Nigeria: Corruption, Bane of Insecurity

13 July 2012

The recent killings of two lawmakers, Senator Gyang Dantong and Assembly man, Gyang Fulani by Fulani herdsmen in Jos, Plateau state, have heightened fears that the issue of insecurity in our country is far more complex than it appears. The Boko Haram insurgence is just one out of many violent groups threatening the peace and security of the nation.

There is an international dimension to it. The assailants in the Jos massacre are believed to be aliens from Chad and Niger republic. Boko Haram is in league with Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab of the world's first failed state, Somalia. It is a sad irony that the law- makers and scores of others met their gruesome, untimely death during a funeral procession in the once peaceful Plateau city.

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