USA Africa Dialogue Series - Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

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From: olakassimmd <olakassimmd@aol.com>
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Sent: Mon, May 12, 2014 9:37 pm
Subject: RE: Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

4. I am a Southerner who would REFUSE to buy the argument that Boko Haram was created to wrest power from the South because Boko Haram was already harassing and killing people when Yar'Adua was in power; Yar'Adua is from Kastina, the heart of the North!

Yes, Boko Haram activities has escalated over the years; but the attempt to use the North-South political sentiments to distract Nigerians from mounting a common front to confront evil is very UNACCEPTABLE!

Take care. JUI

 

JUI:

 

Thanks for setting things out so clearly and in such a simplistic manner

so that the dullards in the class (whose cadre include

not only the ethnic jingoists (apologies to yourself)
but some of the loudest mouths on Nigerian cyberspace) might finally get what the rest of the class already know !!!!!

 

Nigeria is in a terrible mess right now--not necessarily because she has a

government that exists in name only but because the vast majority of

her so-called enlightened (educated) citizenry frequently revert back to

their primitive tribal instincts whenever there are issues of national concern to

be addressed.

 

The maxim that --"the people always deserve the type of government (leadership)

they get" could never be  truer than it is currently in Nigeria..

 

It won't be long before one of our resident 'geniuses' comes up with the theory

that Obama invented and funded the Boko Haram as a pretext to the

taking over of Nigerian oil and mineral resources by the USA and the rest of

the western world.

 

I would even go further by suggesting that after successfully rescuing our girls

who are currently being held captive by the Boko Haram, we should be begging for more
assistance from the USA and other progressive governments throughout the world--no matter
whether they are capitalist, communist or socialist in orientation. Beggars that we are are--have no choices. We might even consider outsourcing the

entire governance of Nigeria--since we have not only shown that we are incapable

of protecting hundreds of innocent girls from being kidnapped and held captive for weeks

by the Boko Haram we also do not have sufficient resources to run our governments at all levels because our political leaders can't stop stealing.

 

Today, the citizens of North Korea, a pariah nation in the eyes of most of the world, live a better life than than most Nigerians.

So, if we can get help from Kim Jung Hu (or whatever his name is) we should seek it begging

on our knees--not necessarily as citizens of a failed or failing nation, but because we have collectively proven that we are a failed people--notwithstanding the tremendous human and natural resources that the Almighty God has bestowed on us and on our native abode. We have collectively managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and failure from the jaws of success!

 

Some Nigerians have no shame!

We hail from a country with a government that had for several decades been unable to provide basic security of life and property for her citizens--anywhere in the country from the

Mushin and Isolo slums  in Lagos to Enugu, Benin City and Ibadan all the way to Kaduna, Kano and

Maiduguri all the way back to the farthest and remotest and tiniest hamlets and villages in Nigeria----long before the Boko Haram came into existence.

 

The armed robbers operating freely on the Ore-Benin highway and similar highways all over Nigeria have probably killed more

Nigerians in the last two decades than the Boko Haram terrorists have done since GEJ took over the government of Nigeria. Tens of thousands of Nigerians die from or are permanent disabled from motor vehicle accidents every year--because of our bad roads and poorly maintained vehicles.

 

Even with all these calamities--both small and large befalling their motherland--all

these people with shriveled putty brains can think of is to reduce everything to their

tribal common denominators. If it is not the North vs the South, it is the Igbo vs the Yoruba or

the Christians (the CAN) vs the Muslims (the Islamic Council of Nigeria).

Meanwhile the Boko Haram keeps on killing and kidnapping our peoples unchecked like there is no tomorrow!

 

I seriously doubt if the Nigerian armed forces which is already so badly demoralized would have the capacity to defend against the Boko Haram if it continues (with continuing funding from Saudi Arabia) on its southward move to takeover Abuja and major cities in the SW and the SE including Lagos.

 

The average Nigerian foot soldier is probably now in a 'who wan die mode?'--asking him/herself whether or not Nigeria is worth dying for when the first to flee the battle fields are the Commanding officers--when the Boko Haram goons show up.

 

All these people with big mouths who are always calling for the dismemberment of Nigeria

from the comforts of their homes in North America and Europe would never be found hurrying home to join the liberation forces that would defend their hometowns against the Boko Haram. Their threats of  wanting their own banana republics to be carved out of Nigeria--are probably not worth a penny more than the strokes on their keyboards.

Now let those Neo Biafrans, the Odua'a Republic advocates and advocates for an AREWA republic --suit up and arm up to defend

their motherlands against the Boko Haram goons! Your opportunity beckons!

 

As you wrote, all Nigerians are losers in the Boko Haram crisis.

The biggest and proximate losers are northern Nigerians regardless of where they

hail from in the north and regardless of their religious faith, their levels of educational

attainment and their socioeconomic status. The NE is currently Boko Haram territory--

if not in reality but at least psychological terms!
The vast majority of Nigerians in the NE probably fear the Boko Haram more than they fear the Nigerian police or the Nigerian armed forces.
They no longer believe that the either one federal or their state governments or both have the capacity to protect their lives and properties The rest of the north might follow suit if the Boko Haram cancer is not eradicated soon

 

The second category of big losers are all Nigerian Muslims and all those who

truly believe in Islam as one of the great religions. The Boko Haram has in one fell swoop

destroyed even more than the Al Queeda, al Shabbab and similar fundamentalist Islamic

terrorist groups the image of Islam as a religion that truly has as one of its tenets the promotion of peaceful co-existence amongst all human beings including, believers and non-believers alike. The Boko Haram has single handedly  tarnished the image of Islam not only in Nigeria and the rest of Africa but in fact throughout the world.

It will take a long time to repair this damage.

 

Unfortunately, the millions of true Muslims who are adhere faithfully to the tenets of their religion not only bear the burden of this negative image of Islam, they also have to overcome the onerous challenge of proving to the rest of the world that true Islam is Not what the Boko Haram portrays it to be,

 

 How do they persuade the rest of the world that Islam is truly a peaceful religion, when the  name of the religion is increasingly evoked by the Boko Haram and similar terrorist organizations throughout the world to kill innocent human beings and  kidnap young girls with threats of marrying them off or selling them as slaves to willing buyers for as little as $12.00 US.?

How do they disengage the name of the religion and the founder Prophet Mohamed from these animals in human skin?

 

 

The third category of losers are all other Nigerians who do not fit into either one of the above two categories.

.

Personally, I have never felt so downcast as I am now about the prospects for Nigeria ever since the early days of the 419 scams.

 

Nigeria was at its lowest ebb last week--when our own President and Commander of the

Nigerian Armed Forces openly admitted  what the rest of the world world already know--

that the Nigerian Armed Forces lack the capacity to confront and defeat the Boko Haram

and all our First Lady could do was to weep hysterically on TV---appealing for God's help!.

 

The above admission by President Jonathan says it all. We Nigerians are telling the world that we are incapable

of governing and protecting ourselves. We could as well simply outsource the governance of Nigeria to those from other countries who can do a better job!

 

Let us compare and contrast  the feeble, weak and hesitant gestures of our own President on the issue of the kidnapping of the Chibok girls by the Boko Haram with the confident and composed posture of the equally distressed Prime Minister of Malaysia when his country was faced with the issue of the ongoing missing Malaysia flight 370! Both leaders were seeking assistance from the rest of the world

for a crisis beyond their government's control. One leader made his appeal with his head

held high up; the other in a manner depicting nothing else but a total lack of confidence!

 

 

We currently do not have a 'real' government in Nigeria!

 

To all those who would jump up and lynch President Jonathan because of his lack of

leadership on the Boko Haram menace, I wish to state that the President does not act alone

on all matters. He has advisers--who probably include some of the best brains that Nigeria

has to offer the world. If these advisers can't get it right, what are the prospects that any other

Nigerian President and another set of advisers would do any better?

 

The bottom line: The GEJ government, with all its warts and all, is probably the best government Nigerians deserve at this moment in our national history. My hope is that as we approach the farthest depth of the abyss on our current trajectory, that we as a people would wake up to finally confront our destiny!

 

According to Frantz Fanon

"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

 

The failures of the GEJ government are  collective failures of all Nigerians!

 

May our children and grandchildren do a better job than we have done in the managemen

of the affairs of our motherland, Nigeria.  Amen

 

Bye,

 

Ola

 

 

 

 

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From: Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID) (CDC/OID/NCEZID) <jbi8@cdc.gov>
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Sent: Mon, May 12, 2014 4:30 pm
Subject: RE: [africanworldforum] RE: Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

Chris,

Consider the following FACTS before we get DISTRACTED WITH POLI-TRICKS and other opportunistic, self-serving conspiracy theories:

1. The emergence of Boko Haram pre-date the Jonathan's administration; FACT!

2. Irrespective of the killings and destructions so far, the citizens in the NE region governed by the Northern Governors are the most affected by the Boko Haram menace; the majority of the abducted little girls who are in miseries in the forests or caves are Northerners; FACT!

3. Boko Haram has killed prominent Emirs, attacked the and wounded some Emirs such as the Emir of Kano and threatened several others like the Sultan of Sokoto; FACT!

4. I am a Southerner who would REFUSE to buy the argument that Boko Haram was created to wrest power from the South because Boko Haram was already harassing and killing people when Yar'Adua was in power; Yar'Adua is from Kastina, the heart of the North!

Yes, Boko Haram activities has escalated over the years; but the attempt to use the North-South political sentiments to distract Nigerians from mounting a common front to confront evil is very UNACCEPTABLE!

Take care. JUI

 

 

From:africanworldforum@googlegroups.com [mailto:africanworldforum@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 2:29 PM
To:africanworldforum@googlegroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com; All Nigerians In Diaspora; Naija Politics
Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

 

Are you people looking and believing in the 'arangee'video? 

 

No Chibok school children was kidnapped. everything about this is pre-arranged by Northern governors who are working directly with Boko Haram, hoping that they can use violence to secure 2015.

 

Please tell this people that they must wait until every other sections of the country has ruled for 38 years. Watch my lips, Northern Nigeria will not rule in 2015, they will not rule in 2019.

 

Chris

On Monday, May 12, 2014 6:58 PM, 'Yeye Rolling' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

Joe:

 

We are running on auto-government..

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From:"Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID)"<jbi8@cdc.gov>
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Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 12:45 PM
Subject: [africanworldforum] RE: Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

 

So these activities are going on in NE Nigeria, trucks moving possibly in convoys, these children are eating and drinking, and Boko Haram members are still communicating among their members and supporters but nobody has a clue where abducted are or where hideouts are located? Na wa o! Wallahi if most Nigerians do their jobs as the Nigerian security and defense agents perhaps nothing will be functioning in the country!!! Tufi-akwa!

Frankly one cannot help but fascinated by how the country still goes on with this level of inaction and inefficiency in several of the operational systems: road maintenance, airports, sea ports, Police, the army etc. JUI

 

From:naijaintellects@googlegroups.com [mailto:naijaintellects@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Elombah Elsdan
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 1:34 PM
To: All Nigerians In Diaspora
Subject: [Naijaintellects] Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

 

Video showing 130 of the kidnapped girls suggests Boko Haram are willing to talk

Written by Ogbuefi Blogs

Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria on 14 April. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said the children would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed.

Read more...

http://www.elombah.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu/22646-video-showing-130-of-the-kidnapped-girls-suggests-boko-haram-are-willing-to-talk

 

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