Perry Brimah: ‘Some guy’ went to school but what does ‘sanctions against Boko Haram’ mean?
The
President of Nigeria and other African ‘leaders’ were summoned to
‘school’ in France last week. They needed to be instructed by the sons
of the colonialists on how to protect human life.
The President of Nigeria and
other African ‘leaders’ were summoned to ‘school’ in France last week.
They needed to be instructed by the sons of the colonialists on how to
protect human life. To some, this summoning on this shameful
proliferation of terror in Nigeria, is OK. But to those of us who see
Nigeria as going backward to the stone ages and not forward, this is a
day of sorrow, regret and overwhelming shame. We took our bloody filthy
linen to master. This is the result of the ‘election’ of clueless,
shoeless leaders. This is the result of hopeless tribalism, irreligious
religiousism, and sheer stupidity.
Late Yar’Adua addressed this
same terror crises swiftly and entirely, while also simultaneously
adequately controlling a dangerous crises in the Niger Delta creeks.
Late Yar’Adua had a contingency plan to extinguish the embers of Boko
Haram. He even initialed a program to monitor and license all preachers
in Borno, to forestall any resurgence of radicalism; and this program
was accepted by the religious leaders in the State. There were several
high level constructive discussions on how to deal with the few who
might have escaped
and how to prevent the re-establishment of Boko Haram
or any similar assembly. But one thing we lack in our hopeless colonial
democracy is any form of sensible continuation… and that’s just one
more thing out of a million.
Shagari with his military
commander, Buhari quelled several crises including Habre’s Chad invasion
and Maitatsine crises of our earlier history. Nigeria with ECOMOG
solved Liberia’s crises. But today, we cannot control clearly defined,
ridiculous crises in our north east, and verily and truly, resurging in
our South as well. 168 million Nigerians and our African partners
‘cannot’ crush Boko Haram, so ‘some guy’ had to drag other neighboring
Presidents to the colonial master’s school for training. And that is the
colonial master who has hardly ever solved any problem without leading
to five more immediate problems and twenty more in the distant future.
OK, so the guy went to school
and suddenly started singing very different songs: that Boko Haram had
killed ’12,000’ people he sang, and injured 8,000. We have never heard
this from the some guy before. The number actually is 40,000-80,000
killed and over 200,000 injured, but still, this was interesting to hear
from him. He went on to sing that Boko Haram was Africa’s al Qaeda, not
AQIM, LRA, LIFG, Al Shabaab, no it was Boko Haram; and not many as a
network, just Boko Haram. It appears he needed to sing real loud to
force us to appreciate why he had to go to school. We were just waiting
to hear him sing that Boko Haram had acquired nuclear technology and
detonated two bombs. Perhaps he did say so; haven’t yet reviewed all the
songs he sang.
Do not for one minute get this
wrong. Boko Haram is indeed a terrible, terrible threat. We have been
saying so since 2012, or rather, 2011, when he surprisingly ‘pinpointed’
those behind the Abuja bombing while exculpating those who admitted
carrying it out. So it must be that these new songs were in the study
guide he was given to read enroute school. Thank God. It is about time.
#DiaRISGODo!
Let’s for the purpose of the new
reader, describe this government at the least as being tolerant to
terror. This fact cannot be denied or diminuted. To us it was a surprise
and disappointment that some guy was not arrested in school. Let’s be
candid here and review our predicament with the honesty the 234 girls in
the bushes would require of us. This government has completely
tolerated terror over the past four years, so I wonder, how do you
discus with such people in school? Was the class session honest at all?
Are we being fooled here? Is there reason to be hopeful? Many especially
in Nigeria do not understand what supporting and financing terror is
and how this is causing terror, death and abductions with unlimited
pain.
Bamanga Tukur, then chairman of
the ruling PDP political Party, said, ‘Boko Haram is fighting for
justice; Boko Haram is another name for justice.’ Christian Association
of Nigeria, CAN at the time complained bitterly about this, wondering
why the media did not scream about it. They were correct. This statement
promoted and supported Boko Haram terror and still does today as it is
yet to be retracted and the culprit is employed in sensitive public
office by no other than ‘some guy.’ How In a world that rotates around
the Sun, can such a person who made a clear terrorist statement, be
officially maintained in his post as Party chair and then appointed by
the President as head of Nigeria’s railway corporation, and that
‘President’ is invited to France to discuss terror dismantling Nigeria?
That is like inviting Idi Amin to USA to discuss terror within his
country. Are we supposed to become children or stupid here to understand
international politics or does Paris tolerate and support this terror
promoting government as well?
CAN president said: “The statement by Bamanga Tukur is frightening
and threatens the existence of Nigeria as a Nation. For such a statement
to come from a man of his caliber, it is something all of us should be
worried about. “I am surprised that the media are yet to take him up on
the statement to explain to Nigerians and to the World, whose justice he
is talking about. The PDP national chairman has become the spokesman
for Boko Haram.” [The Nation; 24/05/2012]
We can continue to list several
Nigerian current and past government officials and their private
partners indicted in the direct support, sponsorship and promotion of
terror in Nigeria, who are protected by the current administration.
These persons are the simple reason why Boko Haram is alive, healthy and
deadly today. They are the fuel of the fire that burns ordinary
Nigerians. ENDS has in its possession video recordings of the
confessions of arrested Boko Haram members who said that the ex-Governor
of Borno State was a sponsor of the group. Of course we can and will
furnish this as and where demanded. The Abba Moro White paper report on
Nigeria’s President and NSA Dasuki’s desks since 2012 lists these
persons among others behind the evolution of Boko Haram terror. This is
serious. This is the reason why we have Boko Haram eliminating the
farming villages in Nigeria’s north.
What Is ‘Sanctions Against Boko Haram?’Now, the master/teacher said at the end of the session in France that sanctions will be imposed on the terror groups. We have been piqued by this submission of the school that held in France since we heard it. They said they were committed to prioritizing the hasty “implementation of international sanctions against Boko Haram, Ansaru and their main leaders, within the United Nations framework.”
On 7th of May this year, ENDS made a serious, clear and detailed call for UN sanctions and strong resolutions against Nigerian government officials and their private partners who created and permitted an atmosphere of terror with some implicated in directly sponsoring terror in the nation. [See ENDS] We believe this is clear and logical. International sanctions are effective and meaningful against nations whose duty it is to limit the activity of bandits and terror associations in their State. Nigeria deserves such sanctions against and for the reasons we earlier stated: the continued impunity for terror sponsors and supporters in Nigeria. If Nigeria’s government clamped down on all supporters and sponsors of terror in Nigeria, Boko Haram would be snuffed out and new terror groups evolving ahead of the ‘upcoming’ 2015 elections will die before their birth. Boko Haram terror in Nigeria is the direct result of the government tolerance of terror, at the very least as earlier stated, and frank support of terror, candidly put; with associated sabotage of the security outfit while sponsoring ex-militant terrorists(like Tompolo)with same funds for military development, further mortgaging any possibility of security of life and property.
What sanctions against Boko
Haram are to be initiated? At last are the UN, US and France moving
ahead to hastily proscribe the group and finally declare it a terror
organization (FTO) so its global transactions and communications
world-wide including through and with Nigerian officials and the
officials themselves become criminal(s) to be arrested or killed locally
and internationally? ‘Sanctions’ gives official State recognition to an
entity. There are three reasons for which international sanctions are
given: Sanctions are either to ‘force cooperation,’ to ‘ to contain a
threat to peace’ or handed out by the Security Councils to condemn
actions of nations. What is to be sanctioned? We hope the sanctions
being initiated are the proper sanctions against the entire organization
and the government of Nigeria and their private partners who the world
knows are directly and indirectly behind Boko Haram terrorism; with the
‘missing,’ looted billions of Nigeria’s commonwealth being much of the
money that sponsors Boko Haram.
We would like to know, did ‘some guy’ ask why international
governments, now alleging commitment to abating the crises he has let
out of hand, have been hesitant to list Boko Haram as a terror
organization, with the United States merely listing three members as
terrorists and refusing to list the organization in entirety as one? Was
he allowed to ask questions in school or he only went to study and take
notes? When shall we see Boko Haram listed globally as a terror
organization?Was the Algerian approach to its similar Boko Haram crises that plagued the North African nation between 1991 and 2000, in which it trained and armed civilian self-defense patriots who helped abate the problem, raised at the meeting?
Do we have hope in this
international ‘commitment’ or are we simply taking some guy to make more
mockery of us and our plight? Nigeria has a serious security problem on
its hands and we have no government or security agency and force to
tackle it. It is a shame that the people of this great country and its
neighbors ‘could not’ solve this problem. But regardless of this, we
have no time for fancy coating. People are dying every single day in the
hundreds. The people of Nigeria are ready to and have stood up to
tackle the administrative sponsored monster that kills us; we have no
time for games.
With regret and yet glory to the
Almighty, we pray for the 49 more innocent farmers killed in Damboa in
this government tolerated Boko Haram onslaught against Nigeria’s
northern farming villages. We pray and support the civilian armed
resistance against terror and celebrate their victories and their
killing of over 300 Boko Haram terrorists in the last 10 days and
arresting of others from whom much vital information and equipment was
retrieved. We support this real initiative that promises to end Boko
Haram insurgency in the near future.
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Dr. Peregrino Brimah for http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
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