Boko haram

A few reasons why Boko
Haram gained the upper hand
over Nigeria and some facts
about Boko Haram - By: Jasper
Azuatalam and Okpebo .E. Chima - May 2, 2014.
1. The government
misunderstood Boko Harram
to be a Northern conspiracy
against a South-South
president. They forget that the
first uprising was in 2009
when Yar'Adua was still
president. It may be too late for
us to wait to find out after a
South-south president, when
Boko Haram would not stop
their attacks.
2. Boko Haram was
underestimated by Nigeria and
her government; many facts
pointed to that and one of
which is the attempted
negotiation with the sect.
3. Our security men on the field
are not well motivated to fight
the sect and they do not trust
the government to be void of
complacency.
4. Corruption and insincerity
on the part of the government
in the fight against Boko
Haram.
Facts that we must accept to
begin an effective war against
Boko Haram:
a. Boko Harram is a terror
organization and one of the
tactics of every terror
organization is deceit. They
trick their targets with false
claims so they do not
understand their true nature
and origin, so the fight against
them can either be impossible
or difficult.
b. Terrorist organizations do
not dialogue, though they may
pretend to in an attempt to
deceive their target.
c. Terrorists have only one goal
and that is to cause terror.
Their satisfaction is in killing,
maiming, and causing pain to
their target.
d. Terrorists have no religious
or tribal loyalties. When they
pretend to do, they only aim to
deceive their target and gain
an upper hand.
e. One of the weapons of
terrorism is to cause disunity
among their target and
weaken their resistance.
f. The same way we have
international NGOs and
organizations who are
investing money to make the
world a better place is the
same way we have
international terrorists that are
investing their money to make
the world a bitter place and
terrorize humans.
g. International terrorists are
investing in Boko Harram and
causing terror in Nigeria.
h. Boko Harram has declared
war against Nigeria and the
only way to stop them is to
unite and fight back
we must diagnose our
sickness and identify it before
we get a cure. It is dangerous
to have Typhoid fever and be
treating malaria.
To an ordinary Southerner,
Boko Haram is the creation of
northern elites to make the
Jonathan's administration
ungovernable. To an ordinary
Northerner, Boko Haram is the
creation of the Jonathan-led
government in order to
decimate the population of
northerners and to destroy
their economy. But to Boko
Haram there is no distinction
between northerner and
southerner or Muslim and
Christians. Their goal is to
cause terror and their target
knows no such bounds.
Those who are asking the
government for money to talk
to Boko Haram over dialogue
are just trying to take
advantage of our pains to
exploit the government and
the people. There is nothing to
talk about. Boko Haram is a
terrorist group. The only thing
we can do is to stop them