NIGERIA is a sad country to live in. This is because we are living in the midst of demons. Horned devils afflict us like vicious viruses. Look at what happened in the past one week. On Friday, 11th April 2014, Boko Haram terrorists invaded the venue of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Borno and massacred 200candidates. Two days later, 60 people were killed in in Ngoshe and Kaigamari villages near the border with Cameroon.
As if to remind us that this terror threat is not only a regional jeopardy, the Nyanya Motor Park was car-bombed, leading to the death of 75 persons and injury to more than 200 persons according to revised official figures. And the following day, another heart-rending news hit the front pages and screens of our media: about 100 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. You can imagine the young ages of these children, usually between 11 and 17, the favourite age range for child abusers and paedophiles masquerading behind religion. As a father of two girls within that age bracket, I have not been able to sleep easy at night. My mind boggles at what these beasts could be doing to these innocent tendrils of youth sent to school to be trained to become mothers and leaders of this nation in future.
Unless we find ways to extricating them quickly from these monsters, they may come out totally wrecked physically, mentally and psychologically, with some of them carrying the pregnancies or even offspring of these fiends, being infected with HIV/AIDS and heaven knows what other vile infections, and wracked with vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF). Some might not be lucky to come back alive, as they might be used as human shields when our forces close in on the terrorists. Don’t also dismiss the possibility that some of them could be turned into local versions of British born white woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called “White Widow” implicated in the Al Shabbab siege of Nairobi shopping mall last year, who became a super-charged arrowhead of terror after getting her mind poisoned with Salafist venom. READ MORE>>>>>>>
A careful attitudinal profiling of the Boko Haram terror group’s dreadful exploits shows they are the most wicked of the Islamic terror groups around the world. Other al Qaeda and the groups it inspires, such as Al Shabbab of Somalia, Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Islamic State of Iran and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic separatists of Chechenya in Russia, the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) among a host of others are well known throat slitters. Being able to slaughter a fellow human being or kill in cold blood is regarded as a sign of valour among its soldiers. If you remember how Michael Adebolajo was able to butcher a British soldier, Lee Rigby in Woolwich, England last year in the glare of the public and the Beslan School massacre in 2004 staged by the Chechen rebels led by Doku Usmanov in 2004 (the internet is littered with videos of beheadings by these Islamic terror groups) you will know they have a well formatted universal, coldblooded mode d’emploi.
Boko Haram deeper into infamy
But the Nigerian Boko Haram appears to have moved a step deeper into infamy by targeting innocent, preteen little boys and girls for slaughter or use as sex slaves. Other Islamists have clearly defined targets: government and security personnel and institutions, and sometimes, churches and places of worship belonging to rival Muslim groups. They also target rival clerics and political figures, particularly those with links to the US and the West. But the Nigerian Boko Haram, everyone is fair game. The more defenceless the juicier, since military targets have become more dangerous and difficult to come by and often require suicide attackers to confront.
Boko Haram is still very much a rag-tag armed challenge. It is still a piece of cake for any coordinated and focused response by the Nigerian state. But the problem of Boko Haram has been rendered seemingly formidable by the very nature of the Nigerian society. In other worlds, the Nigerian factor has crept into the fray and a simple matter is becoming increasingly complicated. Just take a look.
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