23rd April, 2014
The bomb blasts in Nyanya, on the outskirts of Abuja, that killed more than 75 people on 14 April, and the abduction by Boko Haram terrorists of at least 200 schoolgirls in Borno State as they slept in their dormitories hours after the Abuja massacre, are just two incidents that show that the gunmen from the Sambisa forest are beasts and lunatics.
They are simply terrorists whose only aim is to spread terror, instill fear and spill as much blood as possible.
Taking human life and reading about their exploits in the newspapers the next day and sharing their ‘successes’ on the internet with friends, sympathisers and followers, seem to give them a transient sense of power, a delusion that they are Allah and can take life when they want.
The reason given by the Boko Haram terrorists that they are trying to carve out an Islamic state out of Nigeria because, according to them, western education is ‘haram’ or evil, does not square with the facts on ground.
When you bomb a motor park full of struggling Muslims who are trying to make ends meet, when you kidnap school girls who are mostly Muslims trying to get an education, or when you invade the entire village of Andoyaku in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State and massacre 25 people as they did on Monday, 21 April, how do you justify that you’re trying to create a paradise for Muslims?
How do you explain to them that the new heaven you want them to live in will have nothing ‘haram’ or evil as it is in western education life style? How do you sleep at night when the same people you’re trying to take to your new paradise groan?
It appears to us that the terrorists are trying to take their followers to hell rather than paradise. It also appears to us that the young men being used and brainwashed into believing that they are fighting for a just cause are just slaves being sent to be slaughtered.
We believe that Boko Haram terror acts are misguided and lack any decent objective. They lack any clear ideology and seem to kill for the morbid fun they derive from doing so. We call on all Nigerians to see Boko Haram fighters for who they really are: beasts and lunatics, and stop sympathising with them or their rhetoric.
Those funding them or brainwashing them may soon regret their actions as the gunmen may eventually turn their guns on them. As a country, we must be united against the evil called Boko Haram, and stop blame games. We must rather be focused and united in eradicating the evil men from the Sambisa forest.