How the North failed Hauwa Limam and other girls
By Abdullahi Haruna Haruspice

Every morning, families join hands to pray for Leah Sharibu. Here, with the days she spent in captivity, Hauwa Limam groaned all alone until they slit her throat and left her dead. Her government failed her, her religion abandoned and she died even before she was killed. The Christians are obviously more united in tragedies than the Muslims, unlike the Muslims, they pray endlessly interceding for Leah Sharibu, holding candlelight processions and dropping her image in the consciousness of every christian. They help her carry the burden of cruelty unleashed on her by the beasts in human garb. We know every soul shall taste death but not in the hands of men but the Almighty.

We know the families of Leah Sharibu because her brethren in faith made it a duty to stand by them. Their photos are used as DPs, shared on social media and talked on radio and showed on tv. Juxtapose this to Hauwa Limam, no tv mention, no social media hashtag, no combine prayers in the mosque. With her family, she was left alone at the mercy of the bloodthirsty monsters.

Any society that does not value her human resources is a world perpetually tied to chaos. The north is what it is today because of the inaction of her elites. So much injustice and inequality have weakened the region to her knees. The gap between the rich and the poor is frightening so wide that no despite whatsoever in bridging the links. While the rich live in tall fenced walls, the poor struggles to live in slums and squalor. Life in northern Nigeria is unfairly nasty. It is this kind of imbalance that caused the eventual reign of the insurgents where lives have become deadly meaningless in the region.

The north must go back to the inner room and pick up the template of purposeful existence from the imprints of late Aminu Kano, Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Bala Usman, Laila Dogon Yaro. The region is so defined with inequality that all the elites have different schools for their kids, hospitals and workplace. A visit to all the juicy government establishments like the CBN, FIRS, NDIC, NCC, NNPC etc are populated by the children of the northern elites while virtually no consideration is given to the children of the talakawas.

How do you find peace in a place littered with debris of injustice, suppression and inequality? The story of Hauwa Limam is one of many tragedies facing the north especially their women, girls and children. Like other regions, the north must extricate herself from the entitlement of feudalism, come together to build her society, invest heavily in her teeming youths and make8 education a priority. The era of having segregated society is over, the people you suppress are no longer smiling but turning the table against you in constricted anger. What is the essence of your riches when you can't live in peace?

For Hauwa Limam, let the tears of the world burn like hot coal on the bodies of those who seized your breath.

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We should also talk about how the northern talakawas or poor have help their elites maintain their stronghold on all of us.

The region is so defined with inequality that all the elites have different schools for their kids, hospitals and workplace. A visit to all the juicy government establishments like the CBN, FIRS, NDIC, NCC, NNPC etc are populated by the children of the northern elites while virtually no consideration is given to the children of the talakawas.

And what do the poor do whenever they have a chance? They support their oppressors. Stolkholm syndrome.

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And what do the poor do whenever they have a chance? They support their oppressors. Stolkholm syndrome.

hmm.

The Otueke man failed chibook girls. sai bubu!

forgiveness:
The Otueke man failed chibook girls. sai bubu!

hmm.
real truth.

To solve this problem.the north really needs to redefine the relationship between their elites & the masses.

Writer is on point, northern society is soulless.