(CNN) -- A radio host pointed it out to me on my book tour, with alarm: a chapter in my new book -- written three years ago about my president, Goodluck Jonathan, and his handling of Boko Haram, terror and insecurity in Nigeria -- could have been written today, almost word for word. "The truth is that I don't feel safe," I wrote in "Searching for a Vote of Confidence." "I, like many others living in Nigeria, will myself to feel safe, knowing I must take the risk and get onto the roads each day; we have no choice. But when it comes to the meat of it, you cannot possibly, really feel safe. Children have been kidnapped; average Nigerians' parents, "big men" (the elite), "oyinbos" (foreigners), and celebrities -- from the forbidding Pete Edochie to the clownish Mr. Ibu -- have been kidnapped; government officials have been kidnapped, and now youth corps members have been kidnapped."
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Nigeria "desperate with hopelessness" over kidnapped girls, says Chude Jideonwo
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He criticizes the country's leaders for their inaction
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"The government must earn the trust of its people," he says
On 14 April 2014, it happened again -- like @placeholder had never seen before.