SENSUAL TOUCH OF NATIONAL TERRORISM

I heard that scholar wrote and are still writing on terrorism
I have seen writers write on terrorism
I have seen and read articles on terrorism
I have not written on terrorism
I have not felt direct pain of terrorism but I want to touch my own part of the elephant through the blind, with sensual touch and feeling of Herdsman Killing

Fulton Shen noted 'with all our knowledge of chemistry, we cannot make human life in our laboratories because we lack the unifying, vivifying principle of a soul which comes only from God. Life is not a push from below; it is a gift from above, it is not the result of the necessary ascent of man, but the loving descent of God. It is not the term of Progress; it is the fruit of incarnation'.

Truly in our country Nigeria and in most Nigeria northern cities today, life is so cheap. People are in oven of Herdsmen where they are baked as flour and roasted up as corns.
It is unsafe to walk in such traffic zone and evil to dwell there,
unsafe to work/walk in the day and a sin to lay your head to rest in the night

State of emergency is promulgated and everybody is deeply shelled:

Is there freedom of movement?
what of right to acquisition of properties?
Where is the pride of our fundamental human right?
Do students sleep safe at night after the day toil?

Nothing work, no security, no commerce, no development, no freedom, suffering everywhere,

stagnation; the day vocabulary,
poverty; order of the day,
Rife; new praxis,
Moral decay; phenomenon

without bearing, all these rule the day.

Given multiple factors, the nation has degenerated into a bombing/killing industry. This has honoured us with the global tag of TERRORIST NATION. Ironically, it has made our environment an abode of commercial display, a precinct of warmth welcome to strangers, a habitat of peaceful dwelling for the inhabitants and citizens, this has cut a large position of the national integration where all are now echoing for disintegration as a laudable objective in achieving sufficient peace. Right to life and property have being taunted by some bests of burden in form of terrorism under the disguise of politics and religion. It is an exigency of existence for Nigeria. Thus, it is a U-turn to Thamos Hobbes Analogy of man as wolf to Man. All pleading and reliance on law enforcement agencies are abortive.

Why and where do we run to? A question yet to be answered

Maybe to be answered when all of us both old and young must have returned to dust through the baking/roasting method.

In the midst of Jigsaw; politically, religious, ethnically and emotionally loaded and reloaded, the glorying entitlement to right to life, liberty, security, protection of law, freedom to live and travel anywhere within the country is shipwrecked and jeopardized and thus renders one a DUSTY MUSEUM PIECE. This present insurgency is the national matters arising before any other agenda. You wake up early in the morning to tune up your radio, the first thing you will hear is "Be vigilant and security conscious, report any ill movement to the security agencies around". Turning on your Television set at your place of work, the first news headline that appears on your screen is "herdsmen Attacked... Boko Haram killed 7 and 20 injured". At the course of the day, you go for National Newspapers the major caption on the first page is "5 were attacked by suspected Boko Haram.... Herdsmen invade Us at Night".

That not enough, you pick your phone only to hear your beloved one crying that he or she lost a dear one. Leaving the shores of the Nigeria thinking that one is free from such News, the trend continues. This time a thing of consumption fr the whole world with a more preferred and captivating caption "Borno State of Nigeria Topsy-Turvy exigencies"or "Nigeria's Plateau State in a dramatic roller coaster of Herdsmen". When shall all these come to halt.

It is nationally and globally mirrored that this blessed but cursed-caused nation is replete with terrorism. When Nigerians woke up in the early hours of about 5.15 am on April 25, 2016 and saw the bright future leaders of tomorrow bathed in their own blood, in Nimbo community, in Uzo-Uwani Council Area of Enugu State smoked out of fire, baked and roasted up with their decapitated heads and disconnected limbs, one is left with no comment but push down-drop of ears running down his cheek with no one to console him because all are under trauma. Indeed, only people who have hearts of stones will not weep at such horrific sight. Only those with no blood flowing in their veins will stiffly keep wide open their eyes waiting for a time to leave the scene and never to return back to the scene even in their memory.

From all reservations, those at the root of this insurgency are nothing but a fraction of Nigeria population. The question to be answered is CAN THIS BRUTAL ACT BE THE ONLY LAUDABLE METHODOLOGY IN ACHIEVING THEIR GOAL(S) (IF REALLY THEY HAVE) OR MAYBE THEY ARE LIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CHAUVINISTIC POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND THEORIES, GALADIATORIC DOCTRINAL/RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE OR RELATIONAL SUPERIORITY OF ETHNICITY?

It is in this myriad of problem that some begin to question their existence, for some their existence as pertain to their creator, for some, then omnipotence of their creator in this turmoil.

What is the fate of those who are not able and cannot be able to arrive at a conclusion but could not bear the pains?
What is the fate of those though arrived at the conclusion and bearing the pains but keep losing their beloved ones who can't bear such a pain thereby rendering them Orphans, Widows and Widowers?
What is the fate of those who even in bearing all these pains are waiting for their creator but no result is forth coming?

These and many more question tickle my thought, Still in this bedevilment, one suffers;

psychologically because his psyche is hunted. Spiritually because he is always on knees because of fear at the expense of his sole responsibility to work.
Morally because there is nothing like custom and order.
Physically because there is no movement, he sleeps with one of his eyes and ears open and feet eager to run when there is call, no development, he is stagnated at a place.
Socially, in in his dictionary of life, nothing like man as a social being, no social integration, he sees his fellow man as a wolf to him.

Still on the abuse on humanity, one laments: What is so jinxed about life? Life cannot be felt or touched, life is seen as nothing but topsy-turvy of religio-political reality, Life is no longer regarded as an alter of of the potency of God's aesthetic(as a creator) but now as an alter of blood consumption, man's slaughter. Life is rife. Life is no longer to be enjoyed in Itself but an amusement park of blood bathed individuals.

Option differs explosively regarding insurgency. For some, It is God sent and for the other populous, it is evil and has to be condemned. To a class of elite, it is a scandal of reason, moral, religion and faith. Which camp do you belong to? In all, by act of what binds us, it is glaring that we are all entitled to life, liberty, security, protection of the law, freedom to move, freedom to live wherever one one wishes and more freedom to school in peace.

TO THE GENTLE SOULS OF MY BELOVED BROTHERS ND SISTER WHO WERE THE VICTIMS OF THIS ABUSE, I WISH YOU ALL A PEACEFUL REST IN THE BOSOM OF GOD.

I say "The Falcon cannot hear the Falconer, things fall apart, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".