For those of you thinking that US President Donald Trump is after President Bola Tinubu, please stop! The situation is dire and needs urgent action and not showmanship or political posturing.
It is not everything that should be politicized and tribalised. I remember writing an article pointing out the consequences of the decimation of Christians in parts of the North. The current development is one of them.
I pray our government takes more serious action to contain the killings. I pray the US intervention is avoided. Not by unleashing paid press agents on the US president. But by conscious diplomacy and tact.
I admit that both Muslims and Christians have been killed by bandits and criminals in parts of the country.
But more Christians have lost their lives in the Middle Belt where thousands have been gruesomely killed by armed Fulani bandits with the active connivance of the Miyetti Allah group.
I believe something has to be done to stop the massacre. Time for posturing and pretence is over.
A situation where bandits are allowed to attend negotiations with some state governments in parts of the North with their full arms is unhelpful. It shows unseriousness and unwillingness to confront the situation.
For state officials to attend weddings and ceremonies organized by bandits in the forests, as seen in parts of the North, shows the government is complacent and playing with fire.
Absorbing the so-called repentant Boko Haram bandits into our army is an insult to all of us. They are known to have leaked military counter attack plans to bandits and that in turn led to more killings of soldiers deployed to contain them.
Soldiers welfare has been treated with levity. Time to take that more seriously.
I admit this crises did not start with the Tinubu administration. But, he is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria right now. He is in charge. Let him take charge.
Allowing non-state actors like Reno Omokri to be adding salt to injury with their lackluster defense of the genocide allegation is an insult to all right thinking citizens.
This time does not call for grandstanding or diplomatic reciprocity; it calls for calm and responsible diplomacy.
Government should get more serious.