THE GREAT DEBATE :OIL SUBSIDY SECURITY NEXT?

 In what will be best described as an herculean effort and a reenactment of a great battle fought in and can only be found in the Greek mythology tales, eminent scholars, Government officials, respected journalist, lawyers , oil marketers and the general public gathered together in one room to thrash out one issue that has remained on the civic awareness and minds of everyone the highly controversial subject on Oil subsidy, when in July this thing became apparent there was a full scale cry of despair hate animosity and general annoyance in the polity , almost threatening the somewhat peaceful cohabitation we have enjoyed for so long its intent as expected was to garner views and to extrapolate reactions good or bad to spearhead its plan  for economic benefit, the Government convinced it will save the country, the People on the other hand not believing them based on Past indications on other administrations , they didn't want to be caught in another fool hardy approach and so it dragged on, insults raised anger and divide achieved talk shows here and there people shared their views political differences where set aside and people began to bicker and bicker , there was a strong standoff  the President not able to sell the Public and assure them had to devise a means,  a means they had earlier rebuffed as suggested by an eminent scholar , they had to organize a debate where we all shared our minds and ideas gotten from this collated to finally pass the motion into law yet brushing aside many issues in its place , this debate has later gone on to be tagged the Great debate and it is without Prejudice as a lot of useful talks hard hitting points where raised, this article isn't going to deal with what happened we can ask that ourselves or go online and see clips from the debate my issue is to talk on another matter that has totally confounded the polity and has driven us to fear it has come to stay with us and it has grown to a point that we are totally fed up with the system I'm  talking of the Security issue and as we see it today , it is common knowledge that we have gripped with armed robbers, murderers/ritual killings , and quite recently kidnappings. the state has accepted this and harkened it to lack of man power and not enough funds for this agents but now a dire threat has been mounted on us and if we do not clamor for this to be quelled then we may have as well handed over the keys of our country to destruction, since the Niger Delta incident began there has been more than 30 known groups who have challenged the Government in one way or the other but none like this group translated to BOKO HARAM meaning Western Education is Sin coined from both Arab and Hausa/Fulani word this menace originally started as all groups of such nature began as a peaceful group voicing injustice amongst the People but was largely ignored and left then a vicious political scheme saw them metamorphose to political thuggery and finally they have become what is now known as a terrorist group their rise to prominence is as a result of corruption,  breakdown in our  security network and intelligence and general stupidity of security forces now those that have clamored for oil subsidy should tone down that suggestion and focus on the imperitive problem , which is how to safegaured the nation the public at large the integrity of the nation.So far international agencies have reported at least 19000 people have died and all these while we keep hearing the top chiefs of our security outfits say that they are on top of matters...... matters my foot these men dont know  A from B and it is appallin that even after setting up an Anti Terrorism Squad that things are still like this even after other intelligence forces gave them warnings weeks before the tragic bombings they still ignored such threats, is it man Power they need? im sure they can train our young niger deltans who have fought the Government before and dealt a large blow to use their guirella training to the advantage of the Government and help augument the army , is it funds? since the military and democratic govt have ruled it has always gupped huge amounts in the system and you agree with me that no amount is too small or big for security and welfare of the nation, is it their wages? except those olombos or popularly known black on black policemen called as olopa they are paid quite well and always on time , i think the reason security has not performed well  as it ought to be is first the passion and commitment to stand by the pledge they say, secondly it is ignorance and lack of education and creativity/innovation, thirdly is technical know how, technology, planning, systematic review and updates, working together and Corruption, it is quite unfortunate that these men who have sworn to protect us become the criminals themselves this is alarming and must be stopped so i think this idea for a Great debate on security will give us a view to air our minds on this negligible and annoying state of shame our security systems are, what we need are breakdown of security operations and introduction of technological and intelligence gathering teams etc..... it is clear our police needs to break up and form state,  local and community/citizen police systems to ensure a network of safety.
i am waiting for the time we will gather like this and discuss on security issues and offer solutions but all plans must be carefully outlined to make sure that wrong criminals and detractors do not get them so even if it will be live the intelligence report after the whole thing will not be shown rather the action steps will be to put people to trust the leadership , and also release fake options to thwart and divert the attention of such criminals elsewhere , we must seek assistance from countries who are willing to help naturally and with nothing attached to them to help us plan better.

But for now we can only pray for those many victims who lost their lives in 4 states in 6 places round the country on Christmas day our deepest sympathy lies with the families of such people , it is time we have a say in security matters it is time to rise up to challenge our status quo enough is enough!.