Did you hear about the threat made against Nigeria, the most populous individual Black nation on mother Earth? Africans usually say Nigeria is too big to fail because of the number of refugees that would be displaced outside. Not even those threatening Nigeria would take their refugees. Indeed, they are sending Nigerians with legally obtained visas back and reviewing or recalling the green card holders. They could care less if Nigeria becomes another Libya!
What and who has forsaken the Africans? Nigeria managers intentionally ignored available technology in their possession that can track and calculate how much natural resources, money and people are going out or coming in. So that the country can remain either their Cash Cow without accountability; or forfeit their country’s sovereignty to Foreign Salvation and God. But nothing can stop them from looting, even if it takes making a deal with the devil.
If Nigeria cannot be used as a Cash Cow within, it must be destroyed by any means. It does not make a difference how: Some, luckily not most, either pray for foreign invasion by Christian Crusade or Muslim Jihad. Patriotic Nigerians and Africans are tired of religious violence that invades Africans’ peaceful coexistence, violated by Explorers, Christian and Muslim converters with dwindling followers in their own countries since the days of Papal’s Bull in 1452 that granted Portugal the right to capture and enslave African free labor.
Most Nigerians agree that they would resist any attempt to invade their Country unless the Power that be seeks their cooperation, as Nigeria cooperated with many countries on terror, drugs, Yahoo boys in the past to neutralize some unsavory elements that kidnapped citizens or destabilized different communities. This, regardless of their religion, creed or ethnicity. Some have conveniently forgotten the role of Nigerian Soldiers around the World Peace Missions.
If they are serious about religious tolerance, they have a great deal to learn from Western Nigeria, the world’s most tolerant religious community. The Nigerian President is willing to work with them as Nigeria did during the rescue of Phillip Walton in 2020 by all Forces that included the United States Navy Seals. The US Mission in Nigeria that coordinated logistic details locally thanked the Government of Nigeria for its partnership and support during that Rescue Mission. Americans have the capacity to be diplomatic and smooth in their operations if they want to.
This is not the first time a striving or successful African community has been vanquished in the history of the world. Right from the time the Papal Bull of 1452 issued by Pope Nicholas V granted Portugal the right to capture and enslave African people along the West African Coast by the Portuguese. Then there was the Scramble for Africa by colonial brutes in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.
It did not end there, the British used Protectorate Power to impose their will on Africans from South to East Africa, recruiting Africans they had captured to fight other African entities that were far advanced and more cultured than them but without the killer instinct of war mongering. They ran down the Zulu, Ashanti, Bini, Yoruba and others under the pretext of refined “culture” and Christian religion as if the African did not have their own religion. Even successful African businesses in their communities like Black Wall Street, were vanquished under unsavory pretext. Buffalo Soldiers were denied compensation in the USA and Unregularized in Britain.
Africans still remember how Patrice Lumumba was overthrown and how Kwame Nkrumah was labeled corrupt by the most corrupt countries of the world. When they think of Africa, they see cheap or free labor and exploitation of natural resources. So they create chaos, war or sponsor terrorists only to declare war on them later. Either way, destabilization to cart away rare metals is the ultimate goal.
We can clearly see that some of the so-called terrorist organizations were created and financed by the US. Did Boko Haram inadvertently get USAID funds in Borno, the North East of Nigeria?
How much credibility do they have left that allow gullible Africans to believe those who faked nuclear enrichment in Iraq or Libya but would not dare a small country like North Korea. If they are looking for where Christians are persecuted, let them dare China. There is a penchant for invading small countries like Grenada where they could make quick exit and declare victory. But after they were bucked down in Vietnam and Afghanistan, maybe or not they learned a lesson.
Since when has the Christian crusade or Islam jihad become the indigenous religion of Africa worth dying for? These holier than thou converters have dwindling followers in their own countries like their political leaders that hardly attend Church or Mosque. Even Jesus is hardly worshipped in their holy land but the major pilgrimage attractions are in Israel as Mohammed attraction in Mecca. Both are more significant and buoyant for economic returns.
This threat of coming to save Christians or Muslims have become albatrosses on Africans. They told us to close our eyes and pray while they cart off our minerals and capture slaves for free labor. They handed us Bibles and Korans in return. It is even worse today because glorified slaves are exhausting their life savings, selling land or houses just to pay for the Slave Ships 707 abroad. There is also the fear of banning slaves from coming abroad to deposit their loot.
Nevertheless, it is time for recalibration on how we handle Terrorism in Nigeria. There are the gullible sympathizers of so called bandits and those who sponsored them into Nigeria when they became idle after the destabilization of Libya. These bandits or terrorists were political thugs used to steal Elections that have backfired on them. They can no longer tame or control their Frankenstein. So these gullible Nigerians are now asking for unity against external threats. Political thugs do overgrow their sponsors like the late Adedibu in Ibadan did.
The blessing in disguise is the determination not to be divided in the face of any foreign threat facing the Country. We must recalibrate and reassess how we handle terrorists either in the Northern or Southern part of Nigeria. Of course there are some people cheering for the invasion of the country. Even then, the majority of them are not traitors. We must not paint everyone with the same brush, especially the majority with only a minority of opportunists amongst them. Nigeria has suffered enough internal bleeding.
Jungle justice, killing innocent folks by local terrorists are losses of lives no one can justify by any means. Usually, political leaders go to war to rally the country behind them. The Nigerian leader does not have to do that. He was presented with the threat of external aggression that rallied Nigerians behind him. Those who knew him best in his home State of Osun and his adopted State of Lagos that have reservations about his character, are now solidly behind him.
Farouk Martins Areas @oomoaresa 1
