Nigerian Press: You guys have started it again. Yes, enough of the biographies. Now is the time for real debates. A president’s pseudo convoy was attacked. Criminals let criminals out in Kuje prison. The security architecture is gone, from east to west, north and south. So, the moment is now: who can reverse this trajectory? Nigerians want to know – and the Press must help us.

Organize debates, fix dates, invite them, and if any decides not to show up, do not bother: Nigerians will take note. Please schedule at least three debates with the first one coming in September.

I want to see DEBATES. While debates may not be a barometer for good governance, debates push leaders to think over issues they will encounter on Day 1. Also, if there are debates, and in the process of preparing for them, politicians can build a team which can get to work on Day 1.

People, I want to see these men go into the debate ring, and make their points before Nigerians. This is a very important election as this is the first time in the history of Nigeria when the government has ceased to exist in many areas. I mean, no person expects the government to do anything, from printing simple passports to protecting them in their farms.

To avoid a repeat of this current paralysis, we need to ask these men questions: what are your plans? They must not be classified secrets at this phase of this national competition. We’ve read all those biographies. Now, we want to know the solutions they have for Nigeria? We want to know the plans instead of waiting for the package after the election!  NEVER again on the mistakes of old!

Nigeria’s security architecture is a pure yoyo. Otherwise, how can you explain that more than 300 terrorists could descend into a supposedly medium-security prison in the nation’s capital without being detected. I mean the possibility that those guys were able to organize, plan and execute this without being detected tells you that everyone living in Abuja needs a white flag. 

People theorize the mirage of 100 men on motorbikes kidnapping hundreds of people, moving from one location to another, in a nation with GSM telecommunication infrastructure, and no human can claim they know their whereabouts. Do they move as spirits? O di egwu.

But this Kuje prison breach tells me that indeed these terrorists are mystical – they are invisible to all and everyone including the specials who claim they sabi. And when you have those aliens, like in the Willie Willie  horror TV show (Hot Cash) of the 1980s, you wave white flags, to chill the rampaging spirit of Willie Willie!

“How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility? How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?

“I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organise, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it?” Nigeria’s president (Buhari) on visiting the prison

In the village those days, as kids, during moonlight plays, we would say “ojuju calabar is coming; run run run”. Get your white flag, you may need it as you run. Ogwu si go [it is finished] . But hope dey with 2023 on the horizon though!

(I am using Calabar in lowercase as I do not really know which Calabar is referred to there. But as an adult, I do think that the reference could be that Calabar supplies more than 60% of all masquerade designs, used during festivals, in most Igbo lands. And kids run when they see them. Being “imported” from Calabar could have connected that mystical play.)

2023 cannot be more important!

On Tuesday evening, terrorists attacked Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The attack was successfully executed through the use of explosives that altered the security of the facility.

According to the Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Magashi, about 600 inmates broke out of the Medium Security Custodial Centre. He told journalists that the attack was carried out by suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect.

“They came in with high explosives they attempted the initial entry with a very high explosive, but they were unsuccessful.

Boko Haram Breaches the Security of Kuje Correctional Center, Frees its Members

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