Vunderkind
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Since the abduction of the Chibok girls and the subsequent international media wildfire that, true to type, lasted for only a few weeks before everyone packed their bags and it became business as usual, a lot of front-page and backstage drama has unfolded.
USA volunteered to help, we read at a point. At another point, we read that USA was just going to share intelligence with Nigeria. Soon we read prominent Nigerians saying the government knew where the Chibok girls were, but they were treading VCI (very carefully indeed) to facilitate an unimpeded release of the girls.
That, too, proved to be a fluke. Malala Yousafzai was flown in. More talk. America's help turned out to be all huff and puff, and the flame of hope progressively burned dimmer.
The Bring Back Our Girls Group - with Madam Due Process as the face - got a lot of airplay too, and many believed their goals were less than humanitarian and politically neutral. Stephen Davis came along and brazenly implicated some of Nigeria's finest, and Nigerians were fine with it. The polity asked that Davis provide evidence to bury the implicated men. but, again, everything went dim.
Nigeria brokered, under the guidance of Chadian president Idriss Deby, a sham deal with Boko Haram that was supposed to secure the release of the Chibok girls but, instead, resulted in nothing but false hope, more tears and blood.
More bombings. More abductions. More deaths since April 2014. Nigeria got caught in an illlegal arms deal that tarnished the revered image of the CAN president. Nigeria blamed the USA. The USA murmured something about human rights violation. No deal, they said. You won't get any weapons from us.
Remember John McCain? He said, 'we'd rescue the Chibok girls in a New York minute. I don't need to ask permission from some guy named Goodluck' [paraphrased]. One wonders then, how long is a New York minute?
There are signs that the Nigerian-USA international relations are worsening, and one cannot but wonder what this spells for the Chibok girls.
Nigerian Bulletin has seven questions for USA and the international community, namely:
“Please, United States of America, could you please, overlook the arithmetical deficiency of governance and stop giving an excuse to this government for failing to protect us. We are trying to create, I hope a situation, where we do have conflict affected households. We do not need emergency relief supplies. We want to stop the displacement of humanity etc.
“So, please, just say that will not supply arms to Nigeria and leave it at that. But don’t say that instead you will send other things. That is not the issue at this critical moment for Nigeria. We are fighting a legitimate, a just war.”
USA volunteered to help, we read at a point. At another point, we read that USA was just going to share intelligence with Nigeria. Soon we read prominent Nigerians saying the government knew where the Chibok girls were, but they were treading VCI (very carefully indeed) to facilitate an unimpeded release of the girls.
That, too, proved to be a fluke. Malala Yousafzai was flown in. More talk. America's help turned out to be all huff and puff, and the flame of hope progressively burned dimmer.
The Bring Back Our Girls Group - with Madam Due Process as the face - got a lot of airplay too, and many believed their goals were less than humanitarian and politically neutral. Stephen Davis came along and brazenly implicated some of Nigeria's finest, and Nigerians were fine with it. The polity asked that Davis provide evidence to bury the implicated men. but, again, everything went dim.
Nigeria brokered, under the guidance of Chadian president Idriss Deby, a sham deal with Boko Haram that was supposed to secure the release of the Chibok girls but, instead, resulted in nothing but false hope, more tears and blood.
More bombings. More abductions. More deaths since April 2014. Nigeria got caught in an illlegal arms deal that tarnished the revered image of the CAN president. Nigeria blamed the USA. The USA murmured something about human rights violation. No deal, they said. You won't get any weapons from us.
Remember John McCain? He said, 'we'd rescue the Chibok girls in a New York minute. I don't need to ask permission from some guy named Goodluck' [paraphrased]. One wonders then, how long is a New York minute?
There are signs that the Nigerian-USA international relations are worsening, and one cannot but wonder what this spells for the Chibok girls.
Nigerian Bulletin has seven questions for USA and the international community, namely:
- What did they find out during their exercise in Nigeria?
- Do they know where the Chibok Girls Are? And if not, why not?
- Why can't they supply arms to the Nigerian army? The real reason this time.
- Why can we - Nigeria and the international community - not stop someone else supplying arms to Boko Haram?
- Who Is funding Boko Haram?
- Are they waiting until it is too late to help stop the carnage?
- Is Nigeria set to be the next Libya, Syria or Iraq?
“Please, United States of America, could you please, overlook the arithmetical deficiency of governance and stop giving an excuse to this government for failing to protect us. We are trying to create, I hope a situation, where we do have conflict affected households. We do not need emergency relief supplies. We want to stop the displacement of humanity etc.
“So, please, just say that will not supply arms to Nigeria and leave it at that. But don’t say that instead you will send other things. That is not the issue at this critical moment for Nigeria. We are fighting a legitimate, a just war.”