Sunday, 21 June 2015
Nigerian military on Friday bombed suspected Niger Delta militants hideouts.
Nigerian military on Friday bombed
suspected Niger Delta militants hideouts.
The military deployed M17 gunship
helicopter for the air attacks along the
creeks of Calabar suspected to be hideouts
of Niger Delta Militants
The attack lasted for about an hour and
casualty figure in terms of lives and
properties cannot be independently
verified.
Let's go down memory lane •••
In 2013, the then National Leader
for the Congress for Progressive
Change, CPC, Maj. Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, heavily
criticized the declaration of a state
of emergency in Adamawa, Borno
and Yobe states.
Speaking at a Hausa program in
Kaduna, he said the government's
offensive against the Boko Haram
Islamic sect was a grave injustice
against the North.
He said the Federal Government
gave special treatment to the Niger
Delta militants by granting them
amnesty, but the Boko Haram
members were being killed and
their houses destroyed.
He said President Goodluck
Jonathan had failed from the outset
in addressing the problem of
security in Nigeria. He observed
that the security challenge in
Nigeria began with the Niger Delta
area, when politicians, trying to
retain their positions, recruited
youths and armed them to help
them win elections through sheer
brute force.
Buhari said, “What is responsible for
the security situation in the country
was caused by the activities of
Niger Delta militants.
“Every Nigerian that is familiar with
what happened knows this. The
Niger Delta militants started it all.
What happened is that the
governors of the Niger Delta region
at that time wanted to win their
elections, so they recruited the
youths and gave them guns and
bullets and used them against their
opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they
asked the boys to return the guns,
the boys refused to return the guns.
Because of that, the allowance that
was being given to the youths by
the governors during that time was
stopped.
“The youths resorted to kidnapping
oil workers and were collecting
dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18
to 20 years was getting about $500
in a week, why will he go to school
and spend 20 years to study and
then come back and get employed
by government to be paid
N100,000 a month; that is if he is
lucky to get employment?
“So kidnapping became very
rampant in the south-south and the
south-east. They kidnapped people
and were collecting money.
“How did Boko Haram start? We
know that their leader, Mohammed
Yusuf, started his militancy and the
police couldn’t control them and the
army was invited. He was arrested
by soldiers and handed over to the
police.
“The appropriate thing to do,
according to the law, was for the
police to carry out investigations
and charge him to court for
prosecution, but they killed him, his
in-law was killed, they went and
demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters
resorted to what they are doing
today.
“You see in the case of the Niger
Delta militants, the late President
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent an
airplane to bring them, he sat down
with them and discussed with them,
they were cajoled, and they were
given money and granted amnesty.
“They were trained in some skills
and were given employment, but
the ones in the north are being
killed and their houses demolished.
They are different issues, what
brought this? It is injustice.”
(1)Why is the Niger Delta being bombed?
(2)Is Buhari on a revenge mission ?
(3)Is Buhari paying GEJ back for military offensive against
boko haram?
(4)What are the miltitary rules of engagements?
(5)What is the National Assembly saying about this?
(6)Is this why Osinbanjo was locked out of security
meetings?
(7)What is Buhari doing about Fulani herdsmen/terrorists that
have been rampaging States in the North & Middle-belt for
ages,killing men,women & children?
(8)Has Buhari solved the boko haram menace in the North-
East?
Many questions begging for answers,just hoping Buhari is not
fast tracking Nigeria to doomsday¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
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