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Dear President @MBuhari @NGRPresident @ProfOsinbajo @NigeriaGov,

The tempo is still on, until we see changes. We are still pained with your failure to handle the deteriorating state of security in thr North, the zone that gave you the highest votes.
These are recent mass graves in Faskari local govt of Katsina state. These disturbing videos & images were shared with me by a resident of Daudawa town, in Faskari local govt. Poor women & children have fled villages for fear of more attacks. If @GovernorMasari can't do anything,
declare state of emergency in the state. Is this what @OfficialAPCNg will pay us with? Is this what PMB & his govt will pay us with? We do not see the will to fight banditry as we saw in you leaders the will to fight #Covid_19. Is that because the banditry begins & ends on the
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Following the verified reports of insecurity ravaging parts of Arewa communities, we want to in commemoration of #DemocracyDay remind the govt of Nigeria about the sanctity of lives and properties which they swore under oath to protect #NorthernLivesMatter
It’s common knowledge from the election stats that Arewa gave @MBuhari the largest number of votes in the last election that brought him to power with its sole interest of seeing the improvement of Security situation in the North which was at its worse ever since amalgamation
Truth be told, success was recorded in the first phase of COIN in the North east, attacks on soft targets, bombings of religious sites, markets, schools and others soon became the thing of the past and were reduced to the bearest minimum, road blocks were off the streets...
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If these guys are bandits best believe that people in the community know them. Politicians and people in high places know them. The traditional leaders know them. The motor bike sellers, repairers, part sellers, petrol stations where the fuel the bikes..
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Markets where they buy consumables and food. This is a failure of governance at all levels. Policing is not supposed to be post mortem, officers are meant to pre-empt crime. The central police structure can no longer effectively forestall crime in a dynamic, multi ethnic..
Multi-cultural society like Nigeria. The FG should adopt state policing. The state governors should divert the huge civil servant wage bill to security + security votes.

Let the communities police themselves.
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When Boko Haram were killing people during GEJ's Administration, we were wholeheartedly throwing tantrums and puffs at the then administration without even having an elucidation of what was really happening.....

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...just because it started from Borno and Yobe that happen to be Northern States with high Muslim residents ratio whereas the then President was a Christian.
But the question here is that;
-Were BH fighting the then govt or a religious war btw Muslims and Christians?
-Were BH trying to establish a purely ISLAMIC STATE in the region by attacking both the Muslims and Christians?
-Can we even count how many Islamic Scholars were murdered by this So_Called Jihadists?
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