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Subject: kadib2000 -Is Boko Haram a Bargaining Chip in the North's Desire For I
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Full Story: Is Boko Haram a Bargaining Chip in the North's Desire For I
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Most Nigerians failed to read between the lines when Buba Galadima, National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change and right hand man of the party's presidential candidate in last year's presidential elections, Muhammadu Buhari, told the BBC that Boko Haram was more popular in certain parts of the North than the government gave it credit for. In that Late December 2011 interview Buba Galadima had said "The people are sympathetic to certain principles and ideas," he told the BBC. "If people feel they are being denied anything or an injustice is being meted out to them then there is a likelihood that they will take the law into their own hands and help themselves."
Mr Galadima, who is from near Damaturu, where Boko Haram originally sprang from, raised the case of the former militants from the oilrich Niger Delta who were given generous financial packages from the government to keep them out of trouble.
"Why didn't the president crush the Niger Deltans? That's a questions a lot of people in this part of the country are asking," he said.
"Instead they are being rewarded for the economic destruction they brought Nigeria. Why can't the same be true for Boko Haram?"
In the last couple of weeks prominent individuals and groups from the North have initiated a coordinated campaign to agitate for an increased share of oil revenue from the Niger Delta. This strategy has been too coordinated to be a coincidence and the first salvo was fired by the governor of the CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who in an interview with the Financial Times of London on the fringes of the World Economic Forum that the 13 derivation being paid to South South states is one of the major causative reasons for the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency. (click link to read more)...>please use the Quick Reply button for all replies: [Quick Reply]
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From: new post <tundeyg@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Subject: kadib2000 -Is Boko Haram a Bargaining Chip in the North's Desire For I
To: ngpolitics@googlegroups.com
Full Story: Is Boko Haram a Bargaining Chip in the North's Desire For I
Posted by: kadib2000
Most Nigerians failed to read between the lines when Buba Galadima, National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change and right hand man of the party's presidential candidate in last year's presidential elections, Muhammadu Buhari, told the BBC that Boko Haram was more popular in certain parts of the North than the government gave it credit for. In that Late December 2011 interview Buba Galadima had said "The people are sympathetic to certain principles and ideas," he told the BBC. "If people feel they are being denied anything or an injustice is being meted out to them then there is a likelihood that they will take the law into their own hands and help themselves."
Mr Galadima, who is from near Damaturu, where Boko Haram originally sprang from, raised the case of the former militants from the oilrich Niger Delta who were given generous financial packages from the government to keep them out of trouble.
"Why didn't the president crush the Niger Deltans? That's a questions a lot of people in this part of the country are asking," he said.
"Instead they are being rewarded for the economic destruction they brought Nigeria. Why can't the same be true for Boko Haram?"
In the last couple of weeks prominent individuals and groups from the North have initiated a coordinated campaign to agitate for an increased share of oil revenue from the Niger Delta. This strategy has been too coordinated to be a coincidence and the first salvo was fired by the governor of the CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who in an interview with the Financial Times of London on the fringes of the World Economic Forum that the 13 derivation being paid to South South states is one of the major causative reasons for the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency. (click link to read more)...>please use the Quick Reply button for all replies: [Quick Reply]
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