In Boko Haram, the past is just in the present and in the future.
Gejo: President who was elected by his people to preserve lives, but now preside over their slaughter. Being thoroughly bewildered, he is like President Ulysses S. Grant "a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms."
THE POLICE HIGH COMMAND
The Inspector-General of Police Mr Hafiz Ringim
DIG Saleh Abubakar
DIG Ivy Okoronkwo
DIG A Azubuko J. Udah
DIG Audu Abubakar
DIG Sardauna Abubakar
AIG MH Zarewa
DIG Mohammed Yusufu
If you have been wondering why it has not been possible for the so-called Nigeria Police Force to put a stop to the menace of Boko Haram, then just look at the composition of the Police High Command. What is supposed to be a national force is populated and dominated by a section of the country-the North, of course!
By the time we publish the list of all the Commissioners of Police in Nigeria, you will see the stark reality of the police we‘d simply like to refer to as the Police in Nigeria, instead of the Nigeria Police Force. Over two decades ago, this writer had continued to cry out telling the Nigerian people and the Nigerian Authorities that there wasn’t such a thing to be called the Nigeria Police Force as the police then and now was not, and is currently not representative.
So in a country where ethnicness (ethnic loyalty) is played up above Nigerianness (national loyalty), do you wonder why rooting out Boko Haram has remained a mirage? Even if Boko Haram is gotten rid of, deadlier sects will yet emerge! So to understand Boko Haramism in Nigerian politics, you have to go back to the violent exploits of the jihadists of the past under Uthman Dan Fodio, especially with the founding of the Sokoto caliphate in 1809. In Boko Haram, the past is just in the present and in the future.
You‘d therefore be displaying crass naivety like Nigeria’s President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan whom we shall like to refer to as from now on as GEJO!
He’s meeting to commiserate with the protagonists of the Northern Oligarchic class and allowing himself to be deceived by their shedding goose tears without knowing these are the arch planners and financiers of Boko Haram. These bunch have become embarrassed because their militant outfit-Boko Haram have gone beyond the scripts prepared for them!
The question Gejo (Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) should be asking himself is, if all these emirs shedding tears now really are after peace and national unity, where were they and their ancestors during the pogrom that led to the Nigerian Civil War; where were they when young persons who were posted up North to serve their fatherland under the National Youth Service Scheme, (some of these innocent young Nigerians) were often brought home to their parents dead having been killed by a band of miscreants (Almajiris) they had kept as cannon fodders over the years, all in the name of religion? Where were these traditional rulers, retired Generals, serving Generals, retired civil servants and serving civil servants, Governors, politicians, lawmakers, etc when Akaluka was beheaded with his head put on a stick and paraded everywhere to the delight of the jihadists?
Just where were all these people who ought to act as fathers and custodians of all Nigerians in their States, domains, emirates, kingdoms, etc, but have failed the nation? Why did they keep silent for such a long time? This was exactly the attitude adopted by Saudi Arabia when Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts were going about bombing the world. The Saudi Authorities started joining the fight against terrorism and Bin Laden ONLY when he turned against them. The same attitude has been maintained by the Oligarchic North until very recently, but we would not take them seriously anyway, because bombings are just one of the many methods of pursuing their delusionary objectives of Islamising Nigeria, more so, when they seem to be losing out in the Nigeria power equation.
Again we ask: Where were all these people who are now shedding goose tears when Igbos are being slaughtered mindlessly? Where were all these late converts to patriotism when Christians are killed as wanton boys kill flies? Where were all these people when Jos, the erstwhile most peaceful city in Nigeria was permanently robbed of that peace and serenity by the jihadists?
How and why was Jos destroyed?
Well, the thinking of the Oligarchic masterminds is that Jos/Plateau State generally is in the North, so why must it be ruled by Christians? Then they surreptitiously worked on the ordinary Hausa-Fulanis to start making trouble...Local Government...settlers and indigenes and all that...it is the divine right of the Hausa-Fulanis to rule and not be ruled, both at the three-tier levels of Government in Nigeria.
Where were these people when Babangida smuggled Nigeria into joining the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation in 1986 contrary to the circular nature of the Nigerian State. The question is, did Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida act alone? No! A thousand times No! Therefore, again and again we warn: Gejo, think! Gejo, think!
Did General Gowon, a Christian purpose in his heart to send a representative-an observer to the OIC meeting during his time as Head of State of Nigeria? No! He acted under the instruction of the chief promoters of the Arewa/Gamji cause. Did the talakawas (the ordinary Northerners-ordinary Hausa-Fulanis ask for Sharia? No! A Thousand times No! These people shedding goose tears collectively decided to punish former President Olusegun Obasanjo for refusing to become their puppet and marionette as young and then fearful Obasanjo was as a military Head of State of Nigeria. Did these people now shedding goose tears not know about the overall implications of introducing Sharia in a section of circular Nigeria? They did! But they don’t just care about Nigeria. They ONLY care about the vested interest of the Oligarchic class, the interest of Islam and the Arab nations! They don’t even care about their errand persons-Almajiris, and lately Boko Haram.
Had they cared for the talakawas-ordinary Northerners, ordinary Hausa-Fulanis they would have teamed up with Aminu Kano to give them education, give them back their land which they had seized from them and made life better for them. Currently in Nigeria, the Fulani Bororos are the ONLY Nigerians without ( a) Local Government(s) of their own because of their peculiar lifestyle, the Bororos have no grazing land any more, hence the constant frictions between them and farmers all over Nigeria and West Africa, as a result of the fact that the environment in Nigeria is no longer conducive for grazing most of them have migrated to Cameroon, Gabon, etc. This writer spent over two decades contending for the well-being of the Bororos and the talakawas whose fadamas-traditional agriculture have been destroyed by the mechanised farmers through massive irrigation projects owned by members of the Oligarchic class-Generals, top ranking civil servants of Northern extraction of course, who through their spurious policy of greening the North dammed every major river. Such mega dams projects include Tiga and Challawa Gorge Dams. Some of these mega dams when burst swept communities downstream away. This writer’s campaign attracted the attention of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation and the international community and a deadlier mega dam project the Kafin Zaki being built then by Julius Berger was stopped. These are the areas the Oligarchic North; Buhari inclusive, should be drawing the attention of the Nigerian Government and international community to, instead of pursuing selfish agenda. Again this writer’s campaign in Northern Nigeria was largely instrumental to the formation of the Pastoral Resolve headed by General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), one of Nigeria’s former Head of State who hails from Daura Emirate in Northern Nigeria.
Whilst their children are receiving western education, attending the most prestigious universities in the West, they are making frantic efforts poising the minds of these untutored against Christians and Southerners generally. This is why the Federal Government under Gejo MUST be interested in what Islamic teachers are teaching these hapless young Nigerians, because it is the constitutional responsibility of any Government in power in Nigeria and the world over to decide on the type of education that is best for all Nigerian children and their citizens as it concerns other nations. Therefore, no emir, General, Governor, politician, civil servant, Imam, Alfa can say people should be allowed to be educated in line with their religion as persons in this rank had always told this writer each time he had taken up the education of the talakawas/Almajiris with them.
If traditional rulers, Generals, top civil servants, politicians, etc in Northern Nigeria really do care about the peace, unity and progress of Nigeria, the starting point should be to liaise with the Federal Government and free these children through an education programme I would like to call Almajiris Special Skills Educations Scheme (ASSETS) by giving them free and compulsory Western education and skills training.
Whilst they are fighting for their future and that of their children to maintain the status quo, they are telling the children of the talakawas that Western education and their values are sinful. To know about their hypocrisy, a recent example we‘d like to draw the attention of Nigerians to is that of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab who while in the United Kingdom, was not only in one of the best Universities in the UK, but living in a £2.5 million mansion at age 23, the same age in which the talakawas’ children go half naked in dishevelled apparels around emir places, towns and cities in Northern and Southern Nigeria asking for alms!
About Boko Haram, President Jonathan, all Nigerians home and in the Diaspora and the peoples of the world should know that they are not just asking for the introduction of Sharia, seeking economic redress and the release of their members as Boko Haramism is the pursuit of ideological, religious, cultural and political causes-the continuation of the Uthman Dan Fodio jihad and the pursuit of the global jihad vision of Islamising the world!
Lest, we forget they can’t even blame Obasanjo or Gejo for their economic woes because their people held power for upward of 40 years out of Nigeria’s 51 years as an independent nation. The good news in all of these is that in all of this the NORTH WILL BE THE ULTIMATE LOSERS! Another good news is that whether Almajiris, or Boko Haram or any other sect(s) that will soon emerge, will sooner or later like the Frankenstein monsters turn on all the members of the rotten Oligarchic locust whose ONLY contribution to that beautiful country called NIGERIA has been nothing, but VIOLENCE!
Having worked extensively over the years in Northern Nigeria, I can tell the world that the ordinary people of Northern Nigeria are very loving, caring and humble. The problem of the North, the problem of Nigeria is the band that constitutes the Oligarchic North-traditional rulers, Generals, serving or retired, top civil servants, politicians, etc, etc. Again, in the course of traversing the North, I discovered that even though these rotten elements held power for upward of 40 years in Nigeria, they failed to develop the North; save the good network of roads on which they will drive their thoroughly obscene limousines after retirement, when Federal jets and helicopters will no longer be at their disposal.
Whilst a region of my soul is in pain, I ‘d like to ask the Oligarchic North this one question on behalf of posterity: With the pervasive bombings, violence, killings, maiming and destruction, will any investor come to Northern Nigeria to invest? Will even this locust gang themselves sincerely invest in the North under the prevailing condition?
My Only message to them: They only have one country called Nigeria, and not Saudi Arabia or any country in the Arab World. And it is ONLY in Nigeria that they can be Generals, emirs, etc with some of them doubling as the supreme spiritual leaders of Muslims, and CERTAINLY not in Saudi Arabia or in any of the Arab nations!
It is my cry to Gejo on behalf of posterity that he MUST get Nigeria out of OIC and probe all alliances being formed currently by members of the Oligarchic North with the Arab nations as every of such alliances seeks to disregard the sanctity of Nigeria’s circularism and as such are sure the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Nigeria.
Finally, as Artemidorus in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare warns Caesar, we are again warning Gejo:
“Caesar/JONATHAN, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus loves thee not: thou has wronged Ligarius.
THERE IS BUT ONE MIND IN ALL OF THESE MEN, and it is BENT AGAINST Caesar/JONATHAN. If thou beest not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!”
Below is the Police Statement on Kano bombings: