The Chibok school girls' abduction was actually arranged as a collateral damage, but the reactions that followed went global and spiralled out of control. Meanwhile, some of the girls had escaped on their own, while the rest were kept, fed and raped, even as the Youtube ghost called Shekau was ordered to tell the world that he would marry them off to his soldiers. But as usual, it was all hoax -- that can only fool a fool.
As usual, an
attempt was made to play the 'religion card' to divide Nigerians and
dupe them, but they quickly resisted it. In the same vein, the girls
were said to have been converted to Islam, but Islamic scholars quickly
stressed the invalidity and absolute lack of basis for forceful
conversion to Islam. Then foreign security agents flooded Nigeria, but
never entered Sambisa forest. Then the girls were paid for - to silence
the parents, but the middle men short-changed the parents and left them
more aggrieved.
Then the parents said they were willing to forgo the children as a sacrifice on the condition that the insurgency will be ended, though the protests and blackmail still went on. Many people even used the lost girls to gain cheap popularity, advance their political career or boost their reputation. So, now that the release button has been pressed, the girls are likely to be released soon, and it will be game over. Nevertheless, the pain those parents are going through is better imagined than felt.
But in all, what is most disturbing is the sudden transfusion of a climate of 'forgiveness' that will make Boko Haram get away with all the mayhem and wanton bombings in Abuja, Suleja, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi, Plateau, Adamawa ... in which tens of thousands of ordinary, poor, hustling Nigerians perished. Those who know ' know that the Yusufiyya insurgency that ravaged through select parts of the country in the last four years could have been crushed in just a couple of days - if only it was treated like that enemy that was crushed in 2009, and its founder, Muhammad Yusuf, sent to a burning grave - as he awaits eternal torture at the pit of hell, specially reserved for hypocrites.
Though there is every reasonable reason to be pessimistic about the ceasefire, every patriotic Nigerian should have cause to celebrate its projected political dividends.
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Then the parents said they were willing to forgo the children as a sacrifice on the condition that the insurgency will be ended, though the protests and blackmail still went on. Many people even used the lost girls to gain cheap popularity, advance their political career or boost their reputation. So, now that the release button has been pressed, the girls are likely to be released soon, and it will be game over. Nevertheless, the pain those parents are going through is better imagined than felt.
But in all, what is most disturbing is the sudden transfusion of a climate of 'forgiveness' that will make Boko Haram get away with all the mayhem and wanton bombings in Abuja, Suleja, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi, Plateau, Adamawa ... in which tens of thousands of ordinary, poor, hustling Nigerians perished. Those who know ' know that the Yusufiyya insurgency that ravaged through select parts of the country in the last four years could have been crushed in just a couple of days - if only it was treated like that enemy that was crushed in 2009, and its founder, Muhammad Yusuf, sent to a burning grave - as he awaits eternal torture at the pit of hell, specially reserved for hypocrites.
Though there is every reasonable reason to be pessimistic about the ceasefire, every patriotic Nigerian should have cause to celebrate its projected political dividends.
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