Growing up in Nigeria was sort of a wild sport. It was so unsafe. Yet we all continued to live normally. Today Nigeria is way more unsafe.
I’m not sure what it is that fuels the inaction. Could it be trauma from years of military rule? Trauma from experience with armed robbers or state force that hasn’t been healed? Or individual’s hope that one day they’ll have enough to pay for police escorts?
Whatever it is, the inability to protect its citizens is one the Nigerian government’s greatest faIlings.