Nigeria, July 24 -- For many years since the rise of culturally motivated banditry and Islamist inspired terrorism in northern Nigeria, the region and its elite have blamed everything and everyone but the main culprits for the widespread insecurity ravaging the country. When it was no longer a problem Goodluck Jonathan's "cluelessness" it became an issue "climate change, poverty and illiteracy" under the northern presidency of Muhammadu Buhari, just as it has been politicised in President Tinubu's Nigeria to be a 'weak and uncaring of the north" government. And whenever government proposes a hard military approach towards tackling the menace of insecurity, the religious, political and technocratic establishment of the north speaking throu...