Boko-Haram + Opposition : Too much for Nigerian Government
15 February 2015. By Abi Giwa
Ban Ki-moon
The war in Syria has fallen into a silence with the Islamic State and the Levants operating the bizarre: Slashing peoples' throats and setting others on fire, and making its unimaginable orgy for violence a public show. The ISIS is not alone in its orgy of violence against the innocent as Boko-Haram in Nigeria has almost brought the Nigerian government on its kneels to opposition's applause.
What does the ISIS do? It kidnaps and kills people it sees as others, believing it is visiting vengeance on a part of the world it accuses of working against it. The same thing Boko-Haram has been doing in Nigeria - kidnapping and killing people, mostly Nigerians, in order to bring the Nigerian government to ridicule before the international community.
One confusion in Nigeria today is that if the election eventually holds and the Nigeria opposition party wins or loses the election, it will not be clear whether it is Nigeria's opposition party or Boko-Haram that has won or lost the election. It is also not clear which group is more dangerous between Boko-Haram and ISIS. The latter slashes throats and roasts its captives.
Boko-Haram kidnaps mostly young women in large numbers and keep them away for marriage among themselves warriors against humanity. Many young women have been seen wearing the suicide bomb belt. Some of them had detonated their suicide belts, killed innocent people and died along with their victims. No one is sure some of the kidnapped girls have not been turned against their country. And with the election approaching, Boko-Haram has intensified its orgy for destruction of Nigerian villages in the North East.
The international community has awoken to the ISIS's orgy of violence. There is a cooperation among civilized countries to end ISIS' violence in Syria. But the news having its round today says that ISIS has started having groups outside Syria and it may take sometime to nip it and the war against it may take some long time. But in the case of Boko-Haram in Nigeria, the type of civilized countries coalition against evil in Syria has been absent.
The situation on the ground in Nigeria is becoming more confusing because it is not clear whether it is only Boko-Haram that the Nigerian government is fighting or some of the civilized countries Nigeria relies upon for a fight against the Haram's have themselves become opposition to Nigeria in the fight against Haram. America in particular. Many Nigerians had expected that America will help their country in the effort to nip Haram following the kidnap of about 300 girls from Chibok.
But what has been in the news is what many people considered useless argument over whether Americans and Nigerian troops can or cannot fight along one another against Boko-Haram or not, while humanity suffers in hands of Boko-Haram. At a time, America was reported as having said Nigerian soldiers were committing atrocities it would not identify itself, and it was why America would not allow its soldiers to fight along Nigerian soldiers.
Another time, the news said American soldiers had resorted to training Nigerian soldiers, but when the Nigerian government could not understand the position of America in the scheme of affairs, it stopped the training offered by American soldiers. The fact is that the absence of international coalition against the evil in Nigeria has strengthened Boko-Haram's hands against Nigeria. The evil organization is pushing to determine the outcome of the election in that country.
If Boko Haram succeeds and a government it believes in comes into power, Nigerians will be facing another uphill task of embracing or not to embrace Sharia. And if a party government favored by Boko-Haram comes into power in Nigeria for whatever reason like the Muslim Brotherhoods did in Egypt before the military flushed it out and replaced it with Fattah El-Sisi, the international community will have to be ready for another trouble spot in Africa that will aid the type of terrorism it wants to avoid.
What does the ISIS do? It kidnaps and kills people it sees as others, believing it is visiting vengeance on a part of the world it accuses of working against it. The same thing Boko-Haram has been doing in Nigeria - kidnapping and killing people, mostly Nigerians, in order to bring the Nigerian government to ridicule before the international community.
One confusion in Nigeria today is that if the election eventually holds and the Nigeria opposition party wins or loses the election, it will not be clear whether it is Nigeria's opposition party or Boko-Haram that has won or lost the election. It is also not clear which group is more dangerous between Boko-Haram and ISIS. The latter slashes throats and roasts its captives.
Boko-Haram kidnaps mostly young women in large numbers and keep them away for marriage among themselves warriors against humanity. Many young women have been seen wearing the suicide bomb belt. Some of them had detonated their suicide belts, killed innocent people and died along with their victims. No one is sure some of the kidnapped girls have not been turned against their country. And with the election approaching, Boko-Haram has intensified its orgy for destruction of Nigerian villages in the North East.
The international community has awoken to the ISIS's orgy of violence. There is a cooperation among civilized countries to end ISIS' violence in Syria. But the news having its round today says that ISIS has started having groups outside Syria and it may take sometime to nip it and the war against it may take some long time. But in the case of Boko-Haram in Nigeria, the type of civilized countries coalition against evil in Syria has been absent.
The situation on the ground in Nigeria is becoming more confusing because it is not clear whether it is only Boko-Haram that the Nigerian government is fighting or some of the civilized countries Nigeria relies upon for a fight against the Haram's have themselves become opposition to Nigeria in the fight against Haram. America in particular. Many Nigerians had expected that America will help their country in the effort to nip Haram following the kidnap of about 300 girls from Chibok.
But what has been in the news is what many people considered useless argument over whether Americans and Nigerian troops can or cannot fight along one another against Boko-Haram or not, while humanity suffers in hands of Boko-Haram. At a time, America was reported as having said Nigerian soldiers were committing atrocities it would not identify itself, and it was why America would not allow its soldiers to fight along Nigerian soldiers.
Another time, the news said American soldiers had resorted to training Nigerian soldiers, but when the Nigerian government could not understand the position of America in the scheme of affairs, it stopped the training offered by American soldiers. The fact is that the absence of international coalition against the evil in Nigeria has strengthened Boko-Haram's hands against Nigeria. The evil organization is pushing to determine the outcome of the election in that country.
If Boko Haram succeeds and a government it believes in comes into power, Nigerians will be facing another uphill task of embracing or not to embrace Sharia. And if a party government favored by Boko-Haram comes into power in Nigeria for whatever reason like the Muslim Brotherhoods did in Egypt before the military flushed it out and replaced it with Fattah El-Sisi, the international community will have to be ready for another trouble spot in Africa that will aid the type of terrorism it wants to avoid.
