A TERRORIST STATE, ANOTHER STIGMA NIGERIA CANNOT READILY AFFORD?

Now that the identity of the Delta plane leg-bomber has been conclusively determined, Icheoku says, Nigeria by necessary implication has now 'officially' become a terrorist state, courtesy of Malam Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab? In confirming the identity of the leg-bomber as his son, Dr. Umaru Mutallab senior said, “I have been receiving telephone calls from all over the world about my child who has been arrested for an alleged attempt to bomb a plane.” Like father like son, a northern Nigerian local economic terrorist who gave birth to an international bombing terrorist? This latest 'terrorist-state' identity for a country, Nigeria can ill afford in addition to a myriad of other inclement and unflattering things which it has been associated with and known for over the years. From 419 to pandemic corruption to being a transit camp for international narcotic and other illicit drugs; this other whammy of being a terrorist state is simply just one too much for a distressed Nigeria to stomach without tipping over? Therefore, Nigerian security agencies as well as whatever is left of the executive, since the president is still lying in coma in a foreign hospital in Saudi Arabia, must rally round to get to the root of this matter; and if it means sacrificing the senior Mutallab in the process, so be it; but this stigma must not be allowed to stick!

Icheoku says, northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab represents what is wrong with northern Nigeria and which they have arrogantly failed to address over the many years they have held Nigeria hostage and bilking it dry as much and as fast as they could possibly do? Nigeria is today a ghost of the many hopes at independence, frustrated, deprived, stagnated and left so anemic that its continuous survival as a country is being questioned by all that have some grey-matter in their brain and who should otherwise know. Now they have taken their nefarious activities overseas as one of them attempted to blow up an American Delta airplane inside American air-space and within American soil; but for their usual incompetence in anything and everything they handle, he ironically speaking, 'botched' it too? What a nitwit, hate-filled, nasty terrorist scumbag who have now succeeded in putting Nigeria on the hot seat of international odium and ridicule as a pariah state?

But how did northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab manage undetected to get flammable powder and a syringe of chemicals aboard two international flights and across three continents of Africa, Europe and America? Icheoku can attempt an explanation with the Lagos Nigeria side, since being who he is, he could have probably be driven right inside the tarmac without going through all the 'inconveniences' of airport security checks and screening? But in Amsterdam, who knows what his joker was to get through the security, except his last name also meant something overthere at Schiphol; or he had accomplices facilitating his nefarious and clandestine passages? This in view of the known practice of re-screening transferring passengers from foreign flights at the Schiphol, before they are allowed to take off in subsequent connecting flights? So at least the security agencies have a working platform for their already well cut out job. Northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab left Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos aboard a Boeing 777 KLM flight 588, at 11pm on Christmas Eve, arriving Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam at 5:37 a.m. on Christmas Day. After a 3hour lay-over he boarded an Airbus 330 Northwest/Delta Flight 253 to Detroit Metropolitan Airport alongside other 278 passengers and 11 crew members. The rest is now history as alert and vigilant passengers thwarted his idiocy and murderous plot before he could cause us more harm and grief? Another demonstration of the harm the crassly incompetent Nigeria's Hausa-Fulani north is willing and able to do to a Nigeria in distress!

Like the terrorist incarnate Osama bin Laden, this northern Nigerian Fulani terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab comes from enormous wealth. His father, the senior Mutallab is a multi-billionaire erstwhile chairman of Nigeria's First Bank Plc and many other sundry Islamic banks and establishments. He is from Funtua, Katsina State and by necessary implication, a distant cousin of the Nigerian President in coma, Umaru Yar'Adua. He is also a mechanical engineering student or graduate at a London University College and enjoyed a life of very pampered upbringing? So what could have driven this northern Nigerian Fulani malam into becoming a murderous terrorist, who tried albeit unsuccessfully to cause Americans so much harm. Icheoku asks, what drove such a Fulani scion of Katsina State northern Nigeria into terrorism, despite the well-heeled silver-spoon of his birth and upbringing? The answer could be found in the teachings of an intolerant religion which preaches that all infidels deserve no place here on earth and that it is a merciful act of compassion to just kill them off in order to save them from eternal damnation? What a logic on its head, one may say; but not when you are one of these God-forsaken uncircumcised zealots who have visited Nigerians with so much internal economic and physical terrorism over the many years that Nigerians have been independent; making majority of them an internally colonized and subjugated people?

One derivative out of this nightmare on Christmas day is that all the security in the world could not stop this animal from boarding two airplanes, traveling undetected for 19 hours, crossing several international datelines and time zones; and through three continents? Technically speaking he had succeeded and completed his act of terrorism, having brought the bomb-making materials aboard two international planes including a third one that brought him back from Yemen to Nigeria. He had also finished mixing the chemicals and put the gadget containing it on operational mode and was in the process of exploding it when the good Lord used some vigilant and watchful passengers to stop him cold. The fire and smoke were a result of a process in motion? Once again, a case where common-sense vigilance trumped over all the billion dollar security gadgets and equipments; and proved a more effective policing tool? Of all the gifts of the season, all Nigeria got was another stain on its ever stinking image, becoming now also a terrorist state? Regrettably, another horrible case of the north giving the whole Nigeria a bad name?

Is it ok to suggests that it is about time cameras are installed in airplanes lavatories with some blurring privacy application so that whenever a passenger spends so much time inside or engages in activities outside the normal number one or number two, it will be spotted immediately? Thhis Fulani terrorist spent over twenty minutes inside the loo practising his other trade as a terrorist chemist? These homicidal terrorists are incapable of reasoning as their motivation is something out of the ordinary and above our earthly existence. Just ask yourself, how a mechanical engineer with such a pedigree could engage in such bloody venture; except that we have precedents in Osama bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri and their fellow death merchants. Icheoku asks, what else was this guy looking for in life except that his mind is so messed up by the corrupted version of teachings of his religion that ration flew out of the window of his head? Such is atypical of most northern Nigerian Hausa-Fulanis who lack adequate reason or rationality in their actions; - hijacking everything in Nigeria without regard or let to the needs of southerners, a major stakeholder in Nigeria Plc? Our recommended panacea, saturate northern Nigeria with psychologists and psychiatrists to help resolve their conflicted selves; their brains are wrongly and negatively wired, which sometimes make them so frustrated that they often act out in this insidious way? It is our firm belief that they could use some shrinks up there in northern Nigeria, definitely!

Icheoku also asserts that contrary to the claims of the Nigeria Federal government, it does not "abhor all forms of terrorism!" Southerners and Christians alike in Nigeria, have had to put up and endure series acts of northern Nigeria induced terrorism, over the many years since Nigeria's independence without the federal government actively and proactivey doing anything serious enough to permanently stem the tide and/or punish the main pillars and sponsors of these terrorisms? Boko Haram was terrorism? Kano riots was another one? Maitasine riots another one? So was Bauchi riots was a terrorist act? And Jos; Zaria, Zaky-zaky etc. The killing of Ken Saro Wiwa was an act of terrorism perpetrated by northerner Sani Abacha. Odi and Zaki-Ibaim massacre were terrorism? The Biafran genocide was terrorism of the highest order and leading to it was systematic and continuing visiting of terror on the Igbo people before Ojukwu provided ladership to say enough is enough! Therefore, tell Icheoku, Madam Re-branding Dora Akunyili how the Nigeria Federal government "abhors all forms of terrorism;" being preached now that those northerners have exposed Nigeria's dirty little open-secret darkside by exporting their domsetic terrorism overseas?

But assuming that Mutallab senior actually warned American embassy about his terrorist son prior to his exhibition of stupidity, why was his terrorist son even granted a visa, and assuming it was an existing visa, why was it not cancelled based on the expressed concerns of his father? Is it possible that it was just a pandering embassy official who was trying to please the terrorist's all powerful northern Nigerian Fulani father and upon recognising his name, did not bother to take any necessary steps further to thoroughly screen the applicant now turned terrorist? Is it also because of his father's enormous wealth that terrorist Umar Farouk ABdul Mutallab was granted multiple entry visas to the United States for two years from June 2008 and valid through June 2010? It would seem that there is a possible culpability here too on the American embassy staff at Abuja Nigeria, and hopefully already begun investigation will uncover it.

A resident of a posh West London flat near Oxford circus and a mechanical engineering student at University College London, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had everything going for him in this world; but a good heart and properly informed mind. Even his father's decade long chairmanship of one of the biggest banks in Nigeria and its attendant pool of wealth could not buy this crazed-out terrorist love and a peace of mind? Icheoku asks, if according to this terrorist confessions, he acquired his bomb-making materials from Yemen, how come he was not detected all through the three continents he flew through until Detroit, Michigan United States of America? What a fatal inexpicable breach of security? But thankfully though, like his main tackler Mr. Schuringa said, “when you hear a pop on the plane, you’re awake, trust me;” many passengers heard the pop and awoke to their responsibility not to allow a dirty-cheap little terrorist spoil their Christmas! We agree completely with the philodophy and hereby say big kudos to all those who helped to foil this terrorist's evil plot.

The United States Federal authorities have charged the 23-year-old northern Nigerian Fulani terrorist, Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab, before U.S. District Judge Paul Borman, with attempting to destroy Northwest flight 253 with a "destructive device" as it descended into Detroit on Christmas Day. Icheoku hopes his eventual life imprisonment will find him inside a super maximum security prison burrowed several hundreds of feet below the ground somewhere in Colorado; where he will have a long time to properly think through his madness! It now behoves the Nigerian authorities to prove that they are real partners in the global struggle against the evil of terrorism. That no man who fathered and possibly supported a terrorist son of his, no matter how highly placed within the Fulani Oligarchy will go unpunished if investigations found him culpable. Now we wait to see whether heads would roll within Nigeria security apparatiques especially tose charged to maintain security at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos? Those who either directly or indirectly brought this international odium, shame and embarrassment to motherland should be punished for their action or inaction in allowing this terrorist take with him bomb-making materials out of Nigeria. It is also our candid opinion that even the senior Mutallab should be 'indicted and prosecuted for raising an imbecile who turned out to be an incompetent international terrorist; and for also technically sponsoring his terrorist trips both to Yemen and Detroit? His terrorist son is merely 23 and jobless, and spends his father's money; and used some of it to sponsor and carry out the terrorism under advisement. These are issues which Icheoku cannot wait to see how they eventually pan out and fall into their respective places. Until then, acursed be this animal, Umaru Farouk Abdul Mutallab that added extra woes to Nigerians' already overburdened and nightmarish international image, with his wicked act of terror!