#Bringbackourgirls: Fani-Kayode accuses Northern elders

By Ehi Ekhator

High profile Nigerians are beginning to speak out on what they sense as “Pampering of  Boko Haram by the north” who seems to also cry loudly as though the Federal Government is not doing enough.

Chief Fani-Kayode

An ardent critic of the Federal Government, Chief Fami Fani-Kayode has lashed northern elders who are protecting, sponsoring and backing the insurgents in whatever way, from the Federal Governemtn’s rots.

According to Fani-Kayode, he said the issue concerning the abduction of the 234 students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, is getting clearer since some northern elders do not want troops deployed or force used against Boko Haram members.

The statement reads ” The suggestion by a group of northern elders that ”force should not be used” in securing the freedom of the abducted girls is sickening and instructive. The bitter truth about this whole matter is getting clearer by the day. It is the same people that did not want troops to be deployed to the area in the first place.

It is the same group that did not want a state of emergency to be declared in some parts of the north. It is the same group of people that have been urging the government to negotiate with Boko Haram for the last three years. It is the same group of people who have consistently asked that Boko Haram should be treated with kid gloves and that they should be offered amnesty even when the islamist group have slaughtered no less than 10,000 innocent people in the last three years.

It is the same people that are suggesting that Boko Haram is actually an agent of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). It is the same group of people that secretly rejoice when churches are burnt, when bombs are detonated, when innocent people are killed, when our soldiers are routed, when children have their throats slit, when the country is being made ”ungovernable” and when girls are abducted, sold into slavery and buried alive.

It is one of these so-called northern elders that referred to Boko Haram as ”freedom fighters” only last year. It is another that said that members of Boko Haram ought to be treated ”in the same way as the Niger Delta militants” and that they should be rehabilitated, resettled and paid large sums of money.

Today, just three weeks after the Haramites have abducted almost 300 young school girls at Chibok, burnt down their school and kept them as sex slaves and just three days after 300 innocent people were slaughtered by the same islamist group in a border town with the Camerouns, these so-called elders are saying that force must not be used against them. This is absurd, insensitive and unacceptable and their suggestion must be treated with the contempt that it deserves.

I just do not know what it will take for the Nigerian people to accept the fact that Boko Haram is the greatest evil that our country has ever had to contend with and that there can be no negotiation or dialogue with such demons in human flesh. I just do not know what it will take for these so-called northern elders to accept the fact that evil is evil, that you must never negotiate with terrorists and that their ”gentle way” way simply does not and cannot work.

The truth is that until every single member of Haramite is hunted down, brought to justice and despatched to hell where they belong there will be no peace in our country. We must also eliminate their closet supporters who secretly encourage, fund and protect them because there can be no fellowship with light and darkness.

I have always viewed all those that have suggested that Boko Haram should be treated with kid gloves with the utmost suspicion. It is either that we live in a civilised country where the rule of law prevails, where beasts have no place and where murderous animals are treated like the murderous animals that they are or we shall have no country at all.

All this talk about ”not using force” must stop because it is nonsensical, it is counter-productive and it presents a very real threat to our desire to continue as one nation. Those that abduct, rape, kill, enslave and terrorise little girls deserve no mercy and they do not deserve to live.

Those that believe that the Haramites are rational or reasonable and that ”force should not be used against them” should please give them their own daughters in exchange for our missing girls. After they have done that they can be as gentle with Boko Haram as they like.”

#Bringbackourgirls: Fani-Kayode accuses Northern elders