Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - [what is boko haram?]Update: 11 killed 66 injured as suicide bombers hit Kano GSM market

Your premise about Northern Governors seems to be faulty, but what we don't notice because our eye is not attuned to it ought not to be turned into a categorical assertion when it suits the particular case that we want to make.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/156073-boko-haram-northern-governors-ask-nigerians-despair.html

https://www.thecable.ng/northern-governors-boko-haram-wont-survive-another-three-months

http://newsghana.com.gh/northern-governors-slams-boko-haram/

http://peoplesdaily-online.com/weekend/index.php/news/national-news/2626-boko-haram-northern-governors-seek-more-action

http://www.informationng.com/2015/10/northern-governors-set-up-committee-to-unmask-boko-haram-sponsors.html

For the rest, when someone takes to the airwaves urging murder on ethnic grounds, I dare say it makes more sense not to sit down and wait until matters reach Boko Haram proportions before acting.  It is true that Nigerians - indeed, humanity - hardly learns from history, but maybe this is one case where we just might.

Ayo

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On 19 Nov 2015, at 5:25 PM, Anunoby, Ogugua <AnunobyO@lincolnu.edu> wrote:

"The agitators for Biafra are understood. But no one seems to understand Boko Haram. While you have fuel scarcity, Boko Haram has fuel to drive around. They have cell phones serviced by MTN. Something is puzzling about Boko Haram. The northern governors have not yet issued a communique on Boko Haram. But southern governors are quick to hold emergency meetings on agitations for Biafra."

 

ea

 

You identify some contradictions in Nigeria's political reality. 

 

There are many more including:

 

The more important things are not important.

The right questions are neither asked nor answered even after they are asked.

Truth is mostly occasional and situational.

Facts do not really matter.

If you are one of us you are okay.

Why sail through when you can muddle through?

 

Does the federal government perceive Radio Biafra- a pirate station to be a greater threat to it than Boko Haram? Apparently so. Why else is Radio Biafra's Kanu in police custody and Boko Haram's Shekau and others are still free in North Eastern Nigeria? Kanu lives in the United kingdom. Shekau lives in Nigeria   

Does it matter that The Huffington Post has reported that "Boko Haram actually kills more people in  terror attacks than ISIS" and Kanu's Radio Biafra has not killed anyone? Not really it seems.

 

Please read.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boko-haram-isis_564cd890e4b00b7997f8c15d

 

oa

 

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Date: 19 November 2015 at 04:55
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [africanworldforum] Re: Update: 11 killed 66 injured as suicide bombers hit Kano GSM market

 

Does anyone know what Boko Haram wants? I forgot. I thought they wanted a northerner elected president. That was done. What else? Sharia? People fight for a purpose. Can someone educate me what Boko Haram achieve after the suicide bombings? I am lost. 

 

The agitators for Biafra are understood. But no one seems to understand Boko Haram. While you have fuel scarcity, Boko Haram has fuel to drive around. They have cell phones serviced by MTN. Something is puzzling about Boko Haram. The northern governors have not yet issued a communique on Boko Haram. But southern governors are quick to hold emergency meetings on agitations for Biafra. 

Ezeana Achusim

Odi-Isaa

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On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 7:52 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 

 

Joe Attueyi and John Ebohon:

 

This suicide-induced carnage on Nigerian soil is appalling.....I still don't understand what mentality makes so many people so willing to blow themselves up....

 

A few points here though:

 

1.  Mercenaries cannot be used to defeat the kind of religious insurgency that the world is now facing.  It will just be a waste of money.

 

2.  Suicidal insurgency cannot be completely wiped out....but it can be severely curtailed.  We will have to live with it for a long time, and be happy when they are few and far between in occurrence.

 

3.  The first lines of defence are HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (Humint) and TECHNOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE (TechInt).  The former is aided by capturing as many insurgents alive as possible (and subjecting them to serious interrogation) and the latter can be improved through purchase of aerial-survey SATELITTE information from local and foreign sources - to the greatest resolution possible, no matter how much it costs, particularly soon after the insurgents have struck massively somewhere, because they cannot but have left a "paper-trail."

 

4.  We must cut off fuel, arms, transportation, food and recruits supply routes to the insurgents.  After all, the first four items do not just drop off from the sky, and a lot of them are needed for logistics for such large number of insurgents.  I have never understood how transportation was arranged to transport 200+ girls from Chibok to anywhere else, without notice....how many Hiluxes, or lorries, or buses were used?  They did not raise noise or dust along the way?.....Incredible...   

 

5.  It is in LIMITING the number of new recruits that the socio-economic factors that feed the insurgency in the first instance must be addressed.

 

6.  An OFFENSIVE posture must be adopted by the military - not just sit back and be hit by the insurgents, but go further and farther against them wherever they are suspected to be, even if they hide in caves or tunnels or thick forests.  It should be a day and night search-and-destroy posture. [The PMB administration is doing well in this arena.]

 

7.  For our Muslims brothers and sisters, their religious leaders must be more forthcoming in pronouncing FATWAS against suicide for whatever reason,  that it is UN-ISLAMIC, and that any Muslim that does it goes straight to Hell, where there are no genders.  We should plead that ALL ambiguity about going to a pleasurable sex-satisfying heaven upon committing suicide must be removed.  This move, among others (like limited banning of the Hijab in the most vulnerable locations) should be adopted quickly.

 

8.  Finally,  provide morale-boosting information about the War effort - because this is war -  to the public, especially verifiable pictures...no lies or useless propaganda, please.

 

And there you have it.

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

 

 

 

 

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:08 AM, John Ebohon <ebohon@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:

My brother Joe,

 

I disagree, we should be able to defeat this criminal outfit. The government has concentrated on military measures alone. The Federal Government should put a ban on all publicity on the activities of these hoodlums - print, television, radio – they must be denied the oxygen of publicity. As General Ishola Williams have long suggested, Nigeria should invest heavily in intelligence capable of operating within and in neighbouring countries to infiltrate the group and begin dismantling them from within. A cracked team of female soldiers is necessary to flush out these nonentities who believe they may not make heaven, if killed by women. If mercenaries are to be used, then there is a real case for dismantling and rebuilding the Nigerian Army. The Army should have pride in themselves to sit down and prosecute this war to its logical conclusion.

OJ

 

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Once again I suggest we forget politics, ignore our ego and hire mercenaries to fight these terrorists. Kano had become safe for quite some time and now this. 

 

Bro Abba, my planned trip to Kano postponed indefinitely 

 

Joe

 

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Update: 11 killed 66 injured as suicide bombers hit Kano GSM market

			Update: 11 killed 66 injured as suicide bombers hit Kano... At least five people have died in two explosions at a market in northern Nigeria's main city, Kano, police say.
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