The alleged intervention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, famously known as the Jagaban, in the face off between Alhaji Aliyu Dangote and the oil cartels in Nigeria seems to suggests that the days of the protracted security challenges in the country may be numbered. In other words, the end of the period when a lot of people sleep with their two eyes wide open because of the security situation in the country may very well not be far away.

It is also expected that the intractable security challenges faced by the nation would soon be a thing for the historians and psychologists all over thee world to look at with amusement and dismay, but dismay mostly.

The biggest answer that most Nigerian is that the average Nigerian wants to have is the alleged sponsors of the Insecurity in Nigeria, that appears to defy all efforts by governments at the Federal and state levels to stop it.

Based on account of the voluntary confession of two famous northerners, one of whom of them a Muslim preacher of note who is unfortunately dead and a northern woman ranking politician of high recognition, as well as three video clips trending on the social media.

All the five things appear to suggest that Nigeria’s intractable security challenges are man-made, not a simultaneous natural phenomenon, and the solution to stop them are not only tenable, but could be achieved with enough good and political wills to do so.

Nigeria’s security challenges, allegedly caused and carried out by non state actors, such as the Boko Haram, Fulani bandits and militants in the north and other parts of the country as well as the secessionists in the west, has been responsible for the deaths of thousands in the country over the years.

And it has been raging for about one decade since the late President and Commander In Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’adua gave the marching order to the security forces to stop members of a new Muslim group from preaching its weird ideology of seeing anything made by, and in the Western World, as taboo. The group came to be known as ‘Boko Haram’, or Western Education is taboo.

Then the Fulani banditry, which first started as cattle theft between and among Fulani groups, before it ballooned into a full grown banditry characterised by the killing of humans, abduction of humans for ransom, theft of food items and the burning of entire settlements, the two dominant secessionist groups, one each in the south west and the south east, and the militias all over the country, notably the north central states, the south eastern states and the south western states. 

All the ugly events described above combine to make survival in the rural areas a thing not even for the fittest. It was a very tasking job, even as only one of them is enough to give people sleepless nights, and days too, in some places.

According to the late Shiekh Jafar Adam of Kano who delivered his Ramadan Tafsir in Maiduguri, the Boko Haram preaching by the equally late Muhammed Yusuf of Borno state incited the youths in the area against anything Western. He alleged that Muhammed Yusuf was not a versed person in Islam to make the judgment that arose the passion in the young people and which led them into believing him.

Another video clip showed the alleged Image of the National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribado, the pioneer chairman of the anti graft commission, EFCC, pleading with some white men to stop sponsoring the terrorists who are behind the insecurity in the country. This plea confirmed the confession of a terrorist made to the policy in one of the north western statea. The terrorist had informed the police that he and his accomplices got their sophisticated weapons from a helicopter piloted by a white man. In fact, some white men took part in the fight on the part of the terrorists, the man further alleged.

In still another video clip, the infamous bandit, Bello Turji alleged that the Minister of Defence, Honourable Bello Muhammed Matawalle was responsible for the insecurity affecting the north west when he was the Governor of Zamfara State. The veracity or otherwise of the allegation is not actually as much of concern here as what it implied. The implication is that the insecurity ravaging the area is man made.

The fourth video clip showed an unnamed Fulani leader saying that if the leaders (Ardos) of the various Fulani groups were involved in the atrocities said to be committed by the Fulani, the solution to the problem would long have been founded. He also insisted that the Nigerian Army and the Police be removed from the fight against insecurity, notably banditry in the country, alleging that the leadership of the two security services are not keen to see to the end of the security challenges in the country.

This allegation tallied with the same allegation made by the popular Kano woman politician, Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed, who severally alleged that she was sent to the leadership of the nation during the immediate past administration to urge them to remove the Military and Police from the prosecution of the fight against the banditry worrying the north, but the north west in particular. Allegedly, the two security outfits are responsible for the continuation of the menace. She made one of the allegations during a public appearance she made on Farin Wata television in Abuja.

One of the miltia groups in the north confessed to the Police in a north central state that its members were actually responsible for some of the killings blamed on the bandits. Those who made the confession said that members of the group spoke fluent Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, and ape the mannerism of the Fulani people so as to make it look like an operation carried out by the Fulani bandits.

The scenarios described in the write up and allegations made by the actors so mentioned, appear to suggest that the insecurity in Nigeria was man made, but made to look like an attact by the hated Fulani bandits.

All the terrorists and criminals have one thing in common with one another, and this is the vast recruitment field of the seemingly limitless idle minds among both sexes. It is made up of the innocent looking ‘beggars’ and violence prone street urchins in the north, as well  as the pierce looking gangs, many of whom live under the bridges or in unoccupied homes or buildings, in the south west or the Hausa/Fulani Muslim hating secessionists in the south east.

Many of the ‘beggars’ who contributed to the unsavoury reputation of some states in the north west are non Nigerians from some of our foreign neighbours. Due to their long stay in the country, they have become Nigerian citizens, some of whom grew up to become hardened criminals who stopped at nothing including drug 

trafficking, drug induced murder and senseless killing for thrills and  image boosting.

Finally, at the risk of being accused of turning my writings into a family affair, I must conclude by  telling the world that the task of reading the human mind, especially the mind of the criminal variety, belongs to people like another a very good brother and friend, Alhaji Sanusi Gambo Rumah. In a previous article, I mentioned a very good friend of mine, Sada Yusuf Bozo, who responded to the remark's made about him by modestly refusing the ‘compliment’ I  had made about him.

Well, whether Alhaji Sanusi Rumah likes the compliment or not, I see him as Nigeria’s modern day answer to the 20th century Spaniard psycho analyst, Sigmund Freud, who was believed to be the greatest psychologist of his time.

May Allah help us in whatever that will be beneficial to us, and may the day of the so called rage never come to pass, instead may it be replaced with the day of peace, love and hope in our dear country, Nigeria.

Malam Malumfashi wrote from Abuja.