USA Africa Dialogue Series - It Can Never Happen Here - by Olusegun Adeniyi

It Can Never Happen Here - by Olusegun Adeniyi

Written by Olusegun Adeniyi

Thursday, 01 September 2011 20:16

I remember when the wave of terrorism heightened at the beginning of the last decade, it was considered too distant a phenomenon to worry about here even when there had been explosions at the United States' embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. When Farouk Muttallab was caught trying to blow up a Delta Airlines flight in December 2009 and the United States' government wanted to link our nation with terror, we easily wriggled out by claiming that Farouk caught the bug abroad; afterall, he was not schooling in Nigeria. We all took the ugly incident in our strides, believing it could never happen on our shores. Now, the chicken has come home to roost with last Friday bombing of the United Nations head office right here in Abuja. With no place to hide anymore, we can no longer live in denial as a nation: In Nigeria, as in other countries, anything and everything can indeed happen!

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