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Reckoning with Developmental Diabolitics Enter Nigeria

Omar Alansari-Kreger
Societies that revolve around a centralized patriarchy are ruled by autocrats
complete with a cultural status quo to protect; often times the origin of the patriarchy is
actually culturally derived and as a result gender roles fall into place. However, in light
of the recent kidnappings in Nigeria the big picture is defined by an issue that concerns
morality; that is especially true since the rest of the world is watching while carefully
judging the movements made by the Nigerian authorities to resolve such a grave
situation. That can perhaps explain one of the main reasons why the Nigerian
authorities are taking this situation so seriously.
As a nation, Nigeria is overridden with corruption that is distributed both from the
bottom up and the top down simultaneously; when the culture of corruption becomes
part of the everyday norm a grave problem within the mantra of that particular national
society is at hand. Politics that are both sectarian and tribal complete with the backdrop
of extorted corruption creates political resolutions that breed some of the worst kinds of
desperate retaliation. A great deal of these resolutions is proclaimed in the name of
religion or in this case pseudo Islam. On the contrary, much of Nigerias male youth
succumbs to extremes just to cope with corruption and as a result they become lauded
serfs within an autocrats fiefdom.
One has to wonder, what is the difference between male child soldiers and
women enslaved into the absolute custody of cultural patriarchs? There is really no
international movement pressing governments to wage a wanton campaign against the
epidemic outbreak of child soldiery across the developing world; it is not like child
soldiers dont exist in Nigeria and as a result they are slaves of the same corrupted
system that essentially keeps a nation like Nigeria in the developmental pits. On that
note maybe it isnt too farfetched to suggest that child soldiers are undertaking the
heavy lifting for such a savage operation?
What is the byproduct? Ultimately, the resultant produces reactionary extremists
that exploit desperate measures so that they can take in the spoils of corruption in
hopes of securing a definitive political advantage. An up and coming political struggle
emerging out of the developing world must determine whether it will be part or against
the corruption that directly confronts it; after all, there is a reason why nations remain
firmly within that realm. Those that cant establish structural pillars of progress to their
own tune are left with the dog-eat-dog world of corruptive competition as opposed to
transparent developmental austerity. In reiteration to a previous point, forming an iron
will of determination to reverse the former in preference for the latter is not as simple as
willing to follow through with such a drastic measure.
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The true force to be reckoned with is brought out in all of the interlocking and
interconnecting balances of power that puts a minority elite in an advantage where it
can maximize and proliferate concessions of control for the sole purpose of furthering
interests that in this case are nothing but diabolical. It isnt possible to sustain the
bulwark of a national society when it is based entirely on an abomination that brings out
tribal antics of divide and conquer. What becomes evident is that what relates to Nigeria
directly transfers over to the developing world as a proportional whole.