When the northern leaders and Boko Haram apologists call for negotiations, I don't seem to understand what is being negotiated; The Shari'a or Islamization of Nigerians. Dialogue? Yes good, but certainly not trading our collective conscience. Their attempt to 'canonize' Boko Haram is definitely questionable. I wonder if this is all due to genuineness for peace or covert agenda?
After all these unprovoked senseless killings of innocent Nigerians? Someone is thinking of official recognition and financial reward to these evil killers under the guise of Amnesty. The simple question is "What will FG tell the families of the innocent victims who have hitherto been neglected?" They are victims of circumstances???
In a multiplural state like Nigeria, this approach wouldn't work, every ethnic group is viciously watching the steps of the FG. A grant of amnesty akin to that of Niger Delta will only give credence to the formation of another terrorist group, and another, on and on, until we finally arrived at a failed state. That was why I was against the first arrangement called Amnesty for the Niger Delta. Are these guys not back in kidnapping, vandalism, bunkering? The root causes of the insurgences are still very much there. Albeit this, there is no much basis for comparison between BH and Niger Delta militants sake they are both militant outlawed groups. The Niger Delta guys were fighting for resources control, pollution control, employment opportunities by kidnapping oil-workers for ransom (strictly extortion), became violent when FG sent troops down there; the BH boys are fundamentalist, fighting for the adoption of Shari'a law, self-determination among other things, by violently killing and bombing people.
Whatever agreement reached with Boko alone remains a temporary placebo. At this juncture, the only way out is Sovereign National Conference, where each ethnic constituent in Nigeria will be given equal opportunity to table its stake in the union called Nigeria. The Boko boys too will send their representatives for the discourse. Let's discuss Nigeria for real once.
❦ I SURVIVED NIGERIA! When you give somebody responsibility beyond his capability, you render him incapacitated. ❦
--Why don't you offer solutions rather than apportion blames on our President? Mr. President told all Nigerians and the rest of the world that he was ready to dialogue with the leaders of Boko Haram but none of them have shown up. The next we hear from some Northern leaders and their intellectuals is amnesty for Boko Haram. Where in the world is such a thing done? Do you pay armed robbers for killing and dispossessing their victims? Do you grant terrorists amnesty for killing innocent people? Do you want to encourage and justify killing innocent people by granting amnesty to disgruntled politicians who become terrorists?We need to be more serious about our collective interest in this country. Is violence the right way to make government to do something for a particular group of people who feels aggrieved? The principle of the end justifies the means is morally unwarranted. We must engage in a meaningful dialogue which is what democracy teaches not violence.The apologists of Boko Haram must have a more robust moral thinking with a sense of deep reflection of the unity of this country in consonant with the vision and mission of the founding fathers of this nation, if not, we may be moving toward the morgue of disunity.Segun Ogungbemi.
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