Presidency attacks Benue gov, says he is inciting farmers against herders, Christians against Muslims
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Insecurity is spreading and deepening the crisis across the nation. The authorities must act fast and stem the drift
In a joint public statement last week, 253 civil society organisations said Nigeria has lost over 2000 citizens to the worsening security crisis across the country in the first quarter of 2021. Many other stakeholders have voiced similar concerns. “Let’s not deceive ourselves; Nigeria is at war,” said Professor Pat Utomi, a political economist. “Unfortunately, the victims of that war, preponderantly, are the powerless, so we don’t count its toll well enough.”
For more than a decade, Nigeria has been grappling with a ruinous Islamist insurgency in the North-east. It has laid waste almost every economic activity in the zone, cost more than 100,000 innocent lives, and displaced millions of others. Despite the best efforts of the military, the insurgency is spreading to neighbouring regions and beyond. The Northwest, hitherto isolated from terrorist activitie