Nigeria: Mutallab - the Unanswered Questions

28 December 2009
opinion

Let us get the following fundamental points clear right away: the crime for which Farouk Umar Abdul-Mutallab stands accused before a competent jurisdiction in the motor city of Detroit, Michigan presently is highly despicable and evil. The attempt to blow-up a plane carrying 289 passengers and crew is highly despicable and condemnable under any code of civilization. The wanton slaughter of innocent lives along with his own suicide in the process is equally not supported by the teachings of any religion known to humanity, Islam inclusive.

The incident came at a particularly bad moment for Nigerians, still reeling from the vicious effects of lengthy fuel queues that defy both logic and common sense and a government that exists in name only, to say the least. Against that debilitating mosaic of a state badly in need of urgent salvation, what Nigerians hardly needed was the sort of negative publicity we experienced over the past several days.

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