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It gave me a great pleasure having seen certain number of concerned youths talking about the menace of sara-suka around the city of Jos. This came as a result of the escalation of the menace, particularly how a number of youths recently lost their lives.
I heard and read from many people proffering solutions and suggestions to the issue; rising from arresting the sara-suka thugs, shooting them at sight to punishing them proportionately. Well, all are good suggestions. But are we suggesting a permanent or temporary solution(s)? If we are for the former, then we must go back to the root causes of sara-suka, those things that support it, and proffer solutions suitable to the kind of environment we found ourselves.
First and foremost, the Hausa communities in Jos are blessed with children and youths so energetic and vigorous. These young people seemed not to be properly up-brought. What happens is that, our parents do not care so much in discharging their parental duties. Imagine a man having two, three or four wives and about 20 children or more, separated in different rented rooms with a petty business! How can such a man properly look at his children's education, food, the friends they keep, where they go, etc.? That man should have cut his clothe according to his size.
Secondly, what fuels this menace is the worsening drug abuse that somewhat shows the disappearance of N.D.L.E.A, NAFDAC and the government entirely. One wonders how these hard drugs are produced, distributed and consumed every day. We must, therefore, challenge the government based on this because all the thugs are drug addicts.
Furthermore, the police who are charged with the responsibility of prosecuting these sort of cases set the arrested suspects free on collection of bribes from either the parents of the suspects or their sponsors. Also, I throw this challenge to the police that they, at times, arrest innocent people rather than the criminals because they leave the scene of the crime as soon as they carry out the bloody act.
Now, the problem seems to go beyond the capability of the police, the soldiers are included but the menace still takes a worsening round. And many people throw virtually all the blame on security agents for being incapable of bringing the situation under control. But can the security agents make it alone? I have a cloudy doubt!
Members of the various communities around the city of Jos are at the forefront in tackling this issue by way of synergizing with the security agents. Members of every community know those thugs and hoodlums, those that endanger the peace of the society. For that reason, they may be able to point the bad elements to security agents. Parents who, out of so-called love and affection for their children, go to police stations to secure bail for their children who are arrested for commission of thuggery, should be dealt with. Unless the members of our various communities stand to be proactive, the future generation would be worse than this.
Finally, I urge the Plateau State government and the members of our communities to have a synergy in addressing the issue of sara-suka because neither the government alone nor the the communities can bring the situation under control.
Abdul Mutallib Muktar
20th June, 2018.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/on-the-sara-suka-menace.html
It gave me a great pleasure having seen certain number of concerned youths talking about the menace of sara-suka around the city of Jos. This came as a result of the escalation of the menace, particularly how a number of youths recently lost their lives.
I heard and read from many people proffering solutions and suggestions to the issue; rising from arresting the sara-suka thugs, shooting them at sight to punishing them proportionately. Well, all are good suggestions. But are we suggesting a permanent or temporary solution(s)? If we are for the former, then we must go back to the root causes of sara-suka, those things that support it, and proffer solutions suitable to the kind of environment we found ourselves.
First and foremost, the Hausa communities in Jos are blessed with children and youths so energetic and vigorous. These young people seemed not to be properly up-brought. What happens is that, our parents do not care so much in discharging their parental duties. Imagine a man having two, three or four wives and about 20 children or more, separated in different rented rooms with a petty business! How can such a man properly look at his children's education, food, the friends they keep, where they go, etc.? That man should have cut his clothe according to his size.
Secondly, what fuels this menace is the worsening drug abuse that somewhat shows the disappearance of N.D.L.E.A, NAFDAC and the government entirely. One wonders how these hard drugs are produced, distributed and consumed every day. We must, therefore, challenge the government based on this because all the thugs are drug addicts.
Furthermore, the police who are charged with the responsibility of prosecuting these sort of cases set the arrested suspects free on collection of bribes from either the parents of the suspects or their sponsors. Also, I throw this challenge to the police that they, at times, arrest innocent people rather than the criminals because they leave the scene of the crime as soon as they carry out the bloody act.
Now, the problem seems to go beyond the capability of the police, the soldiers are included but the menace still takes a worsening round. And many people throw virtually all the blame on security agents for being incapable of bringing the situation under control. But can the security agents make it alone? I have a cloudy doubt!
Members of the various communities around the city of Jos are at the forefront in tackling this issue by way of synergizing with the security agents. Members of every community know those thugs and hoodlums, those that endanger the peace of the society. For that reason, they may be able to point the bad elements to security agents. Parents who, out of so-called love and affection for their children, go to police stations to secure bail for their children who are arrested for commission of thuggery, should be dealt with. Unless the members of our various communities stand to be proactive, the future generation would be worse than this.
Finally, I urge the Plateau State government and the members of our communities to have a synergy in addressing the issue of sara-suka because neither the government alone nor the the communities can bring the situation under control.
Abdul Mutallib Muktar
20th June, 2018.
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