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The United States President, Mr. Donald Trump has shown deep concern about the killings in our country which he sees as having sectarian undertones. He has threatened to fly in his troops to smoke out terrorists and bandits, and their sponsors.
This has sent cold shivers down many a spine. On the surface, it may have struck alarm in our hearts, and rightly so as a nation. The zones and people under siege, under bombardment, unable to sleep, and from whose communities peace of mind and of the environment, has fled, can’t but be happy at the prospect of help, at Mr. Trump’s promise and possibility of deliverance. It is only natural.
Mr Trump was elected, despite his many flaws because the Americans were tired of Godlessness in their lives. The conservatives that constitute the soul of the Republicans had been complaining that liberal administrations had banished God from their lives, from schools of their children, and from public institutions. They said there were no longer Devotional Hours any longer in their schools, there were no prayers at public events.
They felt somehow that they had all the material comforts alright, technology has made life even rosier, there was emptiness in their lives. They recalled what they often said about themselves and what outsiders had been saying about their land, “God’s own country.” That it is a blessed land.
America is a settler nation, founded by those who fled from the crusade in Europe from 1095, the first formed to recapture Jerusalem for Christendom. Their inner beings had been sharpened and refined by the horrible experiences in Europe. Thus, when they got to America, with ardent longing for the ideal they consecrated the land and the blessings of the Lord poured to cover the land. The conservatives and Christian communities believed that they should return to the pristine values and make America Great Again.
They considered Trump, given his character, the most appropriate person to be in the saddle in the present time to restore God into their lives, and he must take more than passing interest in where the community of Christians are being threatened. What they had not witnessed for a long time, upon the results of the elections were announced and he was victorious, they went in for a thanks-given worship of the Most-High.
Hence, Trump’s resolve to stop the killings. Of course, there would be material interests, oil and solid minerals being disguised by some of the powerful forces behind him. Trump considers that as secondary. His primary aim is to protect his spiritual values that others profess and share with him. America must have a committed intelligence community in our land space. Trump says he knows the cells of the sponsors of the insecurity.
We cannot live in denial. The state of insecurity has been with us, with terrorists, bandits and kidnappers ravaging the land for about 16 years. Think of Chibok; more than 100 of the abducted girls are still in captivity. Some of the parents finding the experiences too nightmarish and suffocating have died. Think of Kajuru in Southern Kaduna, Benue, Jos, Nasarawa, Gombe, Zamfara, some areas of Kogi, the epicentres of insurgency and banditry, mostly in North Central, North Eastern and North-Western States. There have been reports that the insurgents have taken control of some communities and they collect tolls and taxes from them. We cannot live in denial.
I am not saying, from the foregoing that Trump should invade our country. Such missions leave the country worse than the rescuers met it. It will be recalled that when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait snuffing life of it, that country cried out for international help. The combined forces of Mr. George Bush and Tony Blair were sent. The experiences of the country, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan should be a lesson to us.
Saddam Hussein was eliminated all right, but the country has not been the same again. The focus of the rescue missions was on oil. The answer to all this is for the leaders to be more humane, compassionate, permitting the milk of human kindness to run in their veins.
The government should take the establishment of state police much more seriously. The government can no longer afford to remain distant from possible distress calls of their fellowmen, how much more from those who are unceasingly under siege. It is only to be expected that if we cannot put our house in order, and outsiders feel they would be impacted, it is natural they would want to get involved, especially where sectarian interests are affected.
Source: Guardian Nigeria | Read the Full Story…
