BOKO HARAM – Western Education is An Abomination!

BOKO HARAM – Western Education is An Abomination!

“People living in glass houses don’t throw stones.” We all know what happens when stone meets glass. Shattered pieces. A nice slice through the throat from a sharp-edged shrapnel will feel like knife passing through butter.

On a more localized level, “You don’t throw stone into the market square,” because your very own might just be shopping, and be the one receive a not-too friendly tap on the skull. We all know the consequences.

It is with this knowledge in mind, that the terrorists who had made the Sambisa Forest their home, hold hostages. With that, no sane government will throw missiles into such a camp.

But how did they come about in the first place, these bandits? They were merely a small band of anti-establishment elements, came together and gave themselves a name, leaning heavily on their religion that majority of adherence of the same faith have condemned to the point of receiving a taste of their barbaric acts. 

They needed an identity, so they gave themselves a dubious name that is interpreted to mean western education is an abominable sin to society.

Ironically, they launched their war with armaments of AK47s, hand-made bombs, mobility including communication gadgets, all products of the western education that they abhorred. 

They set about burning police stations. Caused a raucous. They quickly gained cheap popularity.

Somewhere along the line, a battle ensued at the top level between political big-wigs in a tussle for power.

One party of the gladiators felt threatened enough to reach across the Savanna desert and invite some nomadic bandits, to encamp in the vast forest land, waiting to cause mayhem should their principal lose the election.

But the incumbent saw this coming. He immediately raised the white flag, bowing gracefully out of the battle. Many of his closest aids, including no less his wife, thought of him as of faint-hearted. But he had a good reason, “The blood of fellow humans was worth more than the most coveted seat in the land,” he declared.

The bandits found themselves in abandonment, suddenly without a job, and by extension, a master; they decided to fend for themselves. They targeted small villages and ransacked them. 

At this auspicious time, Boko Haram got emboldened as they now had compatriots. But it was clear from the outset that these new set of imported bandits had little time for religious bigotry. They were simply hungry for food and money.

Gradually, the Boko Haram spirit waned and frizzled out. It was now all out brazen vandalism, brutality, mayhem, coercion and mass kidnapping, like demented men of the lunatic fringe.

This, then has become one of the most pulsating, money-grabbing enterprise that fetches millions of naira. With active connivance of a few diabolic, evil rulers and politicians who underhandedly subvert their capture by authorities.

The one-billion-dollar-question that remains unanswered: What is the purpose of mobile phone SIM registration; BVN; biometric capture; network monitoring; GPS phone tracking; social media monitoring, if the authorities are unable to track-down and flush these poisonous worms out of their forestry enclaves?

It is amazing how the intolerant want to be tolerated by the tolerant. Would the tolerant tolerate the intolerant?

Your guess is as good as mine…

Keep safe.

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