The Burden Of Boko Haram By Leo Igwe

The hot incedent of B .H in the country is geting out of hand.Our confidence on d president is a failure.that is why the bible says that "the trust in man is a zero". The nigerians are hoping unto God to replace Goodluk jonathan with a God fearing man and not a ruler like pharaoh that perish away in the sea.

station strong millitary and intelligence base in Chad and Niger to start with. constitute a special tribunal for ethnic and religious terrorism. establish a special bureau (FEARR)-Federal Ethnic and Religious Riots, Bureau that should be immensely mobile (Helicopters,jets etc)immensely communicative, immensely armed and cross disciplinarily recruited i.e. should also constitute of pastors, Imams, Historians etc aside military/Police, attache and many undercover agents in Nigeria and all over the place. Their establishing mandate should not only be reactive but strongly proactive. Yes it would take immense resources(you may need to first tackle political corruption) and more detailed planning (you may need to actually ...think).

A group of 40 men, mostly of Southern Nigerian origin met at 1456 hours yesterday in an undisclosed house somewhere in an important town, 40 miles of Enugu. The agenda was on what to do to stop the insensitive killing of people, estimated now to be up to 6 million, which began since colonial times by the Hausa-Muslims in Nigeria. Strategies were taken and action is to start on the day the next devilish bomb will be thrown by the BH (hereinafter known as Dday).
Within hours of Dday, there will be:
(1) The bombing of the Central Mosque at Abuja with a helicopter to be readily made available by one of the men.
(2) The bombing of any muslim gathering in Southeast Nigeria on Dday or on the Friday after Dday.
(3) The bombing of the National Assembly by the same helicopter on Dday.
(4) The bombing of targeted people within Nigeria or abroad who are the sponsors of the Boko Haram hours after Dday.
(5) The destruction of Aso Rock, or if abortive, the damage thereof.
SIGNED: UNKNOWN

1980 May. Religious violence in Zaria. Much property is destroyed. 1980 December 18-20 Riots in Kano. The Maitatsine sect, 4, 177 are killed. *1982 September 29 ? October 3. Disturbances in Kaduna, Kaduna State. 53 killed and many churches are burned. *1982 October 29-30 . Further trouble in Maiduguri, Borno State, Maitatsine sects. 118 die. *1984 February 27 - March 5. Disturbance in Yola, Gongola State. Maitatsine sect, 568 die. 1985 April 26-28 Riot in Gombe, Bauchi State. Maitatsine sect. 105 die. *1986 March, Palm Sunday. Christians and Muslims clash during processions in Ilorin, Kwara State. *1986 May. At the University of Ibadan, Muslims burn the figure of the Risen Christ at the Catholic Chapel of the Resurrection *1987 March 5th and following days. In Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Christians and Muslims clash at the College of Education. 100 Churches and Mosques burned. *1987 March. Katsina, Funtua, Zaria, Gussau and Kaduna (Kaduna State).I am now a catholic!

1980 May. Religious violence in Zaria. Much property is destroyed. 1980 December 18-20 Riots in Kano. The Maitatsine sect, 4, 177 are killed. *1982 September 29 ? October 3. Disturbances in Kaduna, Kaduna State. 53 killed and many churches are burned. *1982 October 29-30 . Further trouble in Maiduguri, Borno State, Maitatsine sects. 118 die. *1984 February 27 - March 5. Disturbance in Yola, Gongola State. Maitatsine sect, 568 die. 1985 April 26-28 Riot in Gombe, Bauchi State. Maitatsine sect. 105 die. *1986 March, Palm Sunday. Christians and Muslims clash during processions in Ilorin, Kwara State. *1986 May. At the University of Ibadan, Muslims burn the figure of the Risen Christ at the Catholic Chapel of the Resurrection *1987 March 5th and following days. In Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Christians and Muslims clash at the College of Education. 100 Churches and Mosques burned. *1987 March. Katsina, Funtua, Zaria, Gussau and Kaduna (Kaduna State).I am now a catholic!

THE WRITE UP AND RESPONSES THERETO ARE REALLY DISSAPOINTING.THOSE WHO SAY JONATHAN HAS NO CLUE SHOULD SUGGEST CLUES TO HIM.THOSE WHO SAY HE IS NOT INTELLIGENT SHOULD TELL US HIS INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT.THOSE WHO EARLIER PROFESS THAT GOD GIVES LEADERSHIP NOW SAY THAT 'WE' MADE MISTAKE IN VOTING JONATHAN INSTEAD OF BUHARI MEANING THAT GOD HAS MADE MISTAKE.INSECURITY DID NOT START WITH GEJ AND WILL NOT STOP WITH HIM AS HE CAN ONLY TRY TO CONTAIN TERRORISM OF IDIOTIC SUICIDE JIHADISTS WHO, AFTER FAILING ON EARTH , FOOL THEMSELVES INTO WANTING TO GO TO HEAVEN AND ENJOY VIRGINS AND WINE.
ONE FAILS TO FIND A PROFOUND AND HOLISTIC PRESCRIPTION ON HOW TO SORT NIGERIA ON A SUSTAINABLE BASIS EXCEPT THE INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS OF EXPECTING MAGIC FROM JONATHAN.
WHY CAN OTHERWISE EDUCATED PEOPLE NOT REVISIT THE PRESCRIPTIONS OF THE 1994/5 ABACHA CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE AND PUT PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT TO CONVOKE A CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS NIGERIA FROM FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES?

THE EARLIER THE FULANIS GET IT INTO THEIR NUMBSKULLS THAT NIGERIA IS NOT THEIR PATRIMONY INSPITE OF THE EVIL DESIGNS OF THE BRITISH, THE BETTER IT WILL BE FOR THEM. HERE IS A GROUP OF OUTSIDERS, COUSINS OF THE ARABS, NOT INDIGENOUS TO SUB SAHARAN AFRICA, WHO WERE ALLOWED TO SETTLE IN NEGRO LAND. HAVING SETTLED, THEY BROUGHT A POLITICAL RELIGION IN WHICH THEY MUST SUPERINTEND OVER ADHERENTS AS OVERLORDS AND EVEN NON ADHERENTS AS RULERS WITHOUT WHICH THERE WILL BE NO PEACE. FROM SENEGAL TO NORTHERN CAMEROUN, THESE MINORITIES SPECIALISE IN DEVISING DEVIOUS SCHEMES TO COLONISE AND ENSLAVE THE UNSUSPECTING INDIGENOUS MAJORITY.BUT THAT WAS IN THE PAST.THE TERRORISM OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO AGAINST THE HAUSA CAN NOT WORK VIA BOKO HARAM AGAINST NIGERIA.PURSUIT OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL TERRORISM CAN ONLY RESURRECT THE GHOST OF GIDEON ORKAR TO PUT THEM WHERE THEY BELONG - IN THE FRINGE OF THE SAHARA DESERT.

IBRAHIM SAAD WE KNOW YOUR PREDILECTION. IF BUHARI SHOOTS HIMSELF INTO THE PRESIDENCY, HE WOULD BE A SMART PRESIDENT NOW BUT WAS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO PREVENT BABANGIDA FROM OVERTHROWING HIM.IT IS UNFORTUNATE NTHAT YOU IMPLY THAT ONCE JONATHAN LEAVES THE PRESIDENCY FOR YOUR KIND, BOKO HARAM TREEORISM WILL STOP.MUTALLAB THE 2010 CHRISTMAS BOMBER WOULD NOT HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BOMBING IN THE US IF JONATHAN WERE SMART.YOU ARE JUST A BOKO HARAM TERRORIST AND IF CARE IS NOT TAKEN, YOU PEOPLE WILL GET WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR IN FULL MEASURE BECAUSE NO GROUP CAN AFFORD THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE. NO WONDER GIDEON OKAR EXCISED YOUR PEOPLE OUT OF NIGERIA IN HIS FAILED 1990 COUP.WE ARE WATCHING.

Despite a brutal civil war and despite our many regional, ethnic and religious differences and bouts of violence we have still managed to hold things together and not been forced go our separate ways. We have managed and tolerated each other with a smile despite our very real tensions, challenges and differences. However when there are very real and tangible tensions between the north and the south, when there is an unprecedented level of resentment between Christians and Muslims, when there is open disdain and contempt for what is (rightly or wrongly) perceived as the weakness and incompetence of a southern Christian President by the majority of those in the core Muslim north, when a full scale religious war is being waged in Jos between Christians and Muslims and when bombs are being dropped all over the place by Islamist terrorists who wish to establish an Islamic fundamentalist state in the north then all bets are off and the centre cannot possibly hold for much longer.

What have this issue got to do with same sex issues? If you don't have anything to contribute why not quitly ignore. Do not mix issues. Men sleeping with men is not the cause of this problem and prohibiting it will not bring a solution.

Leo,

Many thanks for expressing your concerns like millions of other Nigerians. That President Jonathan cannot find a solution to thsi menace is a forgone conclusion. This is one problem holding the Nigeria nation at the jugular. We are now at a cross-road.

You expressed concern about the inability of Nigeria to wothstand a religious war. Your concern is an understatement as the nation is already at war. Nigeria is going through another cycle of civil war, albeit a very unconventional war. However, whether any nation has survived two civil wars is something only time can tell.

The situation at hand calls for a more pragmatic solution. A solution staring at us in the face but which we lacked the will to implement. I shall address this issue shortly in my next article.

Once again, many thanks for being there for the people. A luta continua!

THANKS OKONKWO FOR THE INGIGHT. BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR CONCLUSIONS. THE MILITARY IS A HIERACHICAL ORGANISATION AS SUCH IF HE HAD SMART AND INTELLIGENT SERVICE CHIEFS THE CONTROL OF THE MILITARY WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM. IF HOWEVER THE THREAT IS FROM THE OUTSIDE THESE SAME SERVICE CHIEFS WILL BE ABLE TO COUNTER IT. THE TRUTH IS YOU CANNOT HAVE A CABINET THAT IS SMARTER THAN THE PRESIDENT. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT WE MADE A MISTAKE IN THE SELECTION OF A PRESIDENT QED!!!

please people think. if in fact the northern elite are responsible for the bombings in nigeria today then please explain to me why GEJ will not arrest the so called northern elite and prosecute them accordingly??? i solely believe that GEJ is part of the conspiracy. uptil today no boko haram member has been sentenced in court. all of them are awaiting trial. can u believe these things? nigerian govt I DEY LAUGH WOO!!!!

It is now apparent that this terrorist group is determined to exacebate the worsening tensions between Christian South & Moslem North. Our security services & the armed forces need to work in conjuction. The security services have got to increase their capacity to infiltrate this group. We need to have security services people as MEMBERS OF BOKO HARAM. This is the only way to succesfully fight this assymetrical threat. The JTF needs ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE TO ACT ON.Nigeria also needs to cultivate a well trained counter-insurgency unit, that cannot only combat these nihilists on their own terms but also befriend the people of these neibourhoods who might provide valuable intelligence. Fighting Terrorism has always been about PRE-EMPTIVE intelligence.The problem is that because Nigeria does not even have the basics, it will take some time, but we have to START NOW.It is ironic that BH has taken the side of the looters & is now oppressing the suffering masses!

Some insane writers now want us to believe that, God in His wisdom told them that Jonathan, was not going to be able to rule us except vultures like Buhari, who had no respect for the rule of law during the two years that he ruled us, is forced down our throat. Buhari was so selective that he arranged with judges to have people like the late Fela, jailed for reasons best to known to him. Nigeria was not discovered by Lord Lugard for the Fulanis who strayed into Nigeria from the west african sub region, think that without them nothing will work in the country. Hence the need for certain innocent humans who have gone to church to thank God for sparing their lives up till that day, be killed to justify the need for us to have a change of guard in Aso rock. Why cant Buhari and members of his chain gang wait till 2015? Has Buhari not tried 3 times to rule us? Was it Jonathan who stopped him? These set of animals should be told to keep their dirty thoughts to themselves till 2015.

Some insane writers now want us to believe that, God in His wisdom told them that Jonathan, was not going to be able to rule us except vultures like Buhari, who had no respect for the rule of law during the two years that he ruled us, is forced down our throat. Buhari was so selective that he arranged with judges to have people like the late Fela, jailed for reasons best to known to him. Nigeria was not discovered by Lord Lugard for the Fulanis who strayed into Nigeria from the west african sub region, think that without them nothing will work in the country. Hence the need for certain innocent humans who have gone to church to thank God for sparing their lives up till that day, be killed to justify the need for us to have a change of guard in Aso rock. Why cant Buhari and members of his chain gang wait till 2015? Has Buhari not tried 3 times to rule us? Was it Jonathan who stopped him? These set of animals should be told to keep their dirty thoughts to themselves till 2015.

Thank you Mr. Igwe. I believe you can now undertstand why the Men Sleeping with Men (MSM)campaign in Nigeria cannot see the light of the day. There are too many problems in the country: boko haram, youth unemployment, enviromental problems in Niger Delta, massive corruption, infrastructure decay etc that need to be solved.

GEJ will on his own live with the burden of Boko Haram and not Nigerians as he said.
I have always known him to be a great failure thats why I never wasted my vote on rather, I voted for a man worthy of the leadership of Nigeria... Buhari.

If u study cosely GEJ's history and the way he makes it to the top of any where he finds himself, u will agree with me that all is not well.

Someone has to give way for him to head either through death or other means...this means that Nigeria has to be divided for another round of history to be made with his name written in whatever he stands to achieve.

May God help Nigeria and deliver Nigeria from the hands og GEJ..

Someone please pass a vote of no confidence on this worthless fello so that peace can reign in this country for once.

The points made by the writer are understandable,but they failed to highlight or address the perennial and salient backgrounds of the prevailing security situation in nigeria..The nigerian armed services were founded to cater for the agenda of the hausa/fulani political domination of the rest of nigeria..If one paid close attention to the deliberately skewed pattern of conscription,it would be discovered that there is nothing national about our military bodies.This problem is bigger than the poor guy from otuke,a man with no military antecedent ..The only person armed with requisite understanding of the intriguing maneuverings of the military is the ota ape..But as a yoruba snake,he failed to make fundamental changes that would have repositioned the military bodies for national services.I see these bombings as a rejection of south south presidency by the northern elite.Period!!.