Abduction of Chibuk Students Story an Act of Sabotage Against Nigeria's War to Defeat Boko Haram Islamic Terrorists
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
The Nigerian Presidency and the Nigerian government are succeeding on the propaganda and military fronts in the war against Boko Haram Islamic terrorists.
The terrorists have been pushed back from their bases in population centres and their attacks severely reduced.
The fight against Boko Haram is being sabotaged in various ways, however.
The most prominent recent demonstration of such sabotage is the reopening, by the principal of the school, of the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria that led to the story of the abduction of more than 200 female students from the school on 15 April, 2014.
The crime has been attributed to Boko Haram because they have been targeting schoolchildren in that region in a war they have initiated against Nigeria from what seems to be their operational centre in Borno State.
The events that enabled this abduction represent sabotage against the Nigerian government's efforts to defeat the terrorists because the abduction was possible only because the principal of the school reopened the school, ostensibly for the students to take examinations, flouting the government's directive that schools in the region must remain closed because of the fragile security situation in Borno State, which is currently under a state of emergency that has pushed the terrorists out of their positions in population centres.
The face of the saboteur is the principal of the school.
For now, she enjoys the sympathy of a bereaved person.
She is to be carefully questioned as to her motives for reopening a school in a war zone.
Her actions are deeply suspect.
The best the government can do in some situations is take precautions.
If citizens flout those precautions, is the government to be blamed?
When in war, you avoid unnecessary risks.
School is closed.
Stay home.
What exams are the children now writing in the hands of the abductors?
Did the principal liase with any of the Nigerian authorities and security agencies about this clearly foolish and suspicious move of opening a school closed in a war zone?
The school is closed for security reasons and the security detail is withdrawn because there is no one in the school.
Why now open a school, on your own initiative, because your want to write an exam in a situation of life and death?
Is it possible to accurately describe the greatness of such idiocy?
What is this I am reading about a military security point opposite the school that inspired confidence on the safety of opening the school?
How true is that?
Even if it is true, was the security point manned?
Was there an agreement with the military to reopen the school?
We are at war.
Help yourself by working with the government and its security agencies to help you.
Don't foolishly flout the directives you are given to help you and then turn round and blame anybody.
The sympathy and pain factor has not led many people to question the awesome absurdity, folly and suspicious behaviour of this school principal.
You open your school against all commonsense, against the government's directives in relation to the war zone you are in, and people turn up to take away the students you called back..
Should such a person, the school principal, not be undergoing serious questioning as a prime suspect?
With the level of funding the terrorists clearly have, is it difficult to sew army uniforms and purchase vehicles to resemble an official military force as the abductors are described as seeming to be?
The bottom line is, this school principal, against all precautions taken by the government and security agencies, created a situation that enabled her students to be abducted.
She almost practically handed them over herself.
She is an accessory to the abduction, deliberately or inadvertently.
The Nigerian government will help you if you allow it to help you.
If you refuse to be helped then who is to be blamed?
Also posted atNigerian Development blog
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Aliyu <aliyu_m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Sabotage by who? Then we can take it from there
Sent from my iPhoneThe war against Boko Haram is being sabotaged.There is no reason why the President should resign.toyin__._,_.___
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