by Eze Eluchie,
The
announcement by Nigeria’s Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General
Rabe Abubakar, that over 800 Boko Haram terrorists have ‘voluntarily surrendered’
to government forces serve to crystallizes
the reality (even to the most optimistic) that the entire Boko Haram facade was
a political charade.
800 Boko
Haram terrorists voluntarily surrender to Nigeria Government forces? I guess
the Muhammadu Buhari-led junta and our Defence authorities should share this
unique experience with Western powers who are forever trying to contain ISIL,
Al Qeida, Al Nusra, Hamas and other extremist Islamist terror organizations –
one does not need to be a soothsayer to predict that both Barack Obama and his
French counterpart and virtually all the leaders in the European Union states
would give an arm and a leg for the trailblazing strategy which these
characters ruling over the Nigerian contraption adopted to get their erstwhile
extremist Islamist jihadist to ‘voluntarily surrender’.
Really? Is
the world to applaud this remarkable feat and just wish away the fact that
these terrorists were the same bunch who massacred so many, beheaded hundreds,
bombed Christian places of worship killing and maiming several thousands in the
process; bombed and destroyed the United Nations main office building in Abuja
killing several UN personnel and guests in that dastardly attack; and committed
other acts of mass attrocities including the Chibok ‘abductions’?
To sweeten
the announcement, General Rabe Abubakar further pronounced that the ‘repentant
terrorists’ were in a camp in Gombe waiting to be ‘deradicalized’! De-radicalization
in Nigeria? Wow! Presumably, the ‘experts’ who were undertaking this ‘deradicalization’
process may have an inkling to what radicalized the repentant terrorists in
the first instance.
Following from
past treatment meted out to these ‘voluntarily surrendering terrorists’, it
would be expected that these ‘ex-terrorists’ will be absorbed either into the
Nigerian Military or relevant Government agencies where their terror experience
will be adequately put to use – the ‘ex-terrorists’ will be absorbed into these
government institutions at an appropriate rank befitting their experiences.
As beneficiaries
of terror entrench themselves into governance in Nigeria, and coming soon after
the charade of the Chibok ‘abductions’ gets further exposed, the world should
ready itself for more absurdities. It is however pertinent that justice, at the
international level, be ultimately served to avoid a repeat of this loathsome
conduct elsewhere in the world.
Clearly on the issue of justice for the victims, Nigerian authorities have by their pronouncements and actions shown a clear unwillingness and or inability to prosecute widespread systemic harms occasioned identifiable segments of its population– a veritable criteria for the immediate intervention of international adjudication mechanisms over the harms caused by the politicization of terrorism under the guises of 'Boko Haram'.
Clearly on the issue of justice for the victims, Nigerian authorities have by their pronouncements and actions shown a clear unwillingness and or inability to prosecute widespread systemic harms occasioned identifiable segments of its population– a veritable criteria for the immediate intervention of international adjudication mechanisms over the harms caused by the politicization of terrorism under the guises of 'Boko Haram'.
Picture: Some BH
operatives probably moving to ‘voluntarily surrender'
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