Nigeria, March 25 -- Evidence has continued to emerge by the day that insecurity in the country has gone haywire, which the gruesome massacre of 17 soldiers by hoodlums in Okuama community in Delta State on 14 March is an irrefutable corroboration. The deceased were not only killed; 14 of them were beheaded and had their internal organs, such as hearts, and private parts gouged out. This is a heinous, inhuman and most wicked act of savagery.

As the tragedy coincided with the kidnapping, by bandits and Boko Haram, of over 500 pupils and citizens in schools and in Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) camps, in Kaduna and Borno states, clearly, the country's security apparatchiks have their work well cut out. As expected, the grotesque incid...