These are not 'recent makings', the current state of the country is the result of decades of poor governance, weak institutions and a solidification, in society, of the impression that the State is helpless and useless in the face of certain elements and their actions. Tie in poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and a general disgust, despair and sense of hopelessness with the direction the country is going in and the conditions for the kinds of depraved violence and chaos (along the lines of what we see today) are perfect ...