This one is heavy on my heart and I have to say it. Somewhere in Nigeria right now, a mother is crying. A father is pacing. A family is waiting for news about their child, their sibling, their parent who was taken by bandits and has not come home. Students are being kidnapped from schools. Teachers are being taken from classrooms. Farmers are being seized from their own land. These are not statistics. These are real human beings. Someone's child. Someone's parent. Someone's reason to wake up every morning. And our government? Silence. No emergency broadcast. No concrete rescue operation. No genuine outrage from the people we voted into power. Just occasional press statements that amount to nothing and then life continues as usual in Abuja. We voted these people in. We stood in queues, got our PVCs, and trusted them with power. Not so they could go and enrich themselves while our people suffer. Not so they could look away while armed men terrorize communities freely. What makes it worse is the rumour and in many cases the evidence that some of those in power have connections to these criminals. That some of the same people who should protect us are the ones protecting the bandits. If that is true, it is not just a failure of government. It is a betrayal of the highest order. These victims are not animals. They are Nigerians. They deserve protection, rescue, and justice. We must keep talking. We must keep demanding. Because silence is the only thing that benefits the people doing nothing. 🇳🇬
