Abdulmutallab as Nemesis

The misadventure of one Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab , the 23 year-old failed Christmas day suicide bomber, did not come to me as a surprise. Rather, I see it as the harvest, by the country, of the evils sown by our inaction to deal with the authors of religious riots in the Northern part of the country where more than ten thousand innocent souls have perished so far .

"The orgy of bloodshed and blatant disregard for human lives without punishment coming to the culprits must have emboldened the young Mutallab to take the act to the next level"

Decades of bloodbath

For over two decades now, our leaders have been standing akimbo supervising the slaughtering of Christians, Ibos, Yorubas and other settlers in the North with the connivance of the affected states,that hastily sweep the matter under the carpet. If you sow the wind ,you will reap the whirlwind goes an adage . The refusal of theauthority to act decisively has fuelled the suspicion that those acts of terror are usually state sponsored.
The orgy of bloodshed and blatant disregard for human lives without punishment coming to the culprits must have emboldened the young Mutallab to take the act to the next level. Here, the alibi of DoraAkunyili, the information minister, that the failed bomber did not learn or master the act in Nigeria does not hold water. Charity,they say,begins at home.
Law of karma

As an adjunct to this, Abdul Mutallab’s father,Alhaji Umar Mutallab, was once a cabinet minister. This means that he also belongs to the ruling class that pillaged the resources of the country, destroyed the economy,destroyed the educational system and other public institutions in thecountry.Their thinking was that they could always send their children abroad for quality education, after all, as Achebe puts it, our leaders psychically reside abroad .Once this is done, the hapless citizens can go to blazes. See where Law of Karma is waiting for them:he allowed satan and other agents of darkness to make converts of their children abroad .What a nemesis!
No place like home

Now the lesson. North, East, South and West, there is no place likehome. Home is where love is; where you can keep your children and give them good home training. The earlier we join hands and put our house in order to make Nigeria a home for all irrespective of our tribe, whether you are an Hausa, Ibo or Yoruba , the better for us to prevent our youths from going Abdulmuttalab’s way.