While the world is waiting for news, any news about the abducted 276 school girls, the Boko Haram is simply going about their business of killing and maiming, daring anyone to stop them, but they will be stopped!.
The Nigerian Army is shamelessly claiming that their inability to stop the deadly surge of the Boko Haram is because Boko Haram is more equipped than the Army. And we should believe this?!

Nigeria is a country where daylight thievery has become normal occurrence. The thieves snatch with boldness and with grinta (aggression) as if the law permits it. Boko Haram at the beginning were a bunch of ragamuffins, who were armed with weapons obtained largely from the military or the police, just as the armed robbers were mostly armed by the police. These are open secrets. It is also an open secret that the government is constantly arming the military. It will be to the peril of the government if she does not arm the military. Where do these arms, the better arms, the more sophisticated ones go? The military started arming Boko Haram from the onset, and they are still arming Boko Haram.

The government and especially the President himself is now a hostage of the Nigerian military, which is still made up of two thirds of the Northerners. The North has always frowned at equal representation in the military. So they have the knife, and they have the yam, as the Igbos say. In other words, they have the guns and they deal with the country as they choose. They have always blackmailed the country into doing their every whim.

Boko Haram is the brain child of the Northern Oligarchy that uses the military to fuel and oil Boko Haram. Whom are they fooling? The Nigerian Military would have the arms to quell Boko Haram if they wanted to. But the fact is that they use Boko Haram to covertly fight against the rest of the country. They give Boko Haram the better arms, and Boko Haram goes off and kills the Christians. How very convenient! Then they cry wolf, telling the world that they have no arms to fight Boko Haram.

They have been armed. They have always been armed, but they have chosen to let Boko Haram to do the dirty job for them. They too are liable! The lying thieves! The Nigerian Army should have been dissolved and re-constituted with new blood after Nigeria went democratic. Since that was not done, the army is still filled with the same old crooks who are still fleecing the country, as well as holding the country in a strangle hold.
Mr. Goodluck Jonathan is still alive today because the North knows that his death will trigger an all-out civil war, but he has been tied hands and feet and held hostage. I bleed for Nigeria.

Our Ancestors are now at war with Boko Haram! People may think that this is a joke, but Boko Haram should be warned. Our Lord Jesus Christ told us that the sin against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven. Similarly, our Ancestors say that a sin against Mother Earth cannot be forgiven. Boko Haram has sinned against Mother Earth! Taking those girls as they did, and who knows what God forsaken things they are doing to those girls, has angered our Ancestors, and they will seek, are already seeking revenge!

Today, it is our traditional hunters that have been stirred to action. Tomorrow, we do not know what or who Mother Earth will stir. The gods do not need us humans to fight their battle, just as God does not need His creatures to fight His battle. It is in the Scriptures, the one I know and read, the Bible. They have their own equivalent to the Bible, the Quran. I will like them to show the world where in it that their god told them to fight his battle, worshippers of a blood sucking god!

The ground you are standing on will rise against you, all the elements of the earth will encircle and gore you! You have lost your sleep!! You have no hiding place!!!

The girls, no matter what, are living Saints. You have already done your worse; and nothing can be worse than what you have already done and are doing to those girls. You and your sponsors will be visited a hundred fold, times hundred with what each of those girls are going through. Our Ancestors are angry, and woe on you when this happens. We are waiting to hear the outcome of this, the outcome of your madness. When that time comes, your blood thirsty god will not be able to help you, talk less of giving you protection, or making you martyrs as you believe. But then the devil has saints and martyrs; blood guzzlers from hell!

The Devil will never defeat God!

About the Nigerian Army … that will be for another day.

All Hopes Are Not Gone!

All Hopes Are Not Gone!
All Hopes Are Not Gone!
All Hopes Are Not Gone!

I wish I could write this 276 times!
For

All Hopes Cannot Be Gone!!!

The Nigerian Government is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram!
The Nigerian Government is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram!!
The Nigerian Government is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram!!!

The clock is ticking!
The clock is ticking!!
The clock is ticking!!!

The Days… oh! The Days are piling up! The Nigerian Government should get on with it!

The detention Camp… pure hell!!

Sweet Babies don’t lose hope. Be strong. We are all praying for you. The whole world, that is, so be strong. Everything that has a beginning must have an end. This torture will surely come to an end, once and for all, one way or the other!!!

Be Strong!
Be Strong!!
Be Strong!!!

Let your Spirits be strong. They can only touch your bodies, or take your bodies, but not your Spirits, so hold on to your Spirits and be strong. In the end, they lose, and you win! You are already martyrs, the real martyrs, living martyrs.

Never lose hope!
Never lose hope!!
Never lose hope!!!

The Nigerian Government should get on with it!!
The Nigerian Government should get on with it!!!
#BringBackOurGirls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I think of Nigeria, the image that comes to my mind is that of a mighty Iroko tree precariously standing on rotting roots. What can be done to this tree? Cut it down before it falls by itself with disastrous consequences. How can Nigeria be saved without the cleaning and removing of all the debris in the rotting foundation that is threatening the collapse of the nation. We know that patching things up does not work. War did not teach us anything, did not change anything, instead it multiplied the problems. While before we had to contend with only three regions, today we have to contend with thirty six States plus Abuja.

After the civil war, the ruling class decided to weaken the big power blocks by carving the country up into smaller States. This process did not solve the perennial problems of the country but rather created much bigger problems.The exercise became a colossal failure because it was still done along language and tribal lines, still consolidating and concentrating power. As a result, every tribe and every language now want their own State. If the ruling class had foresight or at least had interest in unifying the country, they would have followed a different pattern in creating the States, a pattern that did not lump the same tribe or language together in the same State, but a pattern that brought together an equal ratio of the different peoples that make up Nigeria into one State, even if this would mean uprooting people and planting them elsewhere.

This pattern would have created less States with equal representation, and although painful at first, in the long run it would have the whole country running as one. The problem of how to quell that constant demand for more States will be nonexistent. In the present system, the minority languages and tribes still see the rationale behind the creation of the present States as exclusive of them and their interests. The constant clamor for the creation of more States will continue to plague the country and will not disappear. If care is not taken, Nigeria will end with States made up of single families.

There is no way we can solve the problems of Nigeria without feeling the pains, and there is no way we can begin to solve these problems without changing our mindset. No single people should believe that they own Nigeria. The survival of Nigeria as a country lies squarely in the hands of Nigerians. They can either go it the way of peace, or the way of war. But I can assure you, my people, the way of peace is the only way. We have tried the way of war and it did not work. Let us put our greed aside, and our self-serving aside, and embrace peace, or else …

Just two months ago, I was living in fear in Lagos. We had the Boko Haram causing havoc in the North, and the kidnappers having a field day in the South, especially in the South East. Lagos seemed calm on the surface, but deep inside, there was tension everywhere. The Boko Haram was bragging and boasting that they will soon hit Lagos, and other major towns in the South. The Governor of Lagos was assuring Lagosians that it will never happen. Down where I live in the outskirts of Lagos, there were signs that it could happen.

Every day, we saw groups of strange looking boys and men with nylon bags, roaming the streets, and sometimes, converging together at particular spots, waiting…

One day, a friend of mine and I saw some members of these group walking through our Estate. We stopped them to ask where they were coming from and where they were headed. Their spokesperson told us that they were day workers looking for job. We did not believe them, but we warned them to always go through the main gate if they were to come to the Estate, so that the security will search their bags before letting them through.

We have never seen so many strange people converging near our estate until that threat from Boko Haram, when we started taking notice of them. They have to be watched. They look and act like people waiting for some order to be given them. I believe that if they have been able to find someone willing to hide, support, and sponsor them in Lagos, they would have done the un-thinkable. They are still roaming, and I believe, studying the town. The group is also getting larger by the day. If the authorities go to the Isheri/Magodo major road any morning before eight o’clock, they will be there, a large group of strange looking people, acting strangely too.

The present administration of Lagos, and I mean that of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has given me hope that Nigeria could still be savaged. Of all the governors in Nigeria, and all the Lagos governors before him, he is the only one who has governed and has something to show for his governorship. Rulership in Nigeria has always been winner takes all. It used to be that the winner took ten percent and left ninety percent for development. Today the winner takes ninety percent and leaves only ten percent for development.

No wonder we can hardly see much development, but not so in Lagos. It is clear that the winner is leaving something substantial for development in Lagos, because we can see the development. Well done governor! I hope that the one coming after you will build on the foundation that you have laid. The usual thing we know is that the new person tears everything down and uses that as a loophole to steal. The new person will be judged by your standards.

Still on the abducted girls, news is coming out from all directions about who is to blame for this nefarious action. We have read about the family of the girls being blamed for not releasing the names of the girls. Doesn’t the school have a roster? Or was that just a ploy for killing time? Amnesty now tells us that the government was warned four hours before the miscreants struck. We know that the government did nothing about this warning.
Powerful Muslim leaders, whom we suspect as being the sponsors and protectors of the group, are now dissociating themselves openly from this monster that they created. This is simply telling us that they have lost control of the group. They should also tell us how they plan to diffuse this bomb that they created, which now has a mind of its own.

The North has earned the mistrust of the whole country. Not that we trusted each other before, but now, it is very clear that although these assaults take place in the North, they are very selective. The marauders know who, where, and when to strike. Even now, their informants know where the girls are but they are not talking. Someone is shopping, cooking and feeding these girls, and still they claim they do not know where they are. And they want the world to believe that Boko Haram is not about the Muslim religion.

They know, because they have this secret way of dissemination information among themselves. In townships in the South where they work as gatemen and night watchmen, you see them always with short wave radios. The radio tells them when to move and when to stay. Anytime there is serious trouble in the North involving the killing of Southerners, the next day all the Northerner in the South will be gone. They know.

We are learning that the government is delaying in giving permission for the use of drones to fish out the hideout of these hoodlums. First, the government knows that they cannot fight this battle, they said that themselves, so why delay? If they want America to help, they should allow America to help, without obstructions, without further delays, the clock is ticking for those girls, and every minute is vital.

Thank God that the world has taken notice, thank God for the outcry. Boko Haram menace did not start with the abduction of the girls. The hoodlums have always chosen important Christian events to release their mayhem on the Christians, and have always gotten away with it. No one has ever been held responsible for their actions. Even now, with the escalation of their action in abducting the girls, no one will be held responsible, because the actual people behind these actions have no faces, are cowards who will never have the courage to accept their responsibility openly, or face the world. Cowards! These are people who hide behind women and children to do evil.

Let me shine the torch on Northern Nigeria to show who these people really are. Since Nigeria’s independence the rest of the country has handled the North with kid’s glove, giving in to all their whims. So much so that the North has come to believe that it is their right to get whatever they wanted.

They have championed and manipulated laws that protected only their own interest in the country. Take the equal representation law which means that all States will be equally represented at the Federal level. Good enough, but then in the Nigerian Army, where the ratio is three to one in favor of the North, the North snubs equal representation. The North has used their majority in the Army to intimidate, antagonize, and rule Nigeria for fifty years.

Equal representation allowed the North to entrench mediocrity at all Federal levels by taking positions of power at the federal level, for which they were not qualified or experienced. With little or no qualification they became directors and heads of departments, over a Southern over qualified permanent secretary who actually did the job. Because of this, our civil service became compromised, corrupt, and watered down to meet their standards.
Standards for admission into the federal colleges are lowered to allow students from the North to be admitted with lower GPAs, while students from the South with higher GPAs are left out because of the quota system or the State of Origin syndrome. Oil is drilled in the South, with all the oil towns in ravages, while the refinery is in the North. What economic sense! Federal roads in the South are mostly in dis-repair, while one can travel the Federal roads in the North for a day without seeing a town or village, just a stretch of well-kept and endless road. If anyone wants to know how Nigeria went from grace to grass, there it is. Standards continue to be lowered to assuage the North to no avail.

The North has used the State of Origin law to force the South to live in their own country as foreigners. Southerners work in the North on contracts, if they are hired, to ensure that they stayed on the jobs long enough for the Northern indigenes to be trained to take over from them. Otherwise Northerners prefer hiring expatriates over Southerners.

Going by the law of equal representation, the South should rule Nigeria for another fifty years before the North can rule again, but that may not be the case. The North will continue to agitate, as they have done through all these years with killings and butchering to impose their rule on Nigeria. If the law does not favor them, they will twist and bend it to favor them, or they will create disturbances and distractions to force their will on the rest of the country. The North should go their separate way because they will never win this battle.

Today, Boko Haram showed the world a lineup of girls which they claimed were the kidnapped girls. Really?! And we should believe them? I pray you world, do not buy their ploy. Those girls they showed, well dressed, clean, and well fed are not the abducted girls. They think that they can take the whole world for a ride as they have done with Nigeria. Let them continue to boast and brag, about their exploits. When they are caught, and they will be caught, we will see them for the groveling cowards that they are.

They want an exchange, with what? Maybe for money. They cannot be expecting to exchange the girls with some real people. Their days are numbered. It is just a question of time. Where are the Gumis and the Maitasines of yesterday? This group of ragamuffins will also end the same way as those before them. It is just a matter of time. Their protectors and sponsors will also be exposed, and will pay for their crime. Nothing is ever hidden under the sun that will not be exposed in the end. Those of you holding Nigeria ransom for your personal greed, will all be exposed, and will very soon pay for your crime against humanity.

The North wants to rule Nigeria forever. Look at what they have done to the country with their past rule of over, did I say twenty years? Oh my God! Please make that fifty years. Nigeria got her independence in 1960, and from that time to Obasonjo’s rule in 1999, the North ruled. For fifty years, they plunged the country back into the dark ages by ruling the country as they rule their people; the Lords over their serfs. . Obasonjo was the first democratically elected President from the South, after fifty years of Northern and military rule. During his rule, the North agitated for a return to power, and they did return to power for another eight years. In fact, the election of the present President, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan could be regarded as an accident, a miscalculation on their part. It was never meant to happen. The Boko Harams menace is their stunt for making sure that no other Southerner comes to rule again.

It is sad to see how the North always manages to twist the law in their favor. When things do not favor them, they invoke the law of equal representation. If things favor them, they throw this law out of the window. They have used the cooked up census that I mentioned elsewhere as a carrot to dangle in front of the rest of the country whenever things do not go their way, and we know who left us that legacy. I am for the three powerful nations of Nigeria going their separate ways. Enough is enough.