One article by Hassan Gimba, originally published in December 2021 and later republished, don warn say rule of law for Nigeria dey fail and say di fear wey ordinary citizens dey face because of insecurity still dey relevant today.
Di article tok say di average citizen today dey live in fear. When person enter house to rest, e dey pray make God save am from evil attackers wey don remove peace from di night. When sun rise, e still rely on God to protect am from people wey don make law their own.
According to di article, rule of law don take flight for Nigeria. E tok say charlatans wey carry guns wey dey easy for any riff-raff to get fit set checkpoint on any federal road and operate for hours, dey kidnap, kill and maim passengers. Sometimes dem set cars on fire with commuters—women, children, infants, elderly and sick—trapped inside.
Di article add say di attackers fit waka for hours without hinderance despite drones and Tucanos, with tens or sometimes hundreds of prisoners from di main road into di bushes. Many times dem dey video such operations, including torture of captives, and send am make everybody see for social media.
E also tok say dem dey rape female victims, single or married, any age or physical condition. Men wey catch their fancy dey get sodomised. Di article tok say nothing dey happen because rule of law no affect dem. Many women wey survive come out pregnant or with diseases.
Di article cite Pharmacist Hannatu Mohammed for Zaria in August. E tok say kidnappers kill her because she no fit move fast due to pregnancy, and she leave two children behind. E also recount story of a captive wey born twins for bandits camp; di article tok say dem throw di newborns to dogs for breakfast and di woman go mad. Another newborn, according to di article, dey fed sleeping pills once e start to cry.
For all these cases and many more, reported and unreported, wey di article say no fit catalogue because of their number, living victims and their families cry alone, while friends and family mourn di dead. Di article tok say dem receive nothing—no justice, no compensation, no condolence.
