Traveling to anywhere by road in Nigeria and you'll find these checkpoint manned by Soldiers, Police, Mobile and stationary and other armed men of variegated color's and backgrounds, sometimes by all of them on the same road. They impede movement with wood, some with wheels affix to them for esse of the pull and push, drums filled with customers, some cast in concrete signify permanency, impunity
All to no avail as insecurity still plagues the country without abating, copying the agbero system of collecting. They stretch hand at every bus taxing 50 naira per bus.
Any good government determined to end the problem of insecurity must know that the key is in education, spending heavily on education and over a period of time Will educate the populace, teach them their own propriety and grace, streamline civility,
. rather they keep spending money they could use in employing teachers to buy obsolete air crafts and fighter Jets in their billions naira subject to a technological transfer that is a refuse dump, swindle and avenue to siphon.
Obviating the general small mindedness and selfishness of their ignorance.
Before this crazed inflation every checkpoint carried a flat and sometimes negotiable fee of 50 naira, the drivers made change initially but with the dynamisms of a change basket at hand the soldier reveal their onus, simplify their meaning.
They wear convenient nose masks to protect against the dust, or hide their faces from aggrieved passengers, but today it is the norm, their colleagues extend greetings, chat while they make change when on board.
In the village roads, these checkpoints double as barbing salons, as bored soldiers take to barbing the hair of passengers and villagers as their whims direct. Or you pay a toll off one thousand five hundred to three thousand, all appeal fall on deaf ears,even when you tell them that there's a spiritual purpose to your keeping it, which under no condition is it any of their business what you choose to do with your own waste product.
It is the extension of the church to the military, this is Jesus' Nigeria and the bible frown at... Have they read the Bible where it actually forbade cutting one's hair. But soldiers armed and bored will think of an entertainment- you!
Trained for 6 months to a year a soldier will betray or rather obviate the mediocrity and nepotism that ensured his employ and use his uniform to Barb hair on the highway.
When the drivers play hard ball an AK47 is pointed at their face for 50 naira, it's a target system an Agbero system and there's a quota that must be remitted daily to their boss and it cuts them to the quick.
Little do they knows that they taught the Boko Haram, kidnappers, Lukatarawa boys and bandits how to tax farmers for harvesting, collect ransom. The boys paid to protect have only compounded insecurity and made it worse via sheer greed.
With a large army and nothing to do, the country sits on a very expensive gunpowder. And instead of protecting People the army have become used by the Big wigs of this country turning them on the people they swore to protect to carry out all sorts of experiments and mind control.
Mufti garbed the army now specializes on Signal and systems management, mind control and behavior engineering.
These Big men who have soiled our military give them the brazen nature to constitute moral hazard, erect checkpoints whimsically without checking with local law enforcement and are sometimes in cahoot with the criminals for better pay.
A bloated living trail from.tje the head down, when Generals are paid 20 thousand dollars hy the government for doing nothing When we know these to be hush money to cover up for crimes that they commit.
Chief among them is ritual killings and accidental assassinations and kidnap carried out like the senseless killing of a ballot box snatcher in the last Kogi election, (why not maim and arraign)
The killing of children in the iDPS just before the Shiloh program or the reduction of the refugees by a mistake in coordinates the military is filled with News of these mistakes that are so for the gullible.. They act with impunity have been reduced to paid thugs for bullying because they help these guys do their dirty jobs.
These checkpoints use open fires, old lanterns, torch light drums, break side mirrors When rushed past and endure the scorching sun, inflict tortures, delay, frustrate and barb the hair of travelers
It's a security procedure that's doesn't know it limit .
Or is it a mafia system of tax collection agbero system for there are 75 checkpoints from Makurdi to Zaki Biam, I should know I counted it, collecting 50 naira without fail remorse or pity.
A Lieutenant Colonel has a control of 30 soldiers in infantry he erects 15 checkpoint on a road tasking each checkpoint to remit 10 thousand naira daily. (Mind you lorries and trucks are taxed differently)
Let's calculate together, it means he makes 150 thousand nair daily and 4.5 million naira monthly excluding his salary and allowances m
And his boys are sure to make some form themselves.
Security becomes very simple ndeed, it becomes a stretch of the hand. And insecurity still plagues the country, with checkpoints like these girls are herded for distance and across states without meeting any one of these checkpoints.
Travelers are kidnapped and held for months,.and not a single checkpoint heard anything, maybe they are just makeshift toll gates, we were just in self deceit. They exist still, barbers and tax collectors armed and masked like ...
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