BOKO HARAM'S "LEGITMATE GRIEVANCES", WHAT WAS OBASANJO THINKING?

Icheoku says suddenly the same man who severely and severally vilified President Jonathan for not being tough enough and not going hard on Boko Haram, sullen at the recent successes recorded by the government against the terrorist urchins, has now started singing a different tune? The Ota Deity said Boko Haram has "legitimate grievances" and now wants the government to negotiate with the terrorist group? Icheoku asks, negotiate what with which terrorist group that is almost completely vanquished? Would the government negotiate with the ghosts or spirits or dead bodies of Boko Haram terrorists and agree to concede to them the swaths of territories in Northeast Nigeria to serve as their Islamic caliphate? Or rather has Muhammadu Buhari finally agreed and accepted Boko Haram's nomination of him to serve as their go-between in any negotiation with the government? So please Olusegun Obasanjo, what is it that you want Nigerians to know about this latest kite you are flying over Nigeria in the matter of Boko Haram?

Icheoku asks what is there to negotiate with Boko Haram after being roundly routed and almost defeated by a new improved and better equipped brave fighting men and women of the Nigerian armed forces? Icheoku admonishes that there is nothing to negotiate and urges the government not to accede to this Olusegun Obasanjo's latest inglorious arm-twisting. The government must not again agree to negotiate with these faceless creeps, who rejected all past overtures made in that direction; and instead, have kept terror alive in Nigeria and for such a long time. Instead of commending and congratulating the government for a job well done so far and for improvising for the denied military weaponry by the West, Olusegun Obasanjo is rather busily pontificating a nonsensical proposition? Icheoku asks which manner of a patriot would, at this stage of an overwhelming Nigerian military exploits over Boko Haram, be asking the government to start negotiating with those bloody bastards? A motley of buzzards, who have previously snubbed and reneged on every past peace overture extended to them by the government and now, Olusegun Obasanjo is telling the government to do what? 

When Icheoku expected Olusegun Obasanjo to have pressured his Western collaborators into selling Nigeria weapons and help in the fight against the insurgency, he kept mum; only to now resurface to vomit this unthinkable proposition?  Why is it now that the government is succeeding against Boko Haram and against all detractors odds, that Olusegun Obasanjo is giving his pin-head unsolicited opinion? Why is it now that the government have secured the much needed but denied weapons from other source and is successfully steamrolling over Boko Haram lunatics that Olusegun Obasanjo is offering his two cent opinion? Even when the United States deliberately refused to help Nigeria with much needed weapons and logistics, to the extent that it further pressured other countries to back down on their plans to assist Nigeria with military supplies, not a word of condemnation or solicitation issued from Olusegun Obasanjo. But now that the problem of weapons supply has been solved and the brave Nigerian military are doing brilliantly well in battles against these munchkins, it is time for Olusegun Obasanjo to open his mouth to offer this unsolicited advise? 

So what would make Olusegun Obasanjo to now begin to sing this new refrain that the government should negotiate with Boko Haram or that Boko Haram has "legitimate grievances" that need be looked into by the government?  Icheoku has always maintained that the Boko Haram crisis was purposely foist on the Jonathan administration to deny him peaceful governance of Nigeria by some foreign conspirators acting in concert with their Nigerian  collaborators, including Olusegun Obasanjo. Their mantra has always been that terrorists anywhere are terrorists everywhere and should be resisted by international effort led by America. Whether it is Al Queida, ISIS or Abu Sayaff; it has been a joint world effort with America even begging some impacted countries to please stand up and fight with promise of free weapons and logistics. So Icheoku queries  why is it that when the same genre of terrorists are killing and maiming Nigerians, burning churches and schools, kidnapping school girls as well as committing wanton rape and other gross human rights violations, that the same world led by America, found it okay to stand by and do nothing to help Nigeria overcome the challenge? Why did the Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria not treated as Boko Hram terrorist everywhere, deserving of a world concerted effort to annihilate them? Is it a case of the lives of Nigerians don't matter like every other Joe and Jane black person inhabiting this world? 

Can someone please explain to Icheoku this hypocrisy of the West that terrorists anywhere are terrorists everywhere which should be jointly, collaboratively and completely wiped out. But when it came to Boko Haram terrorists' infestation  of  Northeastern Nigeria, it became a mere regional problem of Nigeria and not a problem for the world to jointly fight off? Certain things in this world does not make any rational common sense; admitted it might make some skewed socio-economic, agenda-driven, sense of some sort which is contrived to permanently keep some people down and out in the cold and forever begging for mere handouts. As a result any gains or suspected gains being made by such a people towards improving their lives or geared towards taking their destiny in their hands, are quickly checkmated, suppressed and smashed. 

After many  decades of faltering without any meaningfully directed forward movement, Nigeria was finally beginning to register some sparks of getting its acts together and now they must be stopped. Boko Haram was cleverly, clandestinely created as a weapon of choice to sabotage this effort; and to make sure it wrecked maximum damage on Nigeria, they refused to sell Nigeria weapons to confront it. However, Nigeria dodged their curve-ball, became more creative with sourcing weapons from other sources and the effort has paid off big time.  A now well equipped, well supplied and highly motivated Nigerian military rose to the challenge and against all odds, are proving themselves worthy in every battle field.  Needless to add that the Nigerian military's  successes went against the prediction of the same West that boasted that defeating Boko Haram would be nearly impossible, if ever; that Boko Haram is so well equipped, so well trained and so well financed that it will be impossible for the "rag-tag" Nigerian military to defeat them; and that it would be only a matter of time before Boko Haram completely ran over the entire Nigeria. But to their greatest chagrin and disdain, the courageous Nigerian military told the West and to their face, we don't think so; not in our backyard and bravely rose up to the occasion and today have taken back 15 out of 16 previously Boko Haram occupied communities. 

What a feat of no mean magnitude by the Nigerian military; yet the West has not recovered much territories from nor defeated ISIS, despite their hi-tec advanced weaponry and sophisticated military. In their rush to write-off the Nigerian military as "rag-tag", they forgot how the same Nigerian military bravely did their dirty work liberating Liberia and Senegal, on their behalf, from long internecine civil wars; fought in Darfur; the Congo as well as other peacekeeping foreign missions throughout the world. But suddenly the same Africa's finest are now 'rag-tagged', murderous and kill-joys and you wonder what kind of love these people indeed really have for Nigeria as well as the entire black race. Like with their earlier useless prediction that Nigeria will break up in 2015, they have once again been proved wrong that Boko Haram can be defeated? Ashamed, they are now exploring other ways to still remain relevant in the matter of Boko Haram and Nigeria. 

Icheoku has also been wondering how suddenly Boko Haram became stronger, got more weapons, more training and more fighting capabilities as well as logistics, finance and intelligence after the United States and other Western countries were allowed into Nigeria under the guise of helping Nigeria fight Boko Haram? While their presence in the country was tolerated, Boko Haram became more audacious, more vicious, had more free range and more Nigerians lost their lives to their terror. But as soon as they were told to pack up and leave and that their services are no longer needed and they left, Boko Haram is now nearly fading into history of a once happened terrorist group in Nigeria. Icheoku asks who therefore indeed was helping who in the Boko Haram struggle and which side indeed were all these Western countries on, which refused to sell Nigeria weapons? What a shame; and ashamed of their complicity and that Nigeria was able to accomplish so much without their help or weapons, they are now scheming to foist another madness on the country.  

As usual, they had found their hatchet man, Olusegun Obasanjo, willing to throw the feeler with his idiotic comment in Dubai that Nigeria should negotiate with a now dead and nearly completely wiped out Boko Haram terrorists? Icheoku says it is the same continuing ill-will against Nigeria that is fueling their fervent interest in the forthcoming Nigerian election. An election which they forgot is Nigeria's purely internal affairs matter where they are fighting hard to impose on Nigeria, a very toxic product, Muhammadu Buhari, whom they have cleverly packaged to become Nigeria's next president. A human rights violator of the highest order; a man who murdered three innocent Nigerians and under whom every freedom was completely emasculated in Nigeria; a man who in their own clime, would be doing a long multiple life prison sentences if not already put to death for his crimes against humanity; yet they turned blind eye to all his infractions and want him to become Nigeria's president? 

Icheoku says the good news is that Nigerians are a lot wiser today than they were in years gone by, and would not have nor stand by and watch any of these conspiracies come to fruition or bring harm to Nigeria. Icheoku asks where was the West when Sani Abacha was slaughtering Nigerians? Where was the West when Sani Abacha murdered Ken Saro Wiwa, Kudirat Abiola, Pa Rewane and other notable democrats in Nigeria? Where was the West when Babangida killed Dele Giwa and Mamman Vasta? Where was the West when Muhammadu Buhari murdered those three innocent Nigerians Bartholomew Owo, Bernard Ojuolpe and Segun Lawal? Where was the West when Muhammadu Buhari overthrew a democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari? Where was the West when Babangida annulled the freest and fairest MKO Abiola election? Instead they preferred to serve MKO Abiola a cyanide-laced cup of tea and watched the man who was then the symbol of democracy in Nigeria and whose right to have his mandate restored should have been backed up by the West, gasped and convulsed to death? Instead of defending his right to have his mandate restored they sacrificed him for the proverbial "common good?" This is the same West that is now trying to sell to Nigerians a Muhammadu Buhari for president and you ask yourself what a soiled, evil intention?

It is pathetic, pitiful, painful and hurtful that the West's unbridled hypocrisy often-times assumes the toga of a 'do-gooder, I love you more than yourself imbecilic idiocy. Icheoku says to hell with Olusegun Obasanjo and his latest negotiation gimmickry. But electing to be a devil's advocate for a moment, Icheoku asks Obasanjo what "legitimate grievances" do these marauding murderers have that should be addressed or worth looking into? Also did these "legitimate grievances" suddenly effervescent to the top during President Jonathan's government? If according to Olusegun Obasanjo's skewed analytics, "only 19% of the people in Northeast Nigeria are receiving education," was that President Jonathan's government's fault or rather that of the state governments of that region as well as parents of those urchins, who are just busily making babies without adequately caring for them? 

The almajiri menace of Northern Nigeria was not a creation of the present government but an existing sociological problem, created by a decadent society that only make babies without caring for them, which problem is beginning to affect the entire country. Further if lack of education is the problem, which type of education is Olusegun Obasanjo talking about? Is it the same Western education which Boko Haram branded as being very dangerous or madrassa Sharia indoctrination or what does Olusegun Obasanjo actually mean? If "lack of education brings disparity and marginalization and leads to their unemployment and bad living condition" as Olusegun Obasanjo postulated, did the situation start under President Jonathan's government? A president, who has done more than any other past president in Nigeria to help educate these almajiris by establishing "educate while wandering" sort of nomadic education for those cattle rearers. 

What indeed does Olusegun Obasanjo want the government to negotiate with Boko Haram over and about? Do these things to be negotiated include that "Western education is dangerous"; that "only Muslims should be presidents in Nigeria"; that "all women should not go to school but remain in purdah?"; that "women should not work but are good only for making babies?"; that "Christianity should be abolished in Nigeria";  that "all churches and other places of worship which are not mosques in Nigeria should be demolished"; that "the constitution of Nigeria should be replaced with the Koran and strict adherence to Sharia Islamic law based on Wahhabism be the new law of the land"; that "adulterers should be stoned to death"; that "petty criminals should have their hands chopped off for stealing eggs?"; that "women should not drive vehicles" or 'that drinking alcoholic beverages are prohibited?" Icheoku asks Obasanjo, wha and what and what does he want Nigeria to negotiate with these nihilistic animals? What are there to negotiate with these beasts of burden, who have been fermenting mindless bloodshed in the country and what are these their "legitimate grievances" that needs looking into by the government according to  Mr Olusegun Obasanjo?

Icheoku wants Olusegun Obasanjo to please line-item all the issues to be negotiated with these mongrels and then forward it to the government for consideration. However,  would these negotiations include the resurrecting of all those innocent Nigerians that Boko Haram took their lives prematurely? Would the negotiation include Boko Haram rebuilding all those churches, schools and markets places which they wantonly destroyed? Would the negotiation include throwing a red carpet reception party for those rabid jackals to welcome them back into the fold of snake Nigerians and thank them for their exploits; and possibly hold such welcome party inside Aso Rock too for crying out loud? What a pity and indeed a very pitiful development that this deranged deity from Ota spit this vomit from his mouth. A matter made worse because some people in Nigeria still listen to him and even take what oozes out of his mouth seriously, as being all that important? 

Icheoku says short of acknowledging him as demented, everything and anything Olusegun Obasanjo makes Icheoku wanna puke. Icheoku says the gloom and sadness of some of these Nigerians who do not wish the country well, including Olusegun Obasanjo,  over the current successes recorded against Boko Haram, is becoming increasingly apparent. It shows that their gang-up against President Jonathan is not altruistic, but contrived and orchestrated with every ulterior motive imaginable to damage, hurt and derail Nigeria's current forward movement. Olusegun Obasanjo is simply out of his mind for saying that Boko Haram has "legitimate grievances" and for calling on the government to negotiate with them. Icheoku says the government MUST not and SHOULD never cave in or yield to this new blackmail by Olusegun Obasanjo to pressure a let off the heat on Boko Haram. What a jerk, a double faced-Janus, a shriveling Boko sympathizer and double-agent 007, this Baba Iyabo is!