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Many things in life defy basic understanding, rationality, or explanation. Some puzzles defy solution no matter how hard you try to figure them out. Sometimes, the search for answers to some contradictions numbs sensitivity. However, the man with a balanced conscience must resist the temptation to reconcile some anomalies with sensitivity.
We must therefore continue to ask questions, to challenge the authorities, to ask more questions and to upset the apple cart. In the name of heaven and all the elementals that control creation, how did Nigeria come to the conclusion that terrorists and bandits should be spared, forgiven, rehabilitated and treated as heroes? As? The thought of this reality violates the moral canvas of an enlightened person.
I need someone to explain to me the origin of the law that provides for the saving and rehabilitation of terrorists and bandits in Nigeria. For the sake of one’s mental health, one will simply admit the legitimation of terrorism and banditry as part of the many inconsistencies that define Nigeria’s existential order. But state approval of evil should never make evil an acceptable social norm. Whatever the origin of the state-permitted rule that terrorists and bandits should be pardoned and reintegrated into society, it is revoltingly odious. This rule is at the heart of ongoing terrorism and banditry in the country, and the government is responsible for it.
The Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is helpless, hapless and confused about the insecurity situation in the country. Of course, insecurity is not a new phenomenon in Nigeria.
This did not begin three years ago when President Bola Tinubu took the reins of power, but he maintained his honor and promised Nigerians that he would end insecurity in his first year in office. On such occasions, his audience applauded timidly like people without the slightest hint of discernment. We can excuse the current administration for inheriting insecurity from previous governments in the country, but we must hold this government accountable for failing abysmally to adequately address insecurity.
What are the key issues? Some demented scoundrels, non-state actors obviously sponsored and protected by powerful forces, have continuously wreaked havoc in Nigeria through terrorism, banditry and other murderous acts. Farmers were killed in the most gruesome manner. The soldiers were beheaded and the videos were streamed on social media.
Pregnant women have been brutally murdered and their fetuses forced out of their biological comfort zones. For terrorists and their supporters, it is a festival of killings, beheadings and massacres of Nigerians, regardless of ethnicity or social standing.
It is difficult to convince anyone that the Federal Republic of Nigeria and all its sophisticated security apparatus cannot put an end to terrorism and banditry in the country. The big question is: why do the army and other security services make an effort to arrest terrorists and bandits, since they would be summarily released after capture? These are some of the contradictions that have no explanation in our country. What is the rationale behind the rehabilitation of terrorists who rape and massacre innocent and defenseless Nigerians? At the risk of painting a gory picture or evoking offensive images, terrorists and bandits should all be openly beheaded or buried in a mass grave. They deserve nothing less. But for some impenetrable reasons, the Nigerian state has determined that these demons deserve forgiveness and mercy. Nothing could be more gutting.
If the Nigerian government validates the rule that terrorists and bandits should be pardoned and rehabilitated, then why does the same government waste scarce public funds to fight the same terrorists and bandits?
Tragically, Nigeria’s National Security Advisor (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, said terrorists and bandits are “our brothers” and so we must show them some love. Similarly, Katsina State Governor Dikko Raddar also called terrorists and bandits our “brothers and sisters”. Accepting these claims without connecting the dots and taking immediate action grates on the collective pulse of a nation. How any sane person would refer to demons in human skin as brothers and sisters, or even as friends, defies reasonable explanation.
Currently, innocent schoolchildren who do not know their rights from their wrongs, along with their teachers, are held captive by “our brothers and sisters” inside a forest. The same “brothers and sisters” beheaded a math teacher simply because he was a teacher. The same group of “brothers” raped minors, pregnant women, mothers, women and even sodomized young boys in the forest. However, we must dress them in expensive uniforms, house them in the best hotels, feed them expensive diets and reintegrate them into society, among rational minds. It is the Nigerian delusion that we must fight terrorists and bandits while preparing parties and celebrations for them. Ours is in fact a country of bloody contradictions.
Since the Nigerian government has decided to pardon terrorists and bandits and rehabilitate them, we must without delay extend the frontiers of sinister and malevolent permissiveness.
If the terrorists and bandits who commit all the envisaged crimes were pardoned and rehabilitated, no Nigerian would deserve to be in prison or suffer any form of imprisonment. It is an Olympic-level injustice to send people to prison for starvation-induced thefts, minor infractions, and dubious commitments, while murderers and enemies of the state enjoy state-sponsored luxury. All prisons in Nigeria should be razed to the ground and prisoners should be able to return to their families.
Armed thieves, internet scammers, rapists, drug addicts, street vendors, ritualists and other forms of heinous criminals must be released immediately. We must dance naked in front of the entire world and let them know that our country is a space reserved for vile rules and despicable developments. Government must stop misleading Nigerians with the rhetoric of fighting terrorism and banditry because there is no genuine intent to wipe out criminals.
In the past, I read about how some army officers captured some terrorists and bandits, but they received instructions from a higher authority that the terrorists and bandits should be released immediately. This is the reality in our country, yet we are regaled with stories of fighting terrorism and banditry in the country. In November 2025, Major General Musa Uba was captured and killed by terrorists.
According to reports, after conducting a successful joint air-ground offensive in the Sambisa forest axis, suspected saboteurs within the ranks leaked its vital security data.
The terrorists then ambushed his convoy and tracked him down after he mysteriously became separated from his troops. The manner in which Uba died leaves a bad mark on the memory of our nation. “Our brothers” killed him and posted the video on social media. We must show love to the killers and rehabilitate them, while Uba’s wife and children are devastated for the rest of their lives. Recently, former Director of Defense Information, Major General Rabe Abubakar and his wife, Hajiya Abubakar, were kidnapped by terrorists and bandits in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State. General Rabe Abubakar died under circumstances shrouded in mystery. Congratulations to “our brothers”. Nigeria, we salute you!!!
The Nigerian government must be intentional, determined and sincerely committed to fighting terrorism and banditry in the country. It defeats every rationale that people who massacre Nigerians, including women and children, kill Nigerian Army officers and virtually question the sovereignty of the country, should be pardoned and rehabilitated.
This subtle legitimation of evil in our country must be revisited and repealed immediately. The laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria regarding murder, rape, theft, kidnapping, sodomy and other various crimes should not stop when terrorists and bandits are involved. The activities of these monsters currently threaten the continued existence of Nigeria, therefore government must be decisive in addressing the issue.
Goodluck Jonathan once claimed that Boko Haram apologists and sympathizers had infiltrated his government. On December 25, 2011, Kabiru Sokoto bombed St. Teresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla and killed dozens of worshipers. Sokoto was eventually found in the official lodge of the then governor of Borno State and current Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima. Although the complicity of government officials in terrorism and banditry cannot be ruled out, as Jonathan stated, the government will henceforth have to be brutal in the fight against terrorists and bandits.
Eliminating thousands of “our brothers” should be legitimate to save millions of people in the country. Today, no one remembers General Olusegun Adeniyi, a fine military officer and former theater commander of Operation Lafiya Dole. He was court-martialed and demoted for making a video and reporting to his chief of defense staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, that Boko Haram had more sophisticated weapons and had killed more than fifty officers under his command. General Adeniyi called for reinforcements to fight terrorists and bandits, and this was his sin. When Nigeria decides to decimate terrorists and bandits, the world will know. For now it’s a circus and the government must answer for it
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