like keeping a fake doctor's practice open;' this
was my recent response to a die-hard trying to
defend the deplorable status quo in Nigeria. Will
we keep such doctor operating in the village for
fear of who will operate on and medicate our
patients after he is locked in jail? This is the
question we must ask ourselves.
My friend was challenging me on my recent
article in which I askedwhen Jonathan will
apologize to Nigeria for his numerous deadly
atrocities, which most recently include – Nigeria
topping the world in oil vandalism according to
OilPrice.com as contained in an article in the
Vanguard of Thursday, 10th July, 2014; our
abducted girls being as good as dead after 3
months of 'rape and murder' at the hands of
Boko Haram with no action from the Jonathan
government; Nigeria leading the world in all
terrible things including mega corruption, terror,
kidnapping, high sea piracy, hopeless national
security and defense and the rest, under the
directionless, puerile Jonathan administration.
He poised the typical three item defense of
the Jonathan administration and status
quo: 'were the girls really kidnapped? How
come some girls are escaping? Some people
are frustrating Jonathan's administration…
these are questions we need answered.'
I responded to him that...
The more of these questions he raised the more
the reasons for Jonathan's unreserved apology
and resignation. It is Jonathan after all, and his
government that bears the duty to answer the
questions he has, and arrest whoever if he or she
does exist, that has been frustrating his
government since its inception over four years
ago. It is neither his nor my duty to ponder such
questions or provide answers and remedies to
them. The state security services paid
handsomely with 25% of Nigeria's annual
budget, who are all officials, not elected, but
selected by Jonathan ultimately have the sole
duty of having answered these 'questions' and
preventing these situations since four years ago.
The escape of some girls as he mentioned would
further be posed to the Jonathan forces who
claim booby traps make it impossible for soldiers
to go in to rescue the abducted girls – how did
these women and children avoid having their
legs blown off? - this is yet another question he
should pose to Jonathan and his men.
I further explained to him that when the other
Boko Haram raised its ugly head during late
Yar'Adua's administration, to likewise 'frustrate'
his government and did so at the same time that
MEND was doing its dirty to frustrate him out of
power, Yar'Adua did not romance either. He
appropriately resolved the MEND crises, while
terminating Boko Haram completely, killing
hundreds of them and their leader. That was the
end of Boko Haram 1. This new group is totally
not connected to the Mohammed Yusuf group
and is a challenge that Jonathan created and
nurtured when 'he bombed Abuja.' Jonathan
failed to address this group in his own words as
he said them in Namibia, he used 'kid gloves for
them,' because they were in 'that part of the
country' and 'he only changed the gloves
because people in his part of the country were
worried that it could spill to their parts,' he
further stated of his approach. This is a quack
doctor, one who puts poison in the river so he
can make money when the poisoned victims are
brought to him.
As the discussion continued, my friend
commented that we the people should hold
ourselves responsible and not totally blame
Jonathan alone in the terror and crises in the
nation. Of course I took it he did not infer we
should hold ourselves responsible for the billions
of dollars the Jonathan government steals that
could give Nigeria ultra modern security systems
that will address all our security challenges. I
assumed he was just referring to the complexity
of dealing with terror, which no one denies is a
tough challenge. In response, I referred him to
Jonathan's refusal of our persistent demands –
that is, my association, the Civilian JTF, hunters
in Borno, Borno Representatives, Church leaders
in Borno, and civilians from across the nation –
who have since April asked simply for the right
to bear arms and for us civilians to be allowed
and supported by the military to swarm Sambisa
and all other neighboring forests to expunge
Boko Haram once and for all and rescue all
abducted victims from the four years passed.
I underlined that this approach was what worked
in the 80's black decade of identical terror in
neighboring Algeria, and was what the Iraq
Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki had immediately
applied to check the advance of ISIS, arming
over 2 million civilian volunteers who have been
the essential force checking ISIS terror and
protecting Iraq. I let him know that the only
logical explanation for the 'fake doctor' Jonathan
refusing this solution to the terror was the
profiting of his office and the top chiefs of
defense and army staff who were swallowing
billions from the 25% budgetary allocation to
(non)defense. The terror status quo is clearly
profiting them.
He responded that this was not exactly so, and if
civilians were armed to defend themselves, they
will later become killers. I then asked him why a
registered killer, Government Tompolo was given
billions to arm himself and other terrorists to
'defend' the pipe lines and oil installations in the
Niger Delta, a job he had done so 'well' that
Nigeria was now the most oil looted nation in the
world as aforementioned. I asked him why guns
civilians used to use to defend themselves were
seized from them when the military first went to
Borno, yet Boko Haram was systematically given
Nigerian military tanks, APC's and weapons to
use to decimate the civilians of the north. Is the
Jonathan government's plan, to arm terrorists
and disarm civilians to be left as sitting ducks to
be annihilated?
While I wait for his next reply to our email
conversation, I submit this discourse to the
public court for your opinions and contributions.
Do you as I do, believe Jonathan, the quack
doctor, should be sent to the Hague for his
dastardly atrocities to our nation; for the dead,
dying, maimed and the millions without a future;
for the immigration youth employment scandal,
the poisoning of the Niger Delta land and
waterways and the institutionalization of
corruption among numerous atrocities he
delivers as he focuses on looting the nation
blind, leaving us in a state worse than any in our
53 year history? Or do you believe the quack
doctor should be left to keep performing
surgeries on our children?
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter:
@EveryNigerian
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