Help end senseless Boko Haram killings in Nigeria, Mr Trump

Families bury their close ones in a mass grave in the village of Maiyanga in Central Nigeria on December 27, 2023. [Kim Masara, AFP]

From 2009, under the full administration of different democratically elected presidents, killings, kidnapping, burning of homes, schools and churches, mass displacements, closure of schools, bandits ruling in captured territories and loss of livelihoods, among a litany of other woes, have largely characterised the landscape of Nigeria, cutting across north, east, south, west and in between. No place is safe!

Thousands of lives have been lost. Properties worth billions have been ruined. Trillions worth of livelihood resources have been lost, wasted or outrightly abandoned in flight from danger and threat to life. Ransom payments to kidnappers amounting to trillions have become a lucrative business. Huge security spending amounting to trillions with no visible results have become a new platform for corruption.