PRESIDENT JONATHAN, IT IS TIME TO INVITE THE AMERICANS!

The likely disavowal in some quarters that this commentator sounds like a sell-out taken under advisement, Icheoku says to President Good(BAD)luck of Nigeria to hurry up and invite the Americans now to rid Nigeria of Boko Haram infestation or forever regret his inaction. It is obvious to any impartial observer that the security agencies in Nigeria have failed to live up to the billing of their offices and have also shameless refused and/or failed to resign as should be expected. Therefore, any similarly challenged president, privileged of some survival skills, would urgently look elsewhere to provide security for both himself and the people under siege; as a vote of no confidence on the local security apparatchik. President Jonathan therefore should immediately proceed to Washington to plead his case for help and assistance from the top-shelf security operatives the world has ever known - the Americans. Icheoku admonishes that no president or head of a family would stand by, hands akimbo, and watch helplessly as some maniacal Muslim terrorists incessantly kill, maim and destroy the citizenry without throwing his best punch forward and forcefully to help stop such wanton destruction of lives and properties. The level of the devastation, alarmingly, makes the president's signature speeches sound too hollow; now is the time to bring out the big sledge hammer and with it give those bastards hell. So President Jonathan, when would your red-line on the sand be deemed to have been crossed or are over one thousand Nigerian lives so far wasted not enough to say enough, never again?

From Iraq to Afghanistan to Philippines to Indonesia to Colombia to North Africa to Saudi Arabia to Lebanon to Somalia to Yemen and even Pakistan, the United States have always answered, with proven and provable success, clarion calls from victim-nations to come in and help drain their swamps of terrorists. Icheoku is curious that President Jonathan has so far not deemed it necessary to follow suit and invite the Americans to come and help him replicate in Northern Nigeria Islamic enclave what they know best how to do world-wide - extermination of sub-human specimens aka terrorists. Put in another way, Icheoku wants to know how many more innocent Nigerian lives need to be blow away by these murderous Northern Nigerian Islamic terrorists, before the president wakes up to confront them with deserved serious and commitment? Needless to add that this Boko Haram madness have taken over the country's psyche captive and gradually paralyzing to a crippling halt, a once highly mobile society known for enjoying life? Icheoku wants to know what it shall take for the president to really realize the magnitude of the problem at hand and the fierce urgency of now solution required, to reassure the Nigerian society that there is a worthy shepherd in charge of affairs in the land? That Nigerians are not all seating ducks waiting to be consumed by an exploding Boko Haram incendiary device and in an inferno of hate? Icheoku emphatically calls on President Jonathan to end the pestilence called Boko Haram now or he would forever be remembered as the wishy-washy and indecisive president, who was holed in Aso Rock while the country burned and waiting for an explosion inside Aso Rock before he realizes that the whole country is under siege of Boko Haram and their un-abating murderous carnage and destruction.


This latest Boko Haram bombings and high causality figure in Kano State blows every decent persons' mind and any president not rising up decisively in response thereto might as well be said not to be deserving of the office which he occupies. Icheoku therefore expects President Jonathan to demonstrate by action and not his usual sanctimonious blow-hot statements that he is actually deserving and worthy of the mandate which he is bequeathed. No Nigerian dead asked to be deported from this world by some crazy lunatics' bombs and this is the primary reason Nigerians gave President Jonathan the assignment of their protection. They deserve no less and should not be forced to make a buyer's remorse for electing an incompetent man to do the job at hand. So if President Jonathan fails or was to fail in this primary assignment of providing security, Icheoku would not hesitate in joining the chorus of those singing "his seat, let another take" if that will bring succour and solace to the polity. Imagine about 200 Nigerians dead in one fell swoop in Kano City alone and please let someone tell Icheoku that other cities are safer or daily lives in them secured? One observer pointed out that it is now a total security menace in Nigeria; to which Icheoku adds, it has already graduated to the worst horrific security nightmare ever seen in the country - just the stuff horror movies are scripted of.


Icheoku says this unnecessary Monday-night quarterbacking and pretentious show of bravado by President Jonathan, following each successful terrorist strike, visiting victims such as his visit to Kano to commiserate with the people on their killed, is not sufficient anymore. It is only a Nollywood show, orchestrated by Aso Rock to make the president appear seemingly in charge and unintimidated by the Boko Haram's ongoing carnage in the land. Icheoku is of the opinion that those forcibly dispatched to meet with their maker would have wished or preferred they lingered here on earth a little longer and not untimely forced out through a violent exit, not through any fault of their own. As usual, in his "talk is cheap" manner, President Jonathan intoned that his government will not rest until the "perpetrators are brought to book" and those "terrorist are wiped out;" to which Icheoku adds, Mr. President show Nigerians your game-plan and/or road-map to walk the talk.


Worst still these terrorists use modern communication equipment like cellphones, email, sms to aid their operations; yet Nigerian security operatives are finding it hard to track them down? Icheoku says one needs the suspension of disbelief to accept that these Boko Haram terrorists are not operating with full tacit approval of some very high and mighty members of the security agencies who provide them cover as well as some training and logistics. As a panacea, admitted it might sound like adding gasoline to the inferno, Nigerians should resort to vigilantism to protect themselves from themselves. Neighborhood watches should be able to arrest and necklace anyone with no meaningful connection or explanation in their neighborhood; just whatever it takes to peter this craziness to a stop.


Further this time calls for an eye for an eye direct reprisal approach of instantaneous justice as justice delayed is justice denied. If one church goes up in flames in the North, one mosque should simultaneously burn down in the south; if one live is lost in the North, a life should also be taken in the South. The Boko Haram induced insecurity in the land calls for a late President Yar'Adua styled no nonsense bloody crackdown approach as the days of "seventy times seventy" is and should be long gone. In short, the Mosaic Law should be instituted in Nigeria to deal with the scourge of Boko Haram since it takes a mad man to tame a mad man and a thief to catch a thief. So let us stop all these pretensions of civility and return to the days of stone ages of fire for fire to address this near complete breakdown of law and order in Boko Haram infested and quasi-controlled Nigeria.


Enough is enough and so should the president declare and NOW; before as predicted, the entity called Nigeria is no more as it yields to different separating federations! The time for drastic action to forestall the total and complete cataclysmic breakdown of law and order in the land is NOW as Nigerians, dead and/or living, are tired of all these hot-air pontifications coming out of Aso Rock without real meaningful action to back it up. A president with some backbone would have set the example of Sani Abacha when he decisively silenced the agitation of Ogoni people in Ogoniland by cutting off the proverbial head of their snake and hate him or love him, he succeeded in quelling that protest. But pandering or smooching the enemy never solves the problem as Gingrich would say of American enemies, kill them all. That is the only solution that gets result as a dead Boko Haram member cannot become a suicide bomber anymore, not in this life.


Such zero-tolerance approach works anytime it has been tried and have worked everywhere else successfully, so why not give it a chance in Northern Nigeria Islamic enclave to help wipe out these animals called Boko Haram. Just declare some swaths of Islamic Northern Nigeria, the Waziristan of Nigeria, a terrorists-infested region of the world and allow the Americans send in the Marines to come in and kick some arses. Any president worthy of his office should no longer tolerate the ongoing Boko Haram carnage in Nigeria and should do anything and everything, feasible and possible, to peter it to a stop. All possible outcry or allegation of genocidal extermination not withstanding, the president should do whatever it takes to get rid of Northern Nigeria, its Islamic Boko Haram termites, that is destructively eating up its body fabric. Imagine the atrocious audacity of this group trying to explain an inexplicable act of gross human lives wastage, as being a response to their members being detained? Icheoku counters that, at least for lack of better analytical comparison, their members are merely being detained and have not been killed or blown away; so where is the rationality for killing another just because freedom was temporarily deprived the other while awaiting trial? Insanity, insanity; these Boko Haram murderers are completely cuckoo.