Who Killed Yahya Masussuka? In Economics, we learnt that if you want to make a product expensive, ban it. In politics, if you want to make an activist relevant, arrest him. In ideology, if you want to create a martyr out of someone, kill him. In history, if you want to immortalise people, ideas or places, deny them. That's what lead me to believe if Masussuka was killed by ideology to silence him, the intellectual history of the world suggests that's a terrible mistake. History books are over-populated by mediocre people who preached ridiculous ideas that suddenly become martyrs simply because they were killed. Why give him free promotion and permanent place in the memory of history? Again, if Masussuka was killed by the grand chess-masters who experiment on society to alter the natural course of history by making him more relevant because that's the evil-genius thing to do, then the people celebrating his death have fallen into a trap that superior thinkers laid for them. Mainly, because its possible that Masussuka wasn't killed by ideology, but now nothing and no one can convince the popular opinion otherwise. To even suggest it will trigger mass denial. And that way his ideological adversaries would have to carry the burden of proof forever. And if you don't know, let me tell you that's a very foolish burden to carry! Likewise the killers of Yahya Masussuka could be bandits who simply want an alternative perspective to exist in their violent domain, possibly because ideological-inclination would now begin to think Dutsin-ma isn't only plagued by greed-terror of banditry but also the violent extremism of ideological assassination. But no one would believe that as well. Although, whatever you believe serve them very well. The killers could also be politicians who want public attention to move elsewhere for a long time and with massive intensity so they can gain breathing space to prepare for what is and what will be. But that would be a very ridiculous thing to conceive – exactly as they would've wanted. Personally, as someone who disagree with his ideas, I wanted him to be judged by the slow and ruthless jury of time, not the bullets of cowardice that will plunge us into another perpetual blame-game. I wanted him to live long enough to see the inconsistencies of his interpretations and flaws of his errors, to get reformed by the sheer strength and inevitability of the truth he aimed to crack down, and gradually disappear into the pages of history — just like many of his likes — as a soundly, peacefully and happily lived public intellectual who experimented the instrument of dialogue and either won or lost. But that's no longer possible; either because of stupid people or because of people who want to take advantage of stupidity. Finally, that's why I believe what killed Yahya Masussuka is his environment. An environment where every manner of evil has a ripe platform to become possible. Banditry is possible. Political assassination is possible. Ideological extremism is possible. Vendetta is possible. Everything bad is possible. And simply because those in-charge of the environment have, for many decades, operate on the belief that everything will self-navigate, self-sustain and self-correct; which is why they send ignoramuses to the parliament and government houses in the name of godfatherism, useless dimwits to sensitive agencies as recruits in the name of empowerment and federal character; to become the government, to create and implement policies that will produce worst people than them, consequently creating a more ripe environment where nobody is safe. Indeed, Yahya Masussuka was killed by the collective stupidity of the Nigerian society; smart people who aren't so smart. And if you don't fear that society, you're already killed, you just don't know it, yet.