2023: A year of kidnappings, killings, vultures circling dead bodies
The insecurity issues in 2023 turned different parts of the country into theatres of war, and the war rages into 2024.
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The insecurity issues in 2023 turned different parts of the country into theatres of war, and the war rages into 2024.
Yet again, Nigeria’s Middle Belt suffered another crude and devastating blow of terrorism. Nigerians in more than 20 communities in the Bokkos, Mangu (home of the state governor), and Barkin-Ladi in Plateau State lost lives, limbs, livelihoods, homes and sense of community in this digital age of the 21st Century.
I think it (Army) should go beyond paying the hospital bills. Some lost the lives of their breadwinners and should be compensated.
The continent witnessed its latest coup and the second one in 2023 on Wednesday when some military personnel in Gabon seized power and placed the ousted President, Ali Bongo, and his family members under house arrest. Gabon is in Central Africa.
Some retired military generals have warned the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government that the way to avert a coup in a country is for the democratically elected government to follow the constitution and promote good governance. The generals in an interview with PUNCH amid a wave of successful coup missions in some other African countries noted that while coups were not desirable, people no longer wanted to be taken for granted.