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As General Musa Quantifies Nigerians’ Grief With 70% Lies
The administration’s recent insistence that security in Nigeria has improved by “65 to 70 percent” is a metric that exists solely within the sterilized corridors of Aso Rock and the National Assembly. To the family in a village in the North-West, the farmer in the Middle Belt, or the traveler on a highway in the South-East, such percentages are not just inaccurate; they are an act of psychological violence. By quantifying the survival of citizens as a “scorecard,” these leaders reduce human existence to a spreadsheet of acceptable loss. When the Minister of Defence claims the nation is 70% secure, he is effectively telling the 30%—the grieving, the displaced, and the bereaved—that their tragedy is merely a rounding error in the administration’s quest for a positive public relations victory.
In the theatre of Nigerian governance, there exists a peculiar, chilling performance art: the systematic gaslighting of a populace under siege.
For the current political echelon, the tragedy of the Nigerian state—defined by the daily harvest of lives to banditry, terrorism, and unchecked criminality—is not an emergency to be resolved, but a narrative to be managed.
For a government that ascended to power amidst profound questions of legitimacy, the failure to prioritize the safety of the people is not just a policy failure, it is a moral catastrophe.
The perception of a rogue state, where power is wielded with such blatant disregard for the sanctity of life, creates a spiritual and physical exhaustion that permeates the entire Nigerian project. When leaders characterize the slaughter of their people as an aberration or a political plot, they are not governing; they are dancing on the graves of the fallen.
The Failure of the “Purposeful” Narrative
The administration’s “purposeful leadership” narrative is an exercise in manufacturing consent where none exists. There is no “purpose” in a leadership that views its citizens as pawns in a long game of political survival. The “scalded-earth” reality is that while the elite enjoy the security of high fences and armed convoys, the rest of the country is left to fend for themselves in an environment where the state has essentially vacated its social contract.
To label the country 70% secure while the remaining 30% live in constant terror is to reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of what a nation is. A nation is not a collection of oil production statistics or highway projects; it is a compact of safety and dignity between the state and the citizen.
When that compact is shattered, as it currently is, the leaders who persist in claiming success are not merely “out of touch”— they are the architects of a state of permanent insecurity, presiding over a systemic decline that threatens to unravel the very fabric of the Nigerian state.
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