Maiduguri — Joint Task Force, JTF, in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, yesterday, said it killed a Boko Haram Commander for the North-East and North-West of Maiduguri and his lieutenants, who allegedly killed General Mamman Shuwa three weeks ago.
The name of the Commander was given as Ibn Saleh Ibrahim.
A statement by JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, said troops from the JTF, 333 Air Defence Regiment, the Department of State Security, SSS, with the support of a helicopter, conducted major offensive operations against some suspected terrorists in Nganaram, Bulabulin and Bayan Quarters in Maiduguri metropolis.
Sagir, however, said the operation was still ongoing at press time, pointing out that the late Ibn Saleh was confirmed to be responsible for the recent killing of the Nigerian Civil War hero, Gen. Mamman Shuwa through the orders of the sect's leader Abubakar Shekau.
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It is clearly evident that the JTF is now on top of the game and have brought such stifling pressure to bear on the terrorists. On their part, the terrorists’ desperation shows in their quest to clutch on select “ambassadors” to broker a negotiation to free them from the JTF chokehold, if not obtain a possible opening for a soft-landing. Surely, this situation is indicative of the heat intensity that now grills these terrorists and their nefarious sponsors. It is up to the administration to press the current vantage momentum to a conclusive end, namely, the total annihilated of the murderers, not ‘negotiate’ with criminals . For it would amount to an atrocious betrayal of the law abiding citizens of this nation, the survivors of the mindless slaughter and the spirits of thousands of innocent victims, should this administration go into a "peace negotiation” tango with insane fanatics and zealots . With the scale of bloodletting and devastation under their belts, these criminals and their sponsors deserve nothing other than to hang from nooses like stray dogs. That is as far as the good part goes. Now, to the bad part. It is an outrage that, Mohamed Shuwa, notorious for his masochism, is here being characterized as "Civil War hero”. It is shamefully and egregiously offensive to human decency for this "top adviser to Yakubu Gowon, ... who led Nigeria during the 1967-70 Biafra civil war that left more than one million dead, including many from starvation" to be acknowledged as “hero”. Millions of innocent, defenseless civilians -including women and children- are murdered, and perpetrators of genocide extolled for heroism? Good gracious! Another thing! What we are being told is that the 50,000 Igbo victims of the 1966 pogrom were not “human” enough to get the attention of the so-called “Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International “, now shouting their heads off in the protection of criminals and murderers. Whoever they are, these devil’s advocates choose to be blindsided when it comes to the murder of Igbo people. The shadowy, mischievous “Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International” groups drum up and peddle all the misinformation. Misguided individuals among us are the protagonists of the so-called “Human Rights Watch” false propaganda. It is absolutely clear that, in Nigeria’s own terms, the scale of odium in the very act of human destruction is the determinant for qualification for heroism. But in decent, civilized cultures, the massacre of millions of one's own compatriots is hardly reconcilable with acceptable social norms, let alone social anointing of heroism. There is every reason to believe that, as a society, we have turned irredeemably unscrupulous and maniacally monstrous. It is now such that human life does not mean a thing to us anymore. For as long as we choose to build on a template that attaches glamor to deadly impunity and openly and sardonically savor the celebration, rather than the condemnation and punishment of architects of murder and genocide, so long shall Nigeria continue to be ravaged by the tyranny of human impunity.