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The North seems to be in a state of flux due to the frightening state of insecurity in the last few weeks with many senior citizens expressing frustration and despondency. KUNLE ODEREMI reports on the worrisome situation.
THE North is in pains. That axis of Nigeria has become a veritable zone of death; death in the hands of hardened criminals. Terrorists, bandits, armed robbers, kidnappers, abductors and cattle rustlers are on the prowl almost on a daily basis and at an incredulous rate and rapidity.
The high and the low in the region are furious; they are fuming because the authorities at different levels of government and agencies, as well as the security apparatus appear overwhelmed by the mindless killings, maiming, arson and other forms of threats to lives and property currently going on in the North. The gamut of the challenges, especially the harvest of deaths, has led to thousands of residents fleeing from their traditional homes and communities. Indeed, in the last