Nigeria must be among the most battered nations, and its citizens among the most psychologically brutalized. The dangerous game the Nigerian elite play is coming to a head and it is time to bring this needless brinkmanship to a stop.
The two years since October 1, 2010 have ushered in one of the most divisive and self-destructive eras in our history. In that period, have witnessed the first bombing of Abuja, the nation's capital, hitherto considered the most secure city in the country; an election that was bitterly fought along sectional, ethnic and religious lines because politicians could not honour their word; communal warfare bordering on genocide and sectarian insurgency which has, so far, claimed thousands of innocent lives; not to talk of mind-boggling corruption, the intensity of which has not been experienced anywhere else in the world. We have brought more misery to this long-suffering nation and its people in these two years than other countries experience in an entire lifetime.
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