In this security situation, there are questions we reluctantly refused to raise. Okay,
Where are our scholars(resting in the academia?)?
Where are the Elder statesmen? (Until when there is a crisis within their class or their political and economic interests at stake?). In Katsina, we even have more elders in the Villa than many states, but all we get is insecurity, not development
Where are the influential religious and traditional establishments? I don't even want to talk about them. I am disappointed in them.
Where are the opposing political interest groups (ko sai siyasa ta zo?). This is why we should see the opposition parties and politicians as the same; they only want the power, not the progress of the society. They are all not progressive.
Where are the youth groups?(maular siyasa da son iyawa da karyar "I have arrived" ya hana su hada Kai for a common cause?). In Katsina, we have more youth in the Villa than all the states, but what have they been doing to the state and the North, the country even?
The women, where are they? (Or because there's little political and economic gains in this that we won't hear the voice of EQUALITY? Or are women and girl child not part of the victims?)
Etc etc
Until we have these segments of the society rising to the occasion, the delusion of expecting these governments to ever do something tangible will continue and solution to the problem won't be in sight.
We need a functional and informed citizenry to get things right. That's more the role of the scholars and is also why scholars as a social group should champion this cause.
Baba Bala Katsina
Tsangayar Malam Dan Malam
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