Buhari: His silence and stale actions

When Boko Haram surfaced in the North East region of Nigeria, it was a time Yaradua was already in deep health challenge, a challenge that eventually took his life. Then it became the lot of his Vice, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan who later became acting and finally President to take action to whip the recalcitrant Islamist into line. I must admit that Jonathan for a reason best known to him failed to act when it was necessary and so the insurgency festered. By 2013 when the state of emergency was finally declared on the three Boko Haram states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, Boko Haram had already declared part of the area a caliphate. At that time too, the current President was quoted to have said that Jonathan had declared war on the North. Condemnations were poured on Jonathan for not acting fast to arrest the situation. The high point of Boko Haram misadventure was the abduction of Girls from a Secondary School in Chibok, Borno state. We were told that security report had warned that those girls should not stay in the school at that period. But the Governor of Borno State – Kashim Shettima encouraged the girls to stay at school to take their WAEC examinations as all security measures had been put in place. However, when the girls were abducted nobody to dared ask Gov. Shettima salient questions that he needed to answer in respect to the abducted girls. Nobody remembers that Shettima, being the Chief Security Officer of His state ought to know firsthand, what happened in his domain before the President. All blames were on President Jonathan who was seen as not being concerned about the plight of the girls even as we knew his media men were always there to respond to issues.
Today we have a President who is constantly holed up in Aso Rock as if the totality of the fifteen million plus votes he got came from there. Proxy wars are being fought all over the country. It started in Agatu, Benue state where certain marauders called Fulani herdsmen with automatic rifles turned it to a land flowing with blood. This was done repeatedly without the the President showing concern. They moved from there to Nimbo in Enugu state, where like Agatu, it was laid waste with the blood of humans whom God created. Nimbo also witnessed repeated attacks. Mentions need not be made of Taraba, Ekiti and other states where people who slept in the comfort of their homes only woke up in Heaven or Hell having been so dispatched overnight by Fulani herdsmen.
In all these, the President who swore to an oath to protect his subjects kept maintaining a studied silence. In contrast, the President in far away China had told the world that, he was sure to give Niger Delta Militants a Boko Haram treatment. He followed up with a massive troop in the Niger Delta tagged “Operation crocodile Smile”.
Before and up till now, IPOP never had any record of violence demonstrations nor destructive protests. They simply conducted their peaceful procession to remember their late leader.
But under Buhari, this cannot be tolerated. Troops were sent to  dispatch most of the IPOP members to their untimely grave. This was followed by another massive troop in the South East called “Operation Python Dance” even when there is no music. Buhari had to make several pronouncements within and abroad that Biafran dream can never be realized with him in the throne.
Why is the same President maintaining this deafening silence in the Southern Kaduna killings? Is Buhari actually here to fulfill a destiny or mission? Let it be known that, if Nigeria was divided under Jonathan, it is fractured and fractionalized under him.
He has in many occasions which I cannot recount here, shown that he is not a President for all.
We now hear that troops have been deployed after over 800 people have been killed, an action that ought to have been taken much earlier. Inspector General of Police is now quarrelling with the utterances of the helpless religious leaders and the figure of casualties given, while ignoring his responsibility of protecting lives and property. He is more concerned about getting forensic analysis to determine who owns a voice in an innocuous phone conversation than nipping crises in the bud.
It is our President’s stale actions and late responses to issues of National importance that have put Nigeria at where it is. As I said before, Buhari has not shown in any way that, he was prepared to be a President of a country as diverse as Nigeria.