We start with the sad news of the what happened in Zamfara and Maiduguri yesterday. It doesn't make the start of your day any good by waking up to hear that about 80 innocent people have been murdered, some in cold bold.
The Zamfara situation is worse than that of Maiduguri not only because of the number of causalities involved but because it is a place that is not accustomed to this kind of chaos. Most of the insurgency in Nigeria is based in the North East, probably due to the presence of Boko Haram there. The occurrence of similar events in the North West is strange to say the least.
About 60 people were killed during the incidence which occurred at 4:00 A.M., the invaders were Cattle Wrestlers that were chased down by the vigilante group in Kizara village a while ago. They came back in a vengeful murderous manner killing mostly men, leaving women and children harm free.
The Commissioner of Police Zamfara State Command, Mr. Akila Usman Gwary, who spoke to journalists said however that the official number of casualties is 32, but gave assurance that his command has in place, a team of policemen to maintain law and order in the area.While in Maiduguri, with the state of Emergency still in effect and with phalanx of JTF operatives still in place, suspected members of Boko Haram on Monday killed 22 persons in separate attacks. Apparently, the terrorists were on a revenge mission against youth vigilante groups '' Civilian JTF'' that have been hunting them. The casualties were mostly Fishermen numbering about 13 and 9 students were killed in a separate attack.
Boko haram through a letter claimed the responsibility of carrying out the attacks stating that they have declared a war against youth vigilante groups working together with JTF to capture their members.
The youths remain upbeat though, according to some reports.
They are in a really difficult situation, aren't they? if they fold their arms and do nothing, suspicions and arrest by the JTF, of them being members of Boko haram will continue. Now that they have volunteered to fight for their safety they have made a new enemy in Boko Haram.
The sooner the JTF conclude it task the better for all involved, the JTF shouldn't seek the help of any civilians to capture armed and dangerous terrorists. The civilians are not trained to do that, they should only be used to acquire vital information about the terrorists.
Now on to things that are not all doom and gloom, Nigeria play Uruguay tonight in a game that is of paramount importance to our chance of qualifying to the semis. The Super Eagles need to get a good result if we are to make progress in this competition, We need to cut out the profligacy that saw us waste many chances against Tahiti.
The team should be confident of getting a good result tonight, Uruguay weren't that good against Spain and coming to play us off the back of a defeat, they will be under tremendous amount of pressure. So we should press them high up the pitch, work hard and take our chances as there won't be as many as we had against Tahiti.
From what I've been hearing it seems Ideye is going to start up front. If this is true then, He has to be more efficient in front of goal, the last thing we need is to rue our missed chances after loosing the game.
Uruguay have some dangerous players, whom, when given the chance can hurt us. We should be very careful with Cavani, he is one of the best strikers in the world. Suarez also should be handled carefully because he is a very good finisher, mischievous diver and tends to bite his opponents.
All right that's me done for the day. See you tomorrow after a big win (hopefully).
