Many
Nigerians were taken aback on Thursday when an Australian negotiator who had
worked with two past Nigerian heads of states and was recently assisting the
present Nigerian government to negotiate the release of the 200 Chibok girls,
mentioned that the Nigerian politicians were behind the sponsorship of the Boko
Haram and even dared on a live television news program to announce that the
former Borno State governor, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff and the former Nigerian chief
of army staff Lt-General Ihejirika were some of those many sponsors of the
Boko Haram.
We are
very grateful to Stephen Davis for confirming the suspicion of a lot of us, it
is not normal that in a country like Nigeria with an army battalion that is
among the most respected in the world can be so cheekily ridiculed as we have
been seeing since the aggravation of hostilities by the Boko Haram on our dear
nation: our men of the armed forces running and abandoning the weapons and barracks
at the arrival of the Boko Haram fighters, the constant lack of coordination
amongst our armed forces, the continuous failure to heavily clamp down on the
insurgent group, the constant complaints by our junior military officers that
the their superior officers often order them not to attack when they have the
Boko Haram men almost rounded up, so that they helplessly watch the Boko Haram
regroup themselves, outnumber and overpower our military men eventually.
There
is nothing new in what Stephen Davis is telling us, even our own president had
said on several occasions that his government has been infiltrated by the Boko
Haram group which makes the Boko Haram always a step ahead of the government in
intelligence gathering, logistics and even many of its successful and uncontained
attacks. But what is unbelievable today after more than five years of unceasing
murder and manslaughter of innocent Nigerians in the hands of these
unrepentant killers is that not one single person has been indicted as the
political face of the group or its sponsors.
Senator
Ali Ndume was arrested on the tip off of a notorious Boko Haram member, Kabiru
Sokoto who was for many months shielded by some government agents while he was
wanted by the police for his involvement in many Boko Haram attacks, the
senator was later released by our security personnel and has since resumed his
seat in the senate, free of all charges.
I am
not saying that Senator Ali Ndume may not be innocent, but what we can never
rule out is the involvement of notable politicians, ex and serving military
officers in all the mess going on right now in Nigeria. It is not enough to say
that the Boko Haram sect is an Islamic fundamentalist group that is aiming to
carry out the Islamic agenda like some other Islamic fundamentalist groups
around the world, yes probably, but what is certain is that they are enjoying
the collaboration of influential persons in the country for most of their
activities, including their financiation and that is the real area where we are
not seeing any great work from our government. Sponsors are not disclosed,
arrested and indicted.
For
some queer reasons, someone appears to be treating this very contemptuous and
condemnable issue with white gloves and using inexplicable and unnecessary sentiments in its management.
Now that Mr. Stephen Davis has mentioned two persons he claimed his Boko Haram
contacts told him are involved in the activities of the Boko Haram, as sponsors
and target fixers, one would expect the State security operatives in Nigeria to
immediately channel their line of investigation towards this allegation and
begin to arrest and question people. Frankly, I think that the Nigerian people
and its government does not yet truly know the real magnitude of the dangers
that is brewing on our soil, until some more heartless terrorist groups finally
team up with the Boko Haram and turn our blessed nation into another Afghanistan
or Irak.
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