Deborah is not the first to be killed in such circumstances by the sociopathic foot soldiers of the “owners of Nigeria” and certainly will not be the last.
By Nnamdi Okosieme
The killing of Deborah Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, on Thursday for allegedly “making blasphemous statements about Prophet Muhammad, is difficult to accept.
It happened because successive governments in Nigeria mollycoddled killers acting in the name of their god.
Deborah is not the first to be killed in such circumstances by the sociopathic foot soldiers of the “owners of Nigeria” and she certainly will not be the last.
It will continue until the political and academic elite of the faith whose adherents are serially butchered by these death vendors quit being politically correct and take serious action.
It is difficult to understand how people with completely different and antagonistic worldviews came to be yoked together.
How can people even see the taking of human life as normal? How can they live with themselves?
The northern elite, political and religious, must take responsibility. For years, they have used youths in the region to do their dirty political and religious jobs.
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They have deliberately denied them education in order to leave their minds primitive and malleable.
The Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and killings by herdsmen are all by-products of the deliberate strategic de-humanizing of northern youths by the political and religious elite of the region.
They have been indoctrinated, manipulated and de-humanized to the extent that they have lost that quality that differentiates man from animal.
It is clear from watching the video of Deborah Yakubu’s murder that only animals could hurl stones at a hapless, defenceless, and helpless young lady, bludgeon her to death and then proceed to incinerate her. All this in broad daylight and by individuals supposedly students of an institution of higher learning!
We are at a difficult time in our history. Men and women of conscience must speak up. This is not the time to sit on the fence neither is it time to be politically correct. A spade must be called by its name and not by anything else.
We must take heed lest this fire that has been ignited by the unthinking mass of indoctrinated youths, and stoked by a manipulative religious elite, spread and engulf this nation.
President Muhammadu Buhari, long accustomed to spitting fire without following up with action, must stand to his full height this time. He must show through the action he must take that he is not an enabler of evil.
Nnamdi Okosieme is a veteran Journalist
