By Baron Roy
Boko Haram is killing tens of thousands but many were recruited and absorbed into the Nigerian Army. For all intent and purposes, Boko Haram has obtained legitimacy as a part of the government.
Emirs across the North have been given the mandate to set up community policing; to help check the activities of kidnappers. The kidnappers reside with them and would form the bulk of the police.
Miyetti Allah; the parent body of Fulani Herdsmen that have unleashed terror across the Middle Belt and the South, killing tens of thousands, has just been coopted by the federal government to help fight bandits. With this singular move, the Fulani Terrorists have been given official recognition as an organ of the federal government.
The Nigerian Police in Abuja has adopted the philosophy of the Islamic Hisbah police of the Sharia States; night clubs are under siege. Effectively, Abuja is no longer a secular city but Sharia compliant.
…and there’s the unproven allegation that a hundred billion has been negotiated with the kidnappers along the Abuja/Kaduna Express as future payoffs for ransoms?
Of course, proceeds from the goldmines of Northern Nigeria are retained by Northern Nigeria. Oil and Tax proceeds from Southern Nigeria are further used to finance the expansionism of Northern Nigeria. Criminality in northern Nigeria is being systematically legalized and the erstwhile non-state actors are being inducted into the mainstream.
For all intent and purposes, there is a Northern Nigerian Government in Aso Rock. I personally do not have any problem with the coming out of the closet and expanding the Northern Government. My grouse is its insistence that it is a Federal Government of Nigeria! No, that is not true; it is the Northern Government of Nigeria. Even 90% of the personnel are of northern origins anyway.
The Northern Government of Nigeria is thriving and expanding by the day; the Southern People are clueless…never mind a government! The Southern Region has got her head firmly stuck in the ground; the few with their heads above ground are, stuck on Telemundo, 40 seconds and other stories. The rest chase after rats while their abode burns! And those that pretend to represent the South in the national assembly, are the most pathetic of all. The Southern Governors are, actually irrelevant!
Dear Southern Nigeria, you don’t have sense!
#thinkAgain…oh sorry; Southerners don’t think!
Damn!!!
