22/09/2025
🌄MONDAY MUSING 🌄
A REPUBLIC OF TEARS - THE UNFOLDING NIGERIAN TRAGEDY:
Nigeria today stands as a wounded giant, bleeding in silence, staggering under the weight of devastating neglect, and overwhelmed by the uncertainties of her time. From the savannahs of Benue to the farmlands of Enugu, from the forests of Zamfara to the streets of Abuja, insecurity has become the daily hymn of the land.
We have gradually degenerated into a society where values once attached to human life have completely waned. Death, which ought to be solemn and exceptional, now trails our people like shadows. Citizens are slaughtered like fowls, and their deaths reported in the dailies as mere statistics. People step out of their homes each morning unsure if they will return alive.
Just last week in Enugu, a security guard attached to the home of a Deputy Inspector-General of Police was reportedly killed. Before investigations could even begin, the same assailants, reported to be rampaging Fulani herdsmen, struck again, this time cutting down a Catholic priest in cold blood. The audacity of such repeated bloodletting reflects a nation where the sanctity of life has lost its sacredness.
Benue State presents an even grimmer picture. The killings there have become so commonplace that unless the death toll rises above twenty, it hardly attracts national outrage. In communities across the state, daily attacks are silently erasing whole villages, as though an annihilation agenda is at play. Tragedy has become normalised.
This is the same Nigeria where millions groan under the weight of hunger, with no assurance of their next meal. A society where young people, the so-called “leaders of tomorrow”, chase crumbs in desperation, and many willingly sing praises of their oppressors both online and offline. It is a land where the majority now live below the poverty line, stripped of dignity and reduced to survival instincts.
Governance has become a theatre of ceaseless collapse. Policies are churned out without vision, while laws, once designed as the shield of the oppressed are now twisted into the armour of the corrupt. In some districts within the seat of power itself, criminal abductions occur almost daily, yet we are expected to pretend that all is well.
But history has taught us otherwise. The great nations we admire today were built not because their leaders were saints, but because the people demanded accountability, held fast to justice, and insisted that no citizen’s life was expendable. Nigeria, sadly, is walking the dangerous path of countries that allowed misrule, neglect, and insecurity to hollow them out until collapse became inevitable.
Citizens weary and frustrated, still deserve hope. It is time to rise, to demand governance that works, to insist on accountability, and to reawaken the spirit of collective responsibility.
The Nigerian state must prioritise human life above all else. Security must stop being lip service; it must become actionable.
Leaders must be compelled, by civic pressure, law, and institutions, to answer for their failures.
YOUTH REAWAKENING: Our young people must stop defending their killers and oppressors. Instead, they must unite, organise, and champion reforms.
REBUILDING VALUES: National rebirth begins with restoring respect for life, justice, and dignity. Without this, no economic or political policy can stand.
And while we push for reforms, let us pray:
May God preserve the hapless citizens who face hunger, fear, and violence daily. May He comfort the bereaved, protect the vulnerable, and grant leaders the courage to choose justice over corruption, peace over chaos, and life over death.
Signed:
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq. (KSC)
September 22, 2025
