Religious civil strife and the unwillingness and inability of Goodluck Jonathan’s government to hold the bull by the horn in arresting or bringing to books the architects of the strife may put the government on the verge of collapsing.
According to emerging reports, a big danger is looming in Nigeria as the nation is sliding gradually into another civil war, this time caused by religious bigotry and the unwillingness of the government to tackle the perpetrators headlong and clip their trouble fermenting feathers.
Recent events in the country have pitched many factions of religious groups against each other, especially the nation’s Christian and Muslim communities with the incessant killings of Christians in the northern part of the country.
In the northern part, the atmosphere has been tense due to the targets of Christian communities and Churches in incessant bombings, creating unwarranted blood-lettings by northern religious terrorists called Boko Haram.
Lack of strong action to bring the perpetrators of the bombing crime to books however continues to create worries as whipped-up frustrations, angers and innuendos continue to build up across the country.
According to recent reports in the country, Nigeria’s Christians are losing faith that the government will protect them from attacks by Islamic extremists and has threatened to “respond appropriately” to future killings.
State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu said recently called on the governors and President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently go after the sponsors of the Boko Haram sect, claiming that the government knew all the sponsors.
“We know the sponsors of the sect,” said the governor.
According to Aliyu, the only way to end the acts of bombing across the Northern states is to go after the masterminds of the sect.
The Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN), the national umbrella Association of Christians in Nigeria however has threatened a tit-for tat action to handle the security of Christian across the country, declaring the Christmas Day targeting of churches in several cities “a declaration of war on Christians and Nigeria as an entity.”
The group also criticized Nigerian Muslim leading counterparts for failing to condemn the Islamic militants in a louder voice to declare they are not in solidarity with the unwarranted blood letting of Christians
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