USA Africa Dialogue Series - Jonathan's Proscription of Boko Haram

Dear Forumites,
Please permit me to offload my recent worries triggered by the news of the proscription of Boko Haram as a terrorist group. This followed the state of emergency in three northern states.

My worry is this: Why did Jonathan wait till now to get to this critical point after countless innocents have died gruesomely?

First hypothesis (the most popular): He's afraid to step on political toes. Or, even clueless about the whole security conundrum (if it really is that in the first place).

Second hypothesis: The security predicament is really beyond his utmost and sincere efforts. Terrorism has, since 9/11, assumed a gargantuan global dimension beyond the capacity of a single state.

Third hypothesis: Everything is really part of Machiavellian statecraft from the beginning (or triggered at some point by some ingenious calculation within the dynamics of realpolitik). I mean, 2015 is fast approaching and his candidature is already a point of debate. What better way to capture the besieged imagination of a grateful nation than the frantic motion of security alertness so suddenly since 2009?

Is the third hypothesis too far-fetched? Then, why wait till now for proscription? I'm just exercising my fundamental human right to be curious.


Adeshina Afolayan
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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