On August 1, the so-called hardship protests exposed the ugly face of the North, perhaps in ways unintended. Yes, the narrative is being promoted that the August 1-10 protest is youth-led, but in the northern part of Nigeria, it is almost children-led. It was incredible days ago seeing hundreds and hundreds of youths at the forefront of the protests, wielding sticks and other cudgels, and baying for the blood of all manner of victims, quite unable to understand anything. There is video evidence of this boundless folly, if the authorities have the stomach to do anything about it.
The region has been battling banditry and insurgency for years, and the war has cost the country billions of naira and the blood of thousands of young men and women. What on earth were the elders of the North who are preoccupied with leadership politics looking at when their pre-teens and teenage children poured into the streets and became instantly incorporated into the looting frenzy that ravaged the region on August 1? What point were they trying to make? Does it not corroborate the fear many Nigerians harbour that the North’s unregulated population growth, especially without a corresponding responsibility of parents to their young, constitutes both a dread for individuals and a security threat to the nation?
Mayhem was unleashed on some states in the North on August 1, and public infrastructure consumed in the mindless rage of those who have no clue how facilities are funded. The children all mouthed the same anti-government, anti-president refrain. So far, perhaps as proof that some of the protesters might have been sponsored, there has been little public outrage in the North about the scandalous presence of thousands of children learning to storm the barricades. It is probably the most horrendous abuse of children in any nation, an indication of the criminal negligence for which northern elders are directly culpable.
Culled from The Nation (Columnists/Palladium)
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