Finally, we hear that the Nigerian Military is taking action against those soldiers who enlisted, but refused to fight. They should also remember to take action against the commanders who in the safety of they air conditioned offices send out ill equipped soldiers to war against a better equipped adversary like Boko Haram. I have said it before, and I will say it gain. The whole Nigerian Military should be overhauled. Too much corruption, and too much lounging about in their comfort zones. Those boys have forgotten how to war, and it will take a very drastic action from the president to shake them up.

Imagine soldiers aiming shots at their officer, and stoning his car. I thought soldiers were supposed to be disciplined. What kind of discipline is that? This shows how respect, honor and selfless service have been eroded in the Nigerian Military. When soldiers do these things, and their wives without fear join in the furrow, it is time to take a serious look at the whole organization.

President Jonathan should start talking to the Nigerians. The Nigerians should be told the truth. They should know that the Military is so corrupt they cannot even help themselves, much more help the country. They should know that “when the come comes to become” as one of our past very colorful politicians put it, they will have themselves to blame if they fail to take notice of all these happenings.

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The battle hasn’t started and the Military is losing a war plane. Until we know what happened to that plane, let us just begin praying for the souls of the two pilots aboard that war plane. After four days of this loss, we can assume that the plane was downed and that the two pilots on board are dead. Let us also hope that this loss will not deter the Military’s newly formed determination to oust Boko Haram.

I was watching the Nigerian Military personnel recently in a photo post where they were pretending to be in training. They were all dressed up in their army party dresses, carrying and aiming guns. I made a double turn when I saw that photo, and wondered if they knew they were being photographed. If they knew and allowed that photo to be posted for the world to see, then they are greater fools than I originally thought. These boys, I can call them that for I am a senior, do not yet realize that Nigeria is being attacked and they should be in war mood, fighting in the trenches against Boko Haram. Who wants to see them any other way other than in the front fighting Boko Haram?

Can someone tell these guys that Nigeria is under attack, that Boko Haram is at war with Nigeria, that they should stop their partying and go to war. Only a well co-ordinated war can root out Boko Haram. And only then can we know what happened to those girls.

(We will not relent.)

If the Nigerian government took Boko Haram seriously from the onset, the group would not have turned into the threat that they are today. The government simply looked at them as a bunch of ragamuffins causing disturbances, and the Military scuffed at them and treated them as a bunch of trouble makers to be snuffed out with one swipe. Even now that the group is proving more than a mere nuisance, the government and the top military officers still do not seem to get it. Boko Haram is at war with Nigeria, and Nigeria should wage war with Boko Haram. This is war!!!

Nothing short of treating the Boko Haram invasion as war against Nigeria will root them out. The government should treat this as war, the Military should engage Boko Haram, as they do at war times.

Although Boko Haram is calling their invasion of parts of Nigeria a religious cleansing, their claims of creating Caliphates and soon, Caliphs, changes the whole parameter. If one country seizes territories in another country, they are asking for an all out war. Nigeria should realize this now, and the Military should treat it as such. President Jonathan and the Military should stop treating Boko Haram with child’s gloves, and wage war on Boko Haram.

(We will not relent.)

The Nigerian Military wants the world to know that they are now ready to combat and annihilate Boko Haram. Their spokesman assures us that they have new arms and more are pouring in. Let us hope that Boko Haram’s insider informants do not lead Boko Haram to these new arms as they have consistently done in the past. Let us also hope that real army commanders, who are not afraid, who are trained to battle, lead the army this time with their improved arms. This is war soldiers!

With this improved arms, the Military should now engage in an all out war against Boko Haram. If they fail again, this time, and President Jonathan fails to do anything about it, we will label all of them, including the president Boko Haram members. Enough is enough!

There should be no more excuses from those soldiers who claim that Boko Haram is better armed than the Military. There should be no more news about soldiers running from Boko Haram’s attack. The Military should not try to come up with any more excuses to justify their inability to take out Boko Haram, because very soon, they will begin telling us about shortage of manpower; soldiers. No more excuses! It’s now or never.

(We will never relent.)

From the very onset of the Boko Haram’s insurgency, it was alway known that most of Boko Haram’s members were outsiders fighting in Nigeria. So the question of whether they found Tuaregs amongst their rank and file is not surprising. There are more foreigners than native Nigerians fighting with Boko Haram. This is because, in the warped thinking of their supporters, foreigners are more disposable than natives. These supporters may have very strong beliefs about eliminating Christians in their midst, but that strong belief does not extend to sending or allowing their own children to fight in any uprising. The down-trodden, the poor, the homeless, and the orphans have been used for most Islamic uprising in Nigeria, and these people abound in the North.

The down trodden see these outbreaks as their means of livelihood, and some see them as a way out of poverty. Unless their leaders are killed off, which is usually the case, these shadowy sponsors will have them to contend with at the end of all this. These people are used and disposed off at the end of every excursion. They are usually faceless, and voiceless, hence the disguise. That their leader this time is not only showing his face, but making his voice heard is a clearly telling us that he is a dead man walking. If he is not killed before the end of Boko Haram’s demise, he will be dead notwithstanding.

This can begin to explain their brutality, and lack of respect for life and property. They never lived and they never owned anything in their lives, so they are taking their revenge for the deprivations of their lives before Boko Haram. This is no justifications for their brutality.

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Some Nigerians can be such sycophants. Just imagine anyone mimicking the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls to promote President Jonathan’s re-election bid by printing and distributing #BringBackJonathan. What a farce! What a poor taste! Unless of course this is mockery. In that case all those responsible for this act of indiscretion should be brought to book. It is not enough for President Jonathan to order the posters taken down, he must also punish those who perpetrated it.

Some people in Nigeria don’t seem to take Boko Haram seriously. They probably believe that the whole thing will go away, that the Military will as usual dispatch Boko Haram as they have done in the past with similar groups. What they don’t realize is that Nigeria has no Military, and that Boko Haram may have to be dispatched by the people themselves, that their own protection is now in their own hands. Let them continue dreaming and fooling themselves, until they come face to face with the vandals.

Just yesterday, we started reading about the more than fifty Christians arrested in Saudi Arabia. Although the story said that this has been going on regularly in the past, I see the big noise about it now in the face of ISIS as Saudi Arabia trying to assuage ISIS. I know that we have mosques in Rome the seat of Christendom, and muslims are not arrested or harassed. Why different in Saudi Arabia?

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Lots of disturbing news are beginning to filter out about the atrocities of Boko Haram in the places they captured and with those who stayed, mostly women. First they kill all the men, the old first and then boys 18 and above. They spare the women promising to marry them. With this scenario, who says they have not married off the Chibok girls to themselves, and killed any of them who resisted. While this could be a probability, I still believe that they know the worth of holding those girls and keeping them alive. Apart from using them as shield, they must now know the great bargaining power that those girls provide for them.

Kill them, and the news will filter out if they do, the world will have no more excuses not to attack and destroy Boko Haram, so, they are keeping the girls alive against all odds, and hoping to negotiate and come to some kind of compromise with the Nigerian government by dangling the girls during negotiations as their carrot.

Boko Haram is having a ball on Nigeria’s expense, The Nigerian government is incapacitated, the Military is humiliated, the population are without direction, and the world is standing by looking on. At the end of this, for everything comes to end eventually, not even Boko Haram will be able to tell the story of their exploits. I shiver to think of what the outcome will be. Boko Haram must be stopped now.

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I read a disturbing story today about what seemed to be the insensitivity of President Jonathan toward the people of Nigerian, or it could just be him having no clue. He has repeatedly claimed to know where the girls are, and to know who Boko Haram’s sponsors are. Why he hasn’t ordered the rescue of the girls whether dead or alive, no one knows, and why he hasn’t brought these sponsors to book, again, no one knows. Could it just be cowardice, or something else? All this man has to do is give the Military a time frame to find and rescue these girls, and to kick some top Military brass out if the time frame is not met.

It is alleged that he recently undertook a business tour to one of the neighboring countries to discuss and agree about the two countries combining their efforts against Boko Haram, and that in his entourage he had one of the well known Boko Haram sponsors. Someone who has been severally accused of aiding and abetting Boko Haram, and has never been brought to book. This is the man he chose to go and discuss how to destroy Boko Haram… Does that make any sense? If this story is true, then President Jonathan is every bad name he has been called so far.

The man seems to be looking out only for himself, and his political stay. We know that he is surrounded by northern spies, but to invite them into this business is clearly a folly. Let us hope he can explain this, although he never does.

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It was only yesterday that I was writing about how Boko Haram did not have any plans from the onset about what to do with their victories, and how their sponsors only unleashed them to disorganize and disrupt the government of President Jonathan. This notion is beginning to gain more grounds than their attempt to copy ISIS. Not only were they not supposed to do more than just performing acts of rascality, and irresponsibility, they were not even supposed to do anything close to beheading, mass killings, and wiping out of villages and towns, a reckless band of murderers and destroyers of properties.

I was reading an interview this morning between two American journalists, one on the ground in northern Nigeria, and the other somewhere out there. Not only did they report that Boko Haram is emptying towns and taking them over, but the abducted girls, who have been sighted by an American surveillance plane, in groups of sixties and forties, are moved constantly, as soon as they are sighted to avoid the girls being rescued.

The good thing is that these girls are alive, if their condition can be so termed. They are there somewhere. It is also very clear that Boko Haram is finding keeping these girls a big liability. Although they are holding out against the Nigerian government over these girls, keeping them may soon not be an option anymore. Their resources are being dented deeply for keeping the girls, and we pray that they will not be mad enough to do those girls more harm before they are rescued.

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The sad news is that Boko Hara is still claiming territories in North eastern Nigeria. They have tactically kept quiet for now about setting up a Caliphate. They know there could not be two Caliphates in Nigeria, and they know also that if they want to continue getting and keeping the support from their Nigerian sponsors, they must shelve the claim of a Caliphate until such a time when their masters are ready to expose themselves. Right now, those masters are not yet ready to expose themselves, or declare who among them will be the Caliph. I don’t believe their original aim was that of a Caliphate. Moreover, their supposed claimed territories are just territories void of inhabitants. Now we hear that they are begging people in their new captured territories to stay, but they are not staying. They know how Boko Haram operates.

If they are seizing and taking over empty lands, we wonder how they plan to populate those lands. It is clear that Boko Haram had no plans from the onset, this is because those who unleashed them had no plans. What they hoped will be a simple and quick shake up on the population, a hit and run, is turning into something completely unplanned. They don’t seem to know where this thing is going. They cannot pull it back, and they cannot break the surge.

Where does all this leave our girl? In Limbo. But, hope is alive, and prayers keep pouring in.
Hope is not lost.

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