A friend sent me this video of a captured herdsman with an AK47 automatic rifle. What really got me worried is the inherent knowhow in the herdsman when he was
asked to disassemble and reassemble the rifle.
He did the bidding with relative ease. When asked how he knew so much about such high sophisticated weaponry he said "he just knew". He also said he was using the gun to guard 200 cows.
Now, this video may seem a run-of-the-mill and may not provoke you that much but there is really more to this scene than meets the eye. What I see here is sophisticated arms in the hands of a killer squad with sophisticated military training protected by the people in power.
Why would a herdsman need a weapon such as an AK47 rifle? The truth is, it is a plot by the caliphate to forcefully take lands from your hands in the guise of grazing. Imagine how many of these arms are out there and how much havoc it has caused or still being caused that is unknown.
The real people operating the arms are not the youths in the north as shown in this video but the people in the corridors of power. They are your average politician (not excluding your president) who fund and protect this arms proliferation.
What I see further is the deliberate nonchalance from government to truly stop these arms proliferation through a well organized killer herdsmen because they, indeed, are the sponsors of these terrors. Imagine a young boy like this enters your farm in the south with such sophisticated weaponry costing over N2m per rifle. What do you do? Defend yourself with a machete or a hoe?
Nigeria is in deep chaos. We must not wait until it gets worse than it already is. The time to do something is now!
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