Nigerians have come to the fate-resigning conclusion that
the ailing and tired Nigeria state and its fast evaporating criminal unity will
hit the rock unless this senseless bill dies. Besides, Nigerians are only
waiting for Nigeria to decouple, either peacefully or by force of arm. After
all, Nigeria is at war with itself.
“To forgive the terrorists is up to God but to send them to
see God is my duty.” – Vladimir Putin
December 1, 2012 the leadership of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah
Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also called Boko Haram named the former Head of State and
presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, General Muhammadu
Buhari (retd), among six prominent Northerners to mediate between the group and
the Nigerian Government.
Spokesperson for the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who
doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau,
intoned at the time that other people who could mediate with the government if
its conditions were met, include Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, former Yobe State
governor, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Ambassador Gaji Galtimari and Hajia Aisha Wakil
and her husband, Alkali Wakil.
Abdulazeez insisted that for the group to ceasefire
completely, the government must not only apprehend, but prosecute Senator Modu
Sheriff according to the laws of the land as well as compensate members of the
group and rebuild their places of worship destroyed during 2009 uprising, which
led to the alleged murder of their leader, Mohammed Yusuf. The terrorist group
further asserted that for the group to observe ceasefire, the Federal
Government must heed its demand by arresting and prosecuting the former
Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.
General Buhari's pretentious reaction at the time was
"I was yet to be formally contacted on the development". Alhaji Buba
Galadima, now estranged former associate of Buhari echoed Gen. Buhari's
statement thus: “His first reaction is that he has not heard about this news
and nobody has contacted him". The reaction was a face-saving tactics to
distance himself from the militia terrorist group, even though he earlier
called upon President Goodluck Jonathan to grant them amnesty swiftly; a group
he relentlessly and openly sympathised with for slaughtering fellow innocent
Nigerians.
What has changed? In case you forget, Senator Ali Modu
Sheriff has since joined General Buhari's ruling political party, the All
Progressives Congress. It's the party's standard rule to forgive politicians
their evil deeds, however heinous, once they become members of the party. Wait
a moment, are you surprised General Buhari and his APC gang are extending
amnesty to the terrorist organisation? What are you expecting when we elected
terrorists embracing president and the alleged sponsors and sympathizers of
Boko Haram into power?
Not too long ago, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode alleged that General
Buhari created Boko Haram to burnish his political ambition, and as such can't
proffer realistic solutions to tame the terrorists menace. That is a weighty
allegation, you said! Before then, there have been insinuations from many
quarters that General Buhari is a Boko Haram sympathiser alongside his cultic
followers who visited terror on Nigerians each time he loss election before he
finally won his first presidential election after making several attempts in
2015. But are there similarities between the Congress for Progressive Change,
General Buhari's former political party that fused into the APC and the
Hezbollah terrorist group that transformed into a political party in the
troubled Yemen in the Middle East? The answer is yours to provide.
The government's proposed National Agency for the Education,
Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of 'Repentant Insurgents' in
a country that proposes to get its funding from the Universal Basic Education
Commission and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund makes mockery of President
Buhari's anti-terrorism campaign; at the same time validates allegation that
the president is out of touch with reality and has been emboldening the
jihadist militias to carry on their philistinic agenda to exterminate the
'infidels' and get rewarded.
As we speak the controversial bill, which is officially
known as ‘A Bill for the Establishment of the National Agency for the
Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of Repentant
Insurgents in Nigeria and for Other Connected Purposes’, has passed the first
reading in the Senate a few days ago. The bill posits other sources of funding
the agency apart from UBEC/TETFund to include donations, grants, annual
subventions from the government and counterpart funding from the six North-East
states of Borno, Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba and Gombe.
A few days after the bill presentation, which was sponsored
by Senator representing Yobe East, Ibrahim Geidam, passed the first reading,
Geidam, in an interview with journalists, defended the bill. "Many Boko
Haram terrorists were willing to lay down their arms but were afraid of the
consequences of their action". Nigerians and the global community expect
Senator Geidam and the parliament to be more concerned about the release of
school girls abducted from Chibok in 2014 by the insurgents. By the way, do you
grant amnesty to terrorists groups before they drop their arms.
To be candid, several questions bothering on insecurity have
been running riots in the minds of many political observers. Could it be that
the Senate is bereft of the most basic legislative intuition to set up similar
agency concurrently for the rehabilitation of thousands of internally displaced
persons in several camps in Northern Nigeria? By this singular act the
government has not only subjected the nation to the whims and caprices of the
terrorists by nurturing a society with a sense of victimhood, but woefully
abdicated its received monopoly of violence to protect those whose sovereignty
have been appropriated by state.
The other question is how honestly and earnestly is General
Buhari's administration committed to tackling security challenges plaguing the
country? Is there any security architecture plans that his government is
following to bring an end to the insurgency menace? Every reasonable Nigerian
who have been following General Buhari's records knows that he had a different
worldview of what the country would be like as a Fulani fundamentalist and
irredentist bigot. All he has been advocating since he left power as a military
Head of State is Fulanisation of country.
From the very beginning of the present Fourth Republic all
indication has always point to the fact that General Buhari places his Fulani
ethnic conclave, regardless of their atrocious madness, invasion of peoples'
farm settlements, over and above Nigeria unity. In the early days of this
Fourth Republic, Buhari stood in for Fulani terrorists under the Arewa
Consultative Forum, who killed and raped farmers and destroyed their crops in
Oyo State with a warning to then Governor Lam Adesina to accommodate the
butchers in his state in his own interests! Ever since, Buhari conscripted
Alhaji Nasir el-Rufai, the Kaduna State governor, to be part of the
Fulanisation project where criminals and terrorists are celebrated and rewarded
for furnishing unremitting terror on innocent citizens.
One expects that the killings in Kaduna State and elsewhere
across the country to have abated after Governor El-Rufai told us that he went
to the people who came to sack a town to stop killing them and that 'we now
have a Fulani man in place" after paying them compensation in millions.
Only this week, nearly 100 persons were slaughtered in Kaduna State. At the
funeral service of the massacred villagers, the governor merely apologised for
his inability to protect Kaduna citizens, instead of resigning his position in
accordance with the Nigerian constitution. The governor's earlier
romanticisation with monstrosities and patronizing position in support of
terrorism is not particularly different from General Buhari's statement late
last year that Nigerians should find a way to cooperate with "your fellow
man", Fulani terrorists. This is also in tandem with General Buhari's
media Adviser's dubious request, Mr Femi Adesina that Nigerians should either
release their ancestral lands for cattle colony or have their blood spilled!
A few disturbing realities have been steering us gangly in
the face since the abominable piece of legislation materialized in the
"hollow" chambers of the national assembly. Are you surprised that
General Buhari is sold to granting a so-called amnesty to the terrorists who he
earlier told the whole world are foreigners from Libya and other African
countries? What purpose do you think the visa-on-arrival policy of his government
is seeking to achieve, even with the allegation that foreigners are responsible
for insecurity in the country?
Nigerians should not be deceived that the whole purpose of
visa-on-arrival is solely meant for Fulani in and around African to swamp over
Nigeria. The whole gamble of visa-on-arrival policy has been designated as the
sole reason American Government banned Nigerians from coming into the US since
General Buhari thrown open northern boarders or has refused to close over 1,500
illegal boarders in the north through which terrorists found themselves into
the Nigeria where they obtain Visas to travel to Middle East terrorism-prone
countries to be trained.
Come to think of it, how many African migrants are ready to
come to a troubled and vanquished country such as Nigeria with collapsed
security architecture, where Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani terrorists and bandits
kill people in their hundreds on a daily basis? How can Boko Haram terrorists
that is killing Nigerians by the seconds, which never asked for negotiation or
amnesty and has bluntly refused to lay down their arms be beneficiaries of
state funded education overseas when those they have displaced, maimed, raped
and killed can't access justice or those abandoned in numerous IDPs camps in
northern Nigeria resettled?
Nigerians have come to the fate-resigning conclusion that
the ailing and tired Nigeria state and its fast evaporating criminal unity will
hit the rock unless this senseless bill dies. Besides, Nigerians are only
waiting for Nigeria to decouple, either peacefully or by force of arm. After
all, Nigeria is at war with itself.
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