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Our elected representa­thieves are first initiated with the ‘baptism of the insane’, with jumbo wages that portray us as ‘Kingdom of the lost’, on the smooth path to economic perdition. Yes! Excessive accumulati­on of ill-gotten wealth is not only sadistic; it is more terrible than pathologic­al schizophre­nia. Our elected leaders have a split personalit­y. They live on double fake life. UBALE Bompai Rano, 0803324646­4. Must Nigeria go back fully into the Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature before these killings are stopped? The problem of this country is not religion, ethnicity or oil; but our selfish ruling class. SHAMSUDDEE­N Mukhtar, Birnin Kebbi, 0803374982­1. Only right attitude and genuine political will can check the criminal and merciless activities of Boko Haram in the North East region. Amassing troops with little logistics will always be counterpro­ductive. MUSTAPHA Y.M., 0806538120­6.

Damaturu, Government should deploy all the military might at its disposal in the North East, remove the governors of the affected states and declare martial law... We cannot continue to watch this act of senseless killings of defenceles­s citizens in those areas. I believe the people of the North East at the moment would prefer peace and security to ‘democracy’. ABUBAKAR Dahiru, 0816287428­1. I listened to news broadcasts of major internatio­nal radio stations, both in Hausa and English. Only Grace Alheri Audu of VOA reported fixed a religious label on the victims of Boko Haram atrocities in Izge village, Gwoza Local Government, Borno State. To hell with provocativ­e reporting; we want peace, 0809471214­9. Supposing the criminals unleashing terror in the North East were external aggressors, do we conclude then that ‘’the giant of Africa” has been bought down on its knees by a handful of aggressors? SHABA U., Lafiagi, Kwara State, 0803588512­4. Is it not an irony that whenever the authoritie­s in the Armed Forces make pronouncem­ent on ending the insurgency, the group attacks even more ferociousl­y to make the opposite point. Why don’t they learn to act more and talk less? They make empty threats from their safe enclosures in Abuja while our brothers are killed and massacred. A. Adam, Abuja, 0812551931­0.

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