A
large number of school children were killed today in North-east Nigeria by a
suicide bomber. It was another tragedy in a country that is a key target for
extremists.
I
feel very sorry for the people of Nigeria. But not just because of the mass
killings. Also because the widespread insecurity is the tip of a huge iceberg,
made of large-scale corruption. Plenty of money has been spent on the armed forces and the
police and these institutions are as weak as the rest of the public services. A
good chunk of the resources was wasted and misappropriated.
Institutions have just become facades, nothing
else. That´s why Nigeria, which has a very big military establishment, cannot
deal with Boko Haram. If one takes into account that Boko Haram and the
extremists are just a bunch of unsophisticated terrorists one realises better the
measure of the inefficiency that has resulted from many years of corrupted practices
at very high levels of authority.
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