Boko Haram (Western education is forbidden) is the Hausa language name of the terrorist group that originated from the Northeast of Nigeria under the leadership of the late Mohammed Yusuf and this group is pursuing a political agenda to turn the current democratic Nigerian nation into a theocratic Islamic state. This group has claimed to be personally responsible for several bombings of Churches, Mosques, public places and government offices in the Northern Nigeria that have resulted in the death of thousands of Nigerians and the loss of properties that ran into millions of dollar. The entire security agencies of Nigerian government have failed woefully to curtail the terrorist activities of this group to date. This group has carried out successful terrorist activities in Abuja, Kaduna, Maiduguri and Kano unabated.
What is the way forward today in an attempt by the government of Nigeria to put a final end to the menace of Boko Haram? How do you deal with a faceless group that has no known or publicly visible leadership and organizational structure in place? Who are the Boko Harams in all reality? Is Boko Haram 100% localized or it has connections and treaties with other known terrorist groups outside Nigeria Should this group be officially allowed to get away from legal prosecutions based of the rule of law as a result of their state terrorism, murders, arsons, ethnic killings or genocides against the Nigerian Christian groups and the Northern Nigerian ethnic minorities in the name of the proposed amnesty plan of the Nigerian government? Is the amnesty for Boko Haram going to give true justice to the families and friends of the Nigerians that were killed by this terrorist organization who deserve justice on behalf of their loss ones? Will Nigeria as a nation know the true peace and and the reign of tranquility after the full implementation of this proposed amnesty for Boko Haram? Will Boko Haram accept amnesty from prosecution in the place of their organization's political agenda of turning Nigeria into an Islamic nation? Is the menace of Boko Haram the only major issue that troubles the unity, the development, the peace and the future of the Nigerian nation today?
Nigeria as a nation is failing rapidly. The current democracy is not working for the future of Nigeria and her 160 million Nigerians despite our huge natural and human resources. Nigeria is now caught and helpless between her two major domestic enemies, the unabated massive official culture of corruption and the rule of lawlessness or brutality. Nigeria is now ripe for a Sovereign National Conference of all her ethnic nationalities and religious groups. This is the best practical political solution to the Nigerian huge crises as a failing nation that could soon becomes a failed nation in all reality.
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