President Goodluck Jonathan was, Tuesday, urged to declare a state of emergency in all northern states where Boko Haram has been causing violence and wreaking untold hardship on innocent citizens.
A prominent member of South-South Leaders and Eldlers Forum, Chief Richard Lamai, who made the call in Lagos, said the political leadership in those states have abdicated their responsibility to their people.
He said: "Boko Haram started as a tool of political blackmail against President Jonathan, the first president from the minority tribe, and some northern elite in Borno, Yobe and Taraba vowed that they would make the nation ungovernable. But today, they have lost control over it and the fanatics do not listen to them any longer because they have now embarked on an agenda of destroying the North which invariably will affect the whole nation.
"These miscreants are wreaking havoc in the North and the leadership of the region has kept quiet. The men they armed have found out that those who sponsored them in the first place, are actually the cause of the abject poverty and lack of development of the region.
"The situation today in the region is so bad that the only way sanity can be brought back to the region is a declaration of a state of emergency that will allow for the enthronement of a template for development, so that by the time peace is restored no political leader will have the guts to loot the commonwealth of the region."
Chief Lamai explained that what makes a declaration of emergency in the violent prone states of the region imperative is that the region has suddenly lost any form of leadership and a flock without a shepherd will surely go astray.
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Mr. Amai (vomit in Hausa) is really vomiting the ogogoro he and his fellow drunken fisherman have been gulping which probably gave madam drunken fisherman a running belly. Can't he see that his brother is too ballless to rule Nigeria or he is an accomplice in these blood letting? For we hear of this killers being arrested Muslims and Christians alike but don't see them docked! Why ?! Is he too little to prosecute them or is he a branch manager ?! This is because he is the chief security officer of Nijeriya; he calls the shots, he hires and fires.
Finally Mr. Amai mentioned Taraba in his tribalistic outburst and as far I know Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma is the only political elite involved at the national level politics apart from their legislators and he is a Christian. Doesn't this add credence to the assertion that it is Bo-CAN Haram?
The previous person who posted here makes an interesting point. In the past, there have been Christians from the middle belt states that have been caught with explosives going into Enugu. The Christian Association of Nigeria has also been making a lot of noise about waging a religious war in the name of defending all Christians. It should make one question whether CAN is part of the effort to start chaos in Nigeria. There are some prominent Muslim groups also who have done very little to fight against the violence. They have even resorted to begging Boko Haram to stop their attacks. One would start to believe that these leaders of both Muslim and Christian groups (CAN) are bought and paid for to cause divisions in this nation so the godfathers above them can stay in power. A lot of these religious groups do not support the interests of anyone but themselves and their masters in my view. This is often done at the cost of life and property to others and yet some of the general public will hang on to every word of these sociopaths.
Insecurity and static poverty in Nigeria is the hallmark of Creationists. They are heirs of Slave-masters' partners. They call themselves Emires and enjoy caliphates established by Slave-masters whose culture and religion they assimilated. They rob their people and fool them to hold Allah responsible for their destitution. In order to quench this unquenchable, I urge all Nigerians and Africans in general to adopt this Durango Bill's view on Creationists. Search in google for "Creationism = Willful Ignorance" by Durango Bill