The Custodian April 20, 2014
There seems to be no letup in
the Boko Haram insurgency in the country even as President Goodluck Jonathan
has told a surprised nation that the situation is a temporary one. Jonathan
spoke in Abuja after insurgents carried out a devastating early morning attack,
which claimed the lives of over 100 Nigerians and destroyed property worth
millions of Naira at Nyanya Motor Park, on the outskirts of the Federal
Capital.
Before
the Nyanya attack, the Federal Government had taken steps in the past to bring
the Boko Haram insurgency under check, but these efforts had seemed like
pouring water on the surface of the rock.
For
instance, as far back as September 2011 and at the height of the Boko
Haram attacks, the President had summoned a security council meeting where
he directed the security chiefs to halt the activities of the marauding
insurgents. This was after the alarming bombing of the United Nations building
in Abuja and the senseless killing of innocent workers of the world body.
To follow
this up, government had declared a state of emergency in the three most
affected states of the insurgency-Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. The idea of a state
of emergency in these states was to give the military enough teeth to battle
the insurgents, whose activities have moved a notch higher to raiding, killing
and kidnapping innocent school children in the North eastern part of the
country.
However,
the recent bombing and killing of innocent people in Nyanya and the abduction
of school children in Bornu State have heightened fears that if nothing urgent
is done now to bring the activities of the insurgents under control, Nigerians
may wake up one morning to realise, albeit to their regret, that they do not
have a country to call their own again.
The realisation of this has led to a frantic search by both the
government and the people to the problem of Boko Haram insurgency in the
country. Source sought the views of some notable Nigerians on
how to end the insurgency.
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