By Ehi Ekhator
Nigeria got the shock of their lives on Sunday and Monday when Boko haram killed about 60 innocent Nigerians in some part of Maiduguri, and killed more than 70 and injured more than 120 people at a Nyanya park, a suburb of Abuja on Monday morning.
In his statement, he claimed that the attacks are politically motivated. A statement President Jonathan earlier said that caused uproar among Nigerians requesting him to name the source and those involved, till today, we haven’t gotten anything from Mr. President.
Mr. Metuh went on to say that Nigerians are aware of the utterances of the APC, he stood ground on the accusation that APC is behind the past and present attacks. What stops Mr. Metuh from telling Nigerians who are involved?
He said: “We stand by our earlier statements that these attacks on our people are politically motivated by unpatriotic persons, especially those in the APC, who have been making utterances and comments, promoting violence and blood-letting as a means of achieving political control.
“Nigerians are also aware of utterances by certain APC governors which have been aimed at undermining our security forces and emboldening insurgents against the people.
“Those who have been promoting violence through their utterances can now see the monster they have created. They can now see the end product of their comments; a country flowing daily with the blood of the innocent.
“The question is; how do they feel when they see the mangled and blood-soaked bodies of their victims? How do they feel when they hear the voices of the dying and the injured?
“Of course they feel nothing. Their hearts have been hardened and they are embittered by the fact that they have been rejected by the people.
“They are bitter because the people have chosen to rally round the government they love and voted for; but must they chose the path of violence and bloodletting as a response to the wishes and aspiration of the people?”, the statement queried.
As we were fighting to digest his statement coupled with the thought of whose next on the Boko Haram’s list, the opposition party, APC came up with their own statement, probably to check the initial statement by Mr. Metuh.
Though I was expecting a fight, but this time, Lai Mohammed, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disappointed me. In his statement, he admonished the PDPs for trivializing and politicizing the incident.
A moment Nigerians were crying over great loss was the same time Olisah Metuh came up with his false and LACK OF EVIDENCE accusation.
I wouldn’t blame the APCs who said the PDPs are desperate to win the next election by politicizing everything to catch the heart of Nigerians.
He said ”The PDP and the government it leads at the centre should realise that this issue is beyond politics and partisanship, and should reach out to other stakeholders to help find a way to end the insurgency that has now defied all measures, including a state of emergency.
”Trying to blame the opposition for the attack, as the harebrained PDP has irresponsibly done even when the bodies of the victims are still lying in the morgue, cannot advance a genuine push to end the insurgency,” the party said.
”PDP is so desperate that it will stop at nothing to plunge Nigeria into chaos just to achieve its objective of clinging to power at all costs. Its baseless and infantile accusation, at a time of great national pain, may be a ploy to instigate a clampdown against the opposition.
”We are therefore calling on all our members, and indeed all the good people of Nigeria, to be vigilant in the days ahead,” the party said.
Later, the SIT ON THE FENCE All Progressives Congress Chieftain, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode released his own statement but only advised the government to crush the insurgents soon. But what caught my attention was the same statement that said THOSE BEHIND IT WILL SOON BE EXPOSED. Does this mean everybody believes someone is behind the insurgents? Does this mean the Nigerian government knows what’s killing her citizens and refused to do something? Does this mean that it is not time to reveal who is behind it?
Read Fani’s statement: “I condemn the bomb blast that took place in Abuja today. The carnage was terrible. Those that are secretly behind Boko Haram and that employ the use of terror for political ends will soon be exposed. Once again I call on the government to crush the terrorists and to protect the Nigeria n people. May the souls of those that lost their lives rest in peace.”
Boko Haram is getting closer to Aso Rock and who knows what would happen next? Last month, it was an attempted jailbreak at the SSS headquarters in Abuja where 21 detainees (Boko Haram) were said to have been killed. What one could not understand was, how did 21 die? How did one person who overpowered a trained SSS combat a full team of SSS and soldiers put together? If one SSS was overpowered, how did 21 die? Where the 21 suspects with guns? Anyways, that was what people were told, and the man who took a close picture of the incident was arrested and detained for more than 10 days. Was that necessary if it was just a jailbreak as speculated?
Now it is a suburb of Abuja and soon, it would be the heart of Abuja. Maybe they would attack the Presidential villa with all their might. When this happened, Nigerians should start packing their things and go to the nearest country as IT IS FINISHED.
Nigeria politicians are playing politics with the lives of Nigerians who, I guess out of fear, cannot stand for themselves. The fear of losing their lives, fear of betrayal, and fear of lack of confidence has pinned them down in the same position for more than 30 years of misrule.
When a gunman attacked a school in United State, The President of the United State of America, Barrack Obama cried like a baby, he has oppositions but never sent words to them at the point of mourning. He empathized with the families and sworn to bring the perpetrators to book which he did within a week.
Instead of Nigeria politicians to join hands together in order to end the blood thirsty animals created by them, they have chosen to win election with the blood of Nigerians.
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