As Sri Lankan Police Chief Resigns Over Bombings, Who Bites The Dust Over Zamfara Genocide In Nigeria ?
The Oasis Reporters
April 26, 2019
Security lapses seem to have been the factor behind the horrific killings of Christian worshippers at Easter in the predominantly largely Muslim nation of Sri Lanka with a small but significant Christian minority, separated by colossal Hindu nation of India, from the other Muslim country of Pakistan.
Yet, Sri Lanka’s Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, resigned over failures that led to the deadly Easter bomb attacks, the country’s president said Friday.
“The IGP has resigned. He has sent his resignation to the acting defence secretary. I’ll nominate a new IGP soon,” President Maithripala Sirisena told reporters.
In other words, the next IGP has to make sure that nobody gets hurt due to security lapses again in other for him to keep his job. It doesn’t matter if the victims are non Muslims or foreigners. The most important thing is that they are citizens or residents. The hallmark of a modern society that believes in the principle of needing each other and watching each other’s back.
Sirisena’s nominee has to be confirmed by a constitutional council.
The resignation comes after the country’s top defence ministry official, defence secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned on Thursday, according to an AFP news report.
But what happens in Nigeria?
There has been horrendous massacres of local Hausa natives and other people in Zamfara state, a largely Muslim agrarian state, with the least indices in education generally and the highest rate of poverty. Scandalously, the nation’s Defense chief is from that state. And also a prince of one of the ruling Fulani emirates in the state.Curiously, they all seem sadly helpless in stemming the tide or stopping the beastly murders in the state.
A protesting citizen of the State, international radio and television journalist, Kadaria Ahmed who beamed the torchlight on the massacres has accused them all of abandoning the state to remain in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, including the state governor, Abdullaziz Yari.
Kadaria Ahmed states further on Arise TV that the murderers are dispossessed young Fulani, who rather than tend to vanishing cattle, rustle them or hire themselves out as willing guns to prospectors of the Zamfara gold rush. She too is ethnic Fulani, a descendant of Fodio who led a jihad in Northern Nigeria, over two hundred years ago.
Killings out there in Zamfara state. Kidnappings and huge ransoms all over Nigeria, displacement of poor farmers coupled with death and destruction in the Middle belt region of the country, yet nobody resigns over the appalling security situation in Nigeria.
Nigerians feel right now that they are Sri Lankans, where leaders take responsibility. But in Nigeria, it is excuses.
