When the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, recently stated during an interview that the end of insecurity in Nigeria can only be determined by God, it was a telling statement. He had said, “It is only God that can bring an end to this insecurity, alongside our collective prayers and efforts. It should not be used as a tool to condemn others or score political points.” That statement has understandably triggered the nerves of Nigerians fed up with mediocrity and failure and have had it with leaders who evade responsibility by bamboozling us with what God. Matawalle is, of course, not the first—nor would be the last—of his kind who would defer the solution to problems caused by human agency to God’s sovereignty. It is one thing for a cleric—and many of them do—to say, “only God can end Nigeria’s problem” and another entirely for a serving politician
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