by Eze Eluchie,
As the
charade of the Chibok ‘abductions’ continue to unfold, it is increasingly
becoming clear that in matters dealing with Hostage Negotiations and Relating
with extremist Islamist terror organizations the Western powers, Russia and the
entire international community have to enrol for proper training and briefing
from the Nigerian Government. It is also emerging that extremist Islamist
terrorists organization need to visit their Nigerian counterparts for schooling
on how to cater for hostages for over 3 years in such a manner that the
hostages come out looking far better than the leadership of the terrorist
organizations. How else can one summarize the miraculous successes recorded by
the Buhari Government in routinely securing the release of the Chibok
‘abductees’ whilst at the same time the terrorist group which supposedly
‘abducted’ these girls are engaged in continuing warfare against the Nigerian
state.
The
announcement by the Nigeria’s Federal government that 82 of the girls
‘abducted’ from the Girls secondary School in Chibok were released by Boko
Haram terrorists though most welcome, is received like previous such releases,
with some element of astonishment and incredulity. Already, the girls who were
‘released’ on Saturday (6th May 2017) are scheduled to be received
by Nigeria’s ailing President, Mr. Buhari, in Nigeria’s capital city today,
Sunday, 7th May 2017. As with previous such ‘releases’, there will
be no debriefing of the ‘released’ girls and they will thereafter be released
to their families and ‘all will live happily ever after’. Indeed!!
From the
pictures available of the now ‘released girls’, most of the residents in the
various Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps where the international
community and donor governments have poured in millions of dollars (which
mostly has been looted by domestic officials leading to a declaration of a
state of famine and starvation in the IDP Camps) would wish they had been the
one’s ‘kidnapped’ by Boko Haram – at least they would have fared far better in
the area of welfare and upkeep. Even the forever looking harassed and unkempt
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, would pray he had some of the robust
appearance of the girls his terrorist group was ‘releasing’.
Without
doubt, Western countries and other government who routinely have their
nationals kidnapped by ISIS, Al Qeida and other extremist Islamist groups would
be keenly interested in the secret ‘negotiating skills’ regularly deployed by
Nigerian authorities to attain the several releases thus far secured. What do
you offer murderous terrorists who routinely use children as suicide bombers,
wage war on the State and its security agencies, who have professed a
fatalistic desire to enthrone Shari’s laws and doctrines on a multi-ethnic
secular state, and whose leadership continue to express a desire to replace the
existing state authority in Nigeria with a State rooted and focused on the teachings
of the Quran?
When one
realizes that the ordinarily loquacious Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, who
relishes in posing for the camera with his hostages, has never been pictured or
videoed with the Chibok ‘abductees’ (right from the very first images released
of the ‘abducted’ girls which went globally viral – in the process ensnaring
global figures including the then British Prime Minister {David Cameron}, CNN
Anchor {Christine Amanpour} and then US First Lady {Michelle Obama} to
popularize the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag), and same Shekau continually assures
all, including in a video released early this month, that he has no interest in
negotiating with Nigerian authorities, one begins to wonder who actually the
Nigerian Government is negotiating with to effect the release of these girls.
Unless
perhaps the ‘terrorists’ who ‘abducted’ the Chibok girls were not the deadly
extremist Islamist terrorists the world had been made to believe struck in
Chibok on the night of April 2014, mysteriously carting away over 300 school
girls.
Whatever be
the case, with whosoever the negotiations are being conducted and for
whatsoever conditions are being extracted to effect the releases of these
hapless ‘abducted’ young maidens of Chibok Girls Secondary School, let the
‘releases’ continue! At an appropriate time under more conducive circumstances,
proper inquiries will be made into the Chibok ‘abductions’ with a view to
bringing to justice the various elements who have applied terror as an
instrument of politics.
And by the
way, what better time to announce the ‘releases’ and show that someone is in
charge, than when the ailing President's authority and ability to govern is
repeatedly being put to question by prolonged absence from public view and a
noticeably depreciating ghoulish and frail ambience.
Picture: Some
of the 21 earlier released Chibok ‘abductees’ dance with family members a day
after ‘release’ by Boko Haram.
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