Thread by @ChiomaChuka

The government has failed on a lot of fronts, but the biggest of them is its inability to foster unity. From police brutality to herdsmen, RUGA, intra/inter-communal clashes, criminality of IPOB, excesses by Hisbah, the birth of Amotekun, etc. all have served to amplify disunity.

Unfortunately, we're facing each other, instead of asking our government hard questions, absolving them of the responsibility to provide an urgent account of their stewardship as far as protecting lives and aspirations is concerned.

Think about it. Where is the intelligence?

What is the strategy to resolve clashes between geopolitical zones? What is the strategy for Boko Haram that was 'technically defeated' 5 years ago? What is the plan to cripple the growing kidnapper ecosystem? Where are we going with the devaluation of the naira? Answers, anyone?

This joke is on us fa; kvetching while our politicians stash their families in countries that work, surround themselves with the few security folks in an under policed nation, and bump fists at events because they're protecting each other's interests. They're fine, we're not!

Somehow we've accepted that governance will shut down next year as politicking begins fully. Are we even being governed at the moment? And why should it shut down? How did we get to the point where this kind of behaviour is acceptable? Especially for a country in dire straits?

Look at #StateOfEmergencyGBV that everyone and their chicken declared last year. Where is justice for Barakat, Vera, for 3-year-old Esther raped by a 70-year-old man? For the 12 boys sodomised by one man? What palpable steps can we point to that show the government is serious?

I don't have any grand ideas, but just hoping folks take a minute to reflect. Things are bad; leadership across ALL the political parties is abysmal; where is the bar? We're going on and on about inanities when we should be questioning the people we elected. I don't know again.