By Lajunwon Lasisi

Amnesty request for terrorist Boko Haram sect, is a wrong miscalculation of political harangue. The request is too pedestrian and it is a thoughtless political calculation signifying the puerile mindset of the Arewa ruling class (apart from the Emir of Kano). The proponents of the amnesty are unmindful of the sanctity of lives of many Nigerians that are being terminated, consistently by the blood thirsty sub-human beings that constitute Boko Haram.

We warned the northern elites sternly in 2011 when they started their treasonable campaign of calumny, that unless an Arewa man was allowed to be president, they would make the country ungovernable for President Ebele Jonathan. Other ethnic groups that constitute other parts of Nigeria were not surprised when the threat metamorphosed to Boko Haram, and lately, Ansarul Islam, nay Islamist Jihadists, shouting “Allah is Great” during their operations, at times.

They believe it is their birthright to continue to rule the country but that was thwarted by Nigerian voters in 2011. That is why they deliberately created the hydra-headed monster called Boko Haram, a replica of Al- Qaeda terrorist international organization to torment the nation. In fact, the sect has international connections with Al-Qaeda, due to the various nationalities caught fighting for them. They are also in league with Malian rebels fighting the government of Mali. The attack on the Nigerian peace keeping force at Okene, on their way to Mali by Boko Haram, actually portrays the sect as aiding the Malian rebels within its own enclave. Some Nigerian soldiers were killed in the process.

The Arewa ruling class was there when their brothers were issuing that thoughtless threat of making the country ungovernable for Jonathan but they kept mum because they spoke for the north. When the sect started their dastardly operations by bombing an area near the Eagle’s Square on Nigeria’s 50th Independence Anniversary, 1 October, 2010, and the Nigeria Police headquarters, the northern elders clamouring for amnesty for Boko Haram did not say anything. Even when on 25 December 25, 2011 the Catholic Church at Madalla in Suleja, and other churches in many parts of the north, were bombed, their reaction was very terse and of no significance.

Even the present terse reactions of the ruling class from the north-east, and north-west, came as a result of the self-imposed agony, and ruination, not to talk of the excruciating sufferings, economic strangulation, and total insecurity being experienced by the people of these two geopolitical zones. The northern ruling class have programmed the country for war and political crisis, which they have achieved and have been grappling with. However, to turn round and ask for amnesty, for terrorist murderers, is unthinkable and baseless. They are so myopic to realise that the hydra-headed monster terrorist sect they created, has a watch word of “no surrender until the last drop of their blood is shed”. That is the type of vampire beings they are now requesting amnesty for.

It is unacceptable for any government in any part of the world to grant amnesty to terrorist murderers, regarded as enemies of mankind, and political outcasts who should be haunted for destruction. The terrorists don’t negotiate from point of strength. Rather, they could allow for truce to enable peaceful talk to take place. They even have guts to give the Federal Government conditions for the amnesty. It was only the Emir of Kano who opposed the idea of amnesty to murderers, because Boko Haram sect has turned Kano and its environs to disastrous, boiling battle ground, which is being bombed consistently by the daredevil sect. The recent bombing of Sabongari in Kano, where many southern people lost their lives, is a good example.

Again, virtually all the former heads of state of northern extraction now back amnesty for the deadly sect because of the untold devastation that Boko Haram and Ansarul Islam have brought to the north. Apart from Babangida, and Abubakar Salaam, Gowon has also joined the former military rulers of Nigeria, with a clarion call to forgive and pardon Boko Haram and Ansarul Islam, of whatever heinous crimes they might have committed against humanity.

Such an appeal is nonsensical effusion that constitutes arrant blandishment, coming from former military leaders, who were supposed to know what treasonable felony and declaration of war against one’s own fatherland means, under the pretext of Islamic religious and political interests of certain northern elites. These two awesome and heinous crimes are being committed by these animals in human skin, who just woke up one day, about two years ago, to start bombing and shooting human beings, and destroying properties, because of religious and political reasons.

We presume that our former heads of state, and the Sultan (who was former military officer) should try to reason positively well before speaking on sensitive security issues like this in future, so that people would not stigmatize them.

They have failed to realise that the two terrorist sects are at war against their fatherland; attacking churches, police headquarters and stations, strategic commercial areas in many northern states and Kano where the JTF stumbled on a cache of ammunition, AK 47 rifles and bombs in a house, on Easter Sunday, 31 March, 2013. 14 terrorists were also killed during a gun battle and others were arrested.

Those former military leaders, who asked for amnesty for  these terrorist murderers are desecrating the noble military profession, including the Sultan who first shot the first salvo, before the bandwagon of former military leaders joined him.

Nevertheless, we learn that the military have started training some personnel on tactical formations to counter terrorism. This is good news to combat the activities of the two recognized terrorist sects. However, the government should go further to checkmate the terrorists. The Jonathan government should, as a matter of urgency, arrest Ciroma, the man who made that treasonable pronouncement, and those who backed him. They should be compelled to expose the financiers of Boko Haram. In addition, the arrested Senator Ali Ndume should be rigorously drilled to name other accomplices who were behind the creation of the sect. By the time the sources of its finance are punctured and become unsustainable, the activities of the sect would die a natural death.

It would therefore not be too much to state that the state of Israel is always at war against terrorists across the Middle East countries, which she towers over and above, when it comes to counter-terrorism. Israel has the best intelligence secret service in the world. Her secret service, MOSSAD, can strike, successfully, anywhere, if invited to do so. She has the necessary experience with tactical formations to relieve us from this catastrophic insecurity of Boko Haram, if invited to complement the joint effort of the police and military. Invitation to any other country that was struck by Al-Qaeda before, putting in place necessary security measure for future occurrence, will not solve the problem of Boko Haram in Nigeria, period.

•Lasisi wrote from Lagos.

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