Nigerian state has vanished – Aturu

Bamidele Aturu

Radical Lagos based lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, has stated that the security challenges across the nation was not the failure of the state, but a total absence of the state, noting that Nigeria as a nation has totally vanished.

The outspoken legal practitioner who described the recent killing of scores of police officers by a cult group in Nasarawa as scary and paralysing, also added that the killing of the security agencies who were carrying out their duty was totally callous and unacceptable.

Aturu in a statement issued in Lagos said, “Let no one politicise the madness that is going on in Nigeria: it is not a case of failure of leadership or of the State (as some fancy), but their absence.

“The state is not failing in Nigeria; nor has it failed- it has vanished. Welcome to warlordism of the most virulent kind,” Mr. Aturu said.

While noting that the security agencies are operating in the dark, he admonished Nigerians to brace up and find an alternative to the absence of the state.

“We need to do everything necessary to rescue our stateless-country. If we don’t, we are all in for it.

“The truth is that the political elites have lost it completely. The security agencies are merely groping in the dark, while anarchy reigns supreme,” he said.

He further called on the federal government to do everything necessary to rescue the kidnapped Rhodes- Vivours family (wife and daughter of a Nigerian Supreme Court judge); threatening to hold the government responsible if they are hurt.