the persons who committed the crime and everyone else who appears
\nto be of the ethnic group. The barbarians hunt in packs like dogs. They go
\nand burn shops of Hausa or shops of Yorubas or shops of Igbos. They believe
\nthey are exacting revenge by doing so. “After all it was one of yours.” I
\nwrote of this in 2013. I called it “Genocidal thinking
\n<http:\/\/ends.ng\/genocidal-thinking\/>.”<\/p>\n
An innocent man walks along in the wrong place at the wrong time. The
\nbarbarians find him. He appears to be of the group hunted. They pounce on
\nhim and set him ablaze. They howl like wilder-beasts as they drink his
\nblood.<\/p>\n
Others celebrate their actions from far off; some brother jackals online
\nrejoice. “They deserved it,” they say. “That group has bad eggs so they all
\ndeserve to be killed…why did one of ‘them’ do that? They all deserve
\ndeath. Kill them all,” the barbarian fans say.<\/p>\n
In Nigeria we have departed from God. We have forgotten God’s law that
\nsays, “whoever kills must be killed.” Boko Haram terrorists who kill en
\nmass are spared death; we give them life. We have violated God and violated
\nthe land. Indicted politician sponsors of terrorists and political killer
\nthugs are in our hallowed chambers. God’s wrath is on us; it is a promise
\nHe has made, that whoever departs from righteousness will get the painful
\nreward. Our wickedness has revealed us as beasts. Blood drinking barbarians.<\/p>\n
I had hoped Buhari would declare war on barbarism. It only takes one stern
\nannouncement, spread through all media channels, “*that the new government
\nwill not tolerate a single person or animal in human form taking the law
\ninto his own hands*.” Continues, “*from now on, terrorists, political
\nkiller thugs and mob murderers will be sentenced to death as the law
\ndictates.*” But Buhari hasn’t. In fact, he has even defended barbaric
\nbehavior by his military generals. “I am a sitting duck,” he says. “If not,
\nfor touching a soldier’s chest, those people would have suffered
\nmore”…than ‘just’ that massacre of 1000+ of their kind. In Nigeria, the
\nreward for a mis-endeavor or misdemeanor is instant barbaric judgement with
\nthe sentencing to death of you and your kind; delivered not by courts, but
\nby civilians or the military. Like I said earlier, courts give life to
\nterrorists. This is the way of Nigeria. The 100-year entrenched barbarism
\nthat started since colonization is far from its end.<\/p>\n
It is challenging to be a Nigerian. A citizen of a land of barbarians.<\/p>\n
Dr. Peregrino Brimah @EveryNigerian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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