AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

terrorism and how it operates. We know kidnapping and robbery and how they operate. We know mass
abduction and how it is operated. Above all, we know which of these wings occurs in its natural form
and which are not real, no matter how close they may be to reality. The abduction of Dapchi school
girls and Chibok girls were mere theatrical acts. That it was not acted on a stage before
An audience in a theatre does not make it real. The script writer, other new members, and the
characters of the Dapchi school girl’s abduction must have learnt lessons from the Chibok saga which
was of a twin nature as that of the Dapchi. In the case of Chibok, the act suffered a breach of trust that
is why the falcons refused to hear the falconers. The result of that we all know. The retention of an
innocent victim, Leah Shuaibu, by the villains of Dapchi playlet is to boost bargaining power. And so,
is that of the Chibok girls. Tempering with their faith is unacceptable. It is a show of immaturity and
stands condemned. Innocent children born into the world to add value to it have their feelings and
thought processes victimized by all kinds of violent treatments. Their fault is because they were born in
a country where everyone is a victim of every kind of senselessness. But that is what one gets when
one is born in a country where the political class use human lives as play cards in the game of selfish
interest. The feelings of everyone gets inflicted with unabated pains that hurt like flames of fire on
one’s skin. Whatsoever purpose all these theatrical acts may be puts up to serve, let everyone know that
the silence of the public does not mean we accept the insult on our collective intelligence. Our sheer of
maturity, wisdom and experience is increasingly enhanced daily beyond their horizons. That we are
often regarded as illiterates does not mean we cannot spell out names off hand.
Your campaign against corruption is likely going to fail because of these few reasons: One, the
focus; two, lack of sensitization; there, lack of sincerity, simply put, the focus of the campaign seems to
have more weight on some institutions than it has on others. This ought not to be so. The focus
supposed to follow along the track of equality. Financial institution, agencies and ministries at the
federal and state levels seem to be the main concern, while attaching special privileges by not paying
much attention to other areas like Educational Institutions, which are the birth places of all corrupt acts.
This cannot make the campaign thrive favourably. Expounding on the lack of sensitization, I have a lot
to say. The effectiveness of governance lies in the support giving by the citizens. And what drives the
support by the citizens is when they have the feeling of being giving a chance to matter to the
governing class. When citizens feel being carried along in the act of governance, their support grows
steadily. One of the ways to carry people along is by giving adequate sensitization on any policy or
campaign before embarking on it. Sensitization is very crucial that its role cannot be ruled out in the
scheme of things. Taking a step down memory lane, the two thousand and twelve subsidy removal
policy of the then government failed woefully due to lack of adequate sensitization. People, especially
those at the grassroots, woke to hear shocking news of usury in protest against it, and it elicited
response from the government. Members of the opposition parties and dubious civil society groups led
the ignorant masses for their selfish interest, making the wail assumed a very wide dimension. So, the
effect of it was that, as laudable as the policy was, it failed. Had people sensitized, the story would have
been different one. When Ebola epidemic broke out in Nigeria, despite the fact that it required exigent
measures, massive creation of awareness were carried out with emphasis on prevention. People were
made to know its cause, modes of contracting it, how to respond among other things. In effect, it look