There Must Be Accountability for the Chibok ‘Abductions’

by Eze Eluchie,

Spirited efforts are being made to bury the issue of the Chibok ‘abductions’ which wasted so many young girls for political gains. Even the loquacious #BringBackOurGirls gang and its equally vociferous kingpins, particularly Oby Ezekwesili (who is yet to get rewarded) and Ms. Hadiza Usman (who has since gotten high government appointment for ‘job’ well done) seem to have conveniently lost their voices.

Nigerians, and indeed the rest of humanity, particularly all who were scammed by the politicization of terror, should insist on accountability for those who wasted or benefitted from the wastage of so many of our youths.

FREEMIND reiterates its position that the #BringBackOurGirls gang is equivalent, morally, socially and practically, to a #BringBackOurTwinTowers gang, if ever such perfidy had been contemplated after the dastardly terror acts of 9/11.

The very least we owe the girls wasted at Chibok, whose only crime was a thirst and quest for education in an area where the suppression of the girl child is institutionalized, is to bring those who caused and or benefited from their 'abduction' to justice. 

The specie of the human race worse than terrorists are those who use terror as a means to an end!

http://ezeluchie.blogspot.com.ng/2014/08/rooting-for-terror-bringbackourgirls.html

http://ezeluchie.blogspot.com/2014/05/nigerias-chibok-abductions-politicizing.html

Picture: Last known group photograph of some of the girls ‘abducted’ from Chibok Secondary School – noticeably, the Boko Haram leader, notorious for a penchant to pose with ‘prize-worthy trophies’, was never sighted near or around these girls. 

Biafra II: The Igbo’s are being killed again.

by Eze Eluchie,

Well over 45 years after the Biafra genocide was supposed to have ended, sequel to military agreements ending the Nigeria – Biafra Civil War in January 1970, military and security personnel under the command of Nigeria’s self acclaimed ‘devout Muslim’ ruler of Fulani origin, Muhammadu Buhari, have embarked upon a systematic brutal annihilation of demonstrators desirous of resuscitating efforts at ensuring the emergence of Biafra.

With the continued killing of peaceful protesters agitating for the restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption, the Nigeria military and security forces murdering innocent people of Igbo ethnic nationality in Aba, (Abia State, south eastern Nigeria) and its environs, are fast losing any claims to the rank of a people’s army and merely constituting themselves into a brutal army of occupation that must be resisted.

The Right to self determination is an enshrined fundamental right which often times intensifies in the face of efforts to suppress the right by using such vile instruments as violent repression and murder.

The Nigerian Government, under the headship of Mr. Buhari is hereby enjoined to stop the murder of peaceful protesters and ensure that the basic rights of persons living in Nigeria are respected and protected.  It is hoped that descent into full scale violence is avoided.

The likelihood of the Nigerian State surviving a new vista of violence alongside the ongoing terrorist insurgency in the Northern region championed by Boko Haram, the perennial systematic ethnic cleansing being perpetuated by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt region and the restiveness of youths in the oil-rich Niger Delta region is quite remote.  

Restructure and Renegotiate the Nigeria contraption whilst there is yet a time for such a venture to be undertaken in peace.

Picture: President Muhammadu Buhari and picture of some of the several dozens of Igbo youths thus far killed by Nigeria security operatives in the course of several pro-Biafra protests across southern Nigeria. 

The Nigerian Aberration Continues: Mortgaging a Secular State to Islamic Financial Institutions.

by Eze Eluchie,

The fact that the Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari-led regime, in constitutionally secular Nigeria, intends to raise Sukuk (Islamic) Bonds from the Islamic Development Bank to finance the huge deficit in its 2016 Budget, and that some Muslim Governors of some of the component States of the Nigerian federation will be embarking on a mission to source for financial assistance and monetary facilities from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, further brings to the fore the problems the continuing non-Restructuring and non-Renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption will pose to not only the peoples of Nigeria, but also the international community, in the very near future.

Will the Nigerian Federation and other States in Nigeria, particularly those with majority Christian and or non-Muslim populations, be in any way held responsible for the farce being perpetuated by the efforts of the Federal Government (currently led by a Muslim of recorded extremist positions) and some Muslim Governors to borrow money from the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia and other strictly Islamic institutions?

Considering that some part of the aggregated revenue of the Federation which all States (including the States whose Governors are now sourcing for Shari’a complaints loans preside over) derive some of their incomes, is comprised of Value Added Tax (VAT) receipts collected from the manufacture and sales of alcoholic brew, pork products and other ventures considered forbidden (haram) under Islam, and that it will be distasteful to some non-adherents of the Islamic faith to in a sense be contributing to the financial fortunes of the IDB, how do we intend to ever extricate ourselves and our finances from the confusion of recourse to Islamic, or any religious, institutions funds?

As the delegation of Muslims led by the Governor of Bornu  State, Kashim Shettima, and comprised of the following Governors, Nasiru El-Rufai (Kaduna), Tanko Almakura (Nassarawa) and Mohammed Abubakar (Jigawa) and several other Muslims, who have just traveled out to negotiate financial facilities based on the Shari’s principles begin to discuss terms of loans with Islamic financial experts in Saudi Arabia, would it be right to require other Nigerians who neither subscribe to the Shari’a code and who probably engage in ventures which are at cross-purposes with Islamic doctrines, to be part of servicing such financial obligation whensoever they arise?.

Going by the extent of fraud, stealing and misappropriation which have befallen other loans (external and internal) sourced by these State Governors, one can state without equivocation, that whatsoever these characters are doing in Saudi Arabia, is clearly personal and probably religious, and that their States or the populations of those States cannot be held liable for such misdeeds.

The need for a restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption is now transcending political and becoming a socio-economic imperative. The earlier we do this the better not only for our peoples, but also for foreign entities who may be tempted to continue to engage in long-term financial commitments with Nigeria.

Picture: Various denominations of the Nigerian currency (the Naira) and the Islamic Development Bank's logo.