The rate of insecurity in the country has become so worrisome. We can no longer say there is no cause for alarm. The alarm bells have certainly been ringing for a while now for anyone who actually cares enough to listen. From the North to the South, we have been faced with one form of insecurity or the other. It is either we are dealing with ethno-religious crisis or farmers-herders clashes, if it is not that then maybe kidnapping, cult clashes, ritual killings and the likes.

Clergymen have been abducted or killed, similar fate have befallen royal fathers, civil right activists, suspects under investigation in police custody and  even men of the military have not been spared. No one appear safe at the moment. It makes you wonder what is really going on.

The level of insecurity and impunity in the land is really something we should all be worried about. Or what do we now make of a situation where people feel they can do absolutely whatever they want to without recourse to the law and at the end of the day nothing tangible is been done to bring them to book.

What do we make of a several Nigerian soldiers deployed to combat terrorism been ambushed and killed? Something is definitely wrong somewhere.

Only days ago, former Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal, Alex Badeh (retd.) was murdered in mysterious circumstances along Abuja-Keffi road. While many have come out to condemn the killing and even President Muhammadu Buhari has gone a step further by ordering security agencies to bring the killers to book, that is certainly not good enough as we have seen this script play over and over again.

It has been a recurring decimal, when things like this happen it is usually greeted with uproar but before long we all turn our backs and everything is swept under the carpet until it happens again and then comes the uproar and on it goes. Until the appropriate authorities are actually held accountable and start bringing perpetrators of these crimes to book, the cycle will continue. We cannot keep paying lips service to the issue of insecurity. It could be Mr. A’s turn today, but tomorrow it could be anybody’s turn.

Leaders at various levels have to see security of lives and properties of their followers as a priority. You will have no one to lead if you lose all your followers to insecurity. Many have come out to say that the security apparatus of the country needs to be reviewed and with the recent happenings it is not difficult to see why.

We have to first acknowledge that we are not quite getting it right at the moment on the issue of security before we can make conscious and dedicated efforts to addressing the challenges.