At the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, President Buhari of Nigeria advocated the creation of a database of terrorists on the African continent.

Good going, Mr. President, except that I doubt that there will be a definitional consensus on the key subject of terrorism. And it wouldn't be completely unprecedented. Your predecessor did propound the rather bizarre theory that official stealing is not corruption. So, Mr. President, before you go grandstanding on terrorist database, why not first have a common baseline on who is a terrorist?

The terror in town in Nigeria today is the menace of Fulani herdsmen. Have you recognized those murderous herdsmen as terrorists? I don't know that you have. But if you have, then the problem might not be the absence of a terrorist database. The problem might just be your strange and unexplainable lack of will to combat terrorism. Worse still, your selectivity on the jurisprudence of terror.

Had you engaged the rampaging Fulani herdsmen terrorists with half the will, zeal, and swiftness that you brought to the IPOB python dance, scores and hundreds of innocent men, women, children, and entire families in Benue and elsewhere would still be alive today.

Truth is, in the end, leaders and policymakers will receive forgiveness for ordinary policy mistakes. But standing by, in tacit acquiescence, as innocent women and children are slaughtered in savage gory macabre, is one sin that God will not forgive, not in this life, not in the...

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