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Boko Haram: The Hard Questions

My first contact with North Eastern Nigeria was in 2003 when I secured admission with the University of Maiduguri for a one-year remedial program; after which I was placed in the Physics program of the same University in 2004. For over eight years I stayed in Maiduguri visiting my native Lafia once in a while. After my four years of study, I took a teaching job at the Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology in Maiduguri. I left in November 2012 yielding to the pressure from my family. During my study, I stayed partially on campus and mostly off-campus especially in the early of it. Within that period I enjoyed the hospitality of an uncle in whose home I stayed till my graduation. So, virtually I experienced YERWA (as Maiduguri is fondly called) in its peaceful traditional state in the peak of the chaos that engulfs it. Several commentators wrote on the emergence of Boko Haram and ideology it stood for; some got it right while many are far from it. From the very beginning of this madness,
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Let's Trade the Path of The State of Israel.

It is more than six years today when some heartless fanatics stormed the little known #Chibok of Borno state and abducted more than 200 school girls. These girls were loaded and ferried to a middle of nowhere unchallenged despite a more than four hour pre attack distress call to the authority. Boko Haram came out and claim the responsibility of the abduction and threaten to sale the girls as slaves. This is not the first abduction carried out by these vampires. They have abducted several men and women of different nationalities before now; the prominent among which were the fragile Dr. Shattimah Ali Monguno, a one time minister of Energy during Gen. Gowon reign and a french family of four abducted in the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. The prominent abductees were freed after a ransom was paid. For many countries, the principle of leaving no man or woman behind is scared. But unlike other countries, the government of Nigeria only responds to the abduction of a high profile citizen (like D
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