{"id":23069,"date":"2014-02-20T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=23069"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:06:37","slug":"is-the-fg-really-ignoring-boko-haram-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/is-the-fg-really-ignoring-boko-haram-insurgency\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the FG Really Ignoring Boko Haram Insurgency?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By Hamisu Abubakar \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Is there something wrong with elders these days that they\u00a0think with their anus?\u00a0 Everywhere we turn these days in Nigeria, our elders are spewing forth what is less than elderly.\u00a0 If it is not from Niger Delta region where an elder has run riot with his tongue, then it is from the self-styled Northern Elders Forum (NEF), against a man (retired Chief of Army Staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika) who had sworn to defend the nation\u2019s territorial integrity and had diligently done so.<\/p>\n

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Elders from the gang of the NEF threatened Ihejirika with possible charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court (ICC); and when the elders from Ihejirika\u2019s part of the country (prominent Igbo men), would speak, it was also to pour bags of pepper on the festering injury.<\/p>\n

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When the NEF spoke, it was obvious they were not salutary and were merely playing politics to whip up primordial sentiments. \u00a0I have never respected such men even though they claim to be my elders. \u00a0Now that the army boys\u00a0have slowed down, for whatever reason, not excluding, perhaps, the dampening of their morals by the careless talk by the elders, let us see if the NEF, and its verbally diarrheic spokespersons like Ango Abdulahi, will remedy the situation.<\/p>\n

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Even in the face of it all, has anyone bothered to ask why the All Progressives Congress (APC) states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe are so unruly? \u00a0Is this a foretaste of things to come in other states or in the country if they take power? \u00a0In the South West where there has been relative peace, the actions of Rauf Aregbesola is heightening temperature. \u00a0Leader Bola Tinubu went there but was unable to come up with anything meaningful to stop divisions along religious lines. What does this portend for those who are sympathetic to the party? \u00a0Is this the kind of change they have been talking so loudly about?<\/p>\n

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In the specific case of the North East zone, one of its chief executives of military background is known to have boasted that he would distribute Kola nuts to his Fulani ethnic stock to back APC. \u00a0We hope it did not include making the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) look bad at all cost, even by sabotage. \u00a0For many who do not know, the people of his Fulani ethnic stock can be found in neighboring countries that are now\u00a0being fingered for complicity in the Boko Haram insrugency. President Goodluck Jonathan will do well to call for a thorough security check on this man and the former governor of one of the states in that geo-political zone, if he is to be taken serious as the commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n

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That former Governor, who is said to have sworn to match Tinubu Naira for Naira, dollar for dollar over who becomes the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, recently visited his state after being absent for a long time, during which time the state enjoyed relative peace. \u00a0In quick succession, a bomb went off, and the intensity of attacks and deaths spiraled out of control. \u00a0Now the elders of his state are claiming that the Federal Government is ignoring Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

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In a story in the Daily Trust, the elders\u00a0in Maiduguri said\u00a0the Federal Government must step up efforts to fight the insurgency. The\u00a0spokesman for the Borno Elders Forum,\u00a0Dr. Bulama Mali Gubio, told Daily Trust in Maiduguri that while \u201cwanton killing of Borno people\u201d has been going on by insurgents, there has been little attention from the Federal Government.\u00a0 Gubio, the Daily Trust continued, also pilloried Jonathan for failing to speak out in the past weeks when insurgency attacks heightened, causing the death of nearly 200 people within a week.<\/p>\n

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Gubio was quoted to have said: \u201cIn my personal opinion, it is certain that the Federal Government has failed to identify the actual problem bedeviling us or is deliberately looking the other way while our people are being massacred with impunity.\u00a0 During the Civil War, the Nigerian soldiers, including thousands from the northern part of the country, were mobilised to the rain and mangrove forest in eastern Nigeria where they spent over 30 months confronting the rebels and they succeeded in keeping Nigeria one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is shameful that with all the resources, expertise and wherewithal of the Nigerian Army, they could not comb the Sambisa Forest inch by inch to fish out the terrorists. From what we are seeing, any small country can override Nigeria and go away with it.\u00a0 Before it is too late, the Federal Government must be proactive by equipping the military and also motivate the vulnerable soldiers who are left in the bushes with only AK47 rifle and few bullets while on the other hand the terrorists, who are well trained and motivated, have anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and countless explosives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn other parts of the world, life is sacred and the killing of two people will attract a national broadcast by the President and a concrete decision will be taken, including punishing some people but the case here is different.\u00a0 As far as we are concerned, if the president refused to do what is right to confront this serious threat, he is simply telling those of us from the North-East that we are on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So Gubio wants the soldiers to step up action so that data on them can be collated and sent to the ICC, or did he not hear what the NEF said? Or, is it\u00a0not our own northern elders,\u00a0who in a bid to counter those elders who were irascible with their tongues in the Niger Delta, that\u00a0 are spoiling efforts to stop this odious and un-Islamic carnage in the name of a Islam?<\/p>\n

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Gubio said that in other parts of the world, the president would have made a broadcast. \u00a0Which part of the world has this man been living\u00a0that he did not know that many broadcasts have been made, including the one in which the president announced the imposition of a state of emergency?\u00a0 Please let him say something fresh.\u00a0 Sorry to ask, Dr Gubio, are you a medical doctor or what kind of doctor or spokesman are you that talk about government giving scanty attention to the Borno menace? \u00a0That was an ignorant and unfair cut on your part, and you should be given heaps of newspapers to read before making further comments on this particular matter.<\/p>\n

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He (Gubio) must be told that what we are witnessing is a function of the ignorance of many on the ways of Allah (God), and many shades of characters, including the barely literate former governor; and, sadly, other forces are exploiting the ignorance to full advantage to score all manner of points; men in\u00a0who the fear of God does not reside and are hell-bent on scoring points with human blood. \u00a0\u00a0They are known, even to Dr. Gubio; and, playing ostrich and blaming Abuja alone cannot solve the problem.<\/p>\n

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*Abubakar sent this piece via Hamisuabubakar4real@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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