Nigeria is at war. The country is facing the greatest challenge to her existence in the wake of revelations about the many daggers that had been directed at her throat. We are not talking of Boko Haram or Shiite or the Biafra reawakening. The opponents now are not the Egbesu boys or the Militants of the Riverine hide-outs. The OPC militants are no longer on war path. And we are not talking of the reported invasion of some kidnappers from Benin Republic.
Yet the country is at war! For years the pen soldiers who were throwing their pen daggers at Nigeria have had a field day. It was a one sided battle. The warriors were fighting and conquering and plundering while their opponent Madam Nigeria was sleeping and snoring. In the one sided war, Nigeria had her eyes plucked out, her dull brain pulled out, her limbs shackled, and all of her soldiers were taken captive.
Just when the attackers were about to slash her throat and put dagger to her stomach to take out the organs that a no-nonsense General, retired but definitely not tired, sprang to his feet and swore to combat the pen soldiers and save Nigeria.
Readers should not confuse the pen pushers alleged to have swallowed some paltry 120 million Naira with the pen soldiers under reference. I mean real Pen Robbers! People who rob with pens and signatures!
These are the real soldiers that have engaged Nigeria in silent war. Now they are out in the field. They have been exposed. And they are fiercer and more deadly than when they wore camouflages and covered their faces to hide their identities. Now that they are in the open they have engaged Madam Nigeria in a war of wits.
In conventional battles, the arsenal of opposing camps is usually x-rayed and assessed for comparative analysis to show which side was at a disadvantage and which side possessed superior firing power.
The warriors who had engaged their pens, brains, signatures, skills and monumental greed and heartlessness to inflict the greatest wounds on Nigeria have now added more frightening weapons to their armoury. They have Currency chewing SANs, Charge-and-Bail lawyers, crooked Court officials, and all bribable accomplices plus hired placard wielding demonstrators and humongous amount of money to throw at the conscience of collaborating judges!
Commander-In-Chief Buhari on the other hand has the EFCC which for many years had proved to be toothless bull dogs known for its legendary wishy-washy investigations, the Prosecutors who are a mere extension of the same rot Madam Nigeria.
