COMMENT | Like Rip Van Winkle who woke up after a 20-year-long sleep, the powers-that-be are finally waking up to the bitter truth – the dangers of allowing self-appointed guardians of race and religion to spew hatred with their rhetoric.

It was not an overnight phenomenon – it had been happening over the years with politicians playing the Zionist-Israeli card and stoking the fire with wayward statements – renunciations and diatribes against the minority races who happen to profess a different religion.

With arms akimbo watching a spectacle before their eyes, enforcement agencies, although not enjoying them, pretended they not only did not see or hear anything but deemed that such events did not take place.

Two days after GE15, Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani (above) warned social media users...