Jonathan: Chibok As The Last Straw. In faraway Paris, France, when our president was asked why he didn’t go to Chibok as expected, his response was as usual scandalous and embarrassing, if not downright cold-blooded. He said he didn’t need to go to Chibok because the girls werenot in Chibok. He went further to say that, apart from psychological comfort, he did not see what his trip toChibok would have achieved. This clearly is the last straw for most Nigerians. It gets clearer each passing day that Nigeria has no president worth that title. By saying that apart from the psychological comfort, his trip to Chibok would have no value proves finally that Jonathan does not know the first thing about being the president of a nation. Of course, it is psychological comfort that going to Chibok would have provided and, in the circumstance, that would be part of the president’s job specification. As president, he should have gone to Chibok to comfort thegrieving parents of the girls and promise them in person that the Nigerian government would place every security and military asset at its disposal to get back their daughters. And for what ever that would be worth, at least some of the parents who had been telling foreign reporters that the federal government of Nigeria had abandoned them to their fate would be comforted. A second thing would also have been achieved if the president had gone to Chibok. Boko Haram terrorists, who have been reveling in the thought that the Nigerian president is weak and scared stiff of them, would start having a rethink. And, thirdly, the poorly motivated Nigerian soldiers serving in the Boko Haram-infested area of Nigeria would feel better that their commander- in-chief cares about them. But the Nigerian president doesn’t give a damn about his country, doesn’t give a damn about the people and doesn’t give the slightest damn about the country’s children.The Nigerian president has ceded a part of the territory of the entity called Federal Republic of Nigeria to terrorists and feels no qualms about that. If the world had not picked interest in the abducted Chibok girls, Jonathan would have forgotten them just as quickly as he forgot the murdered children of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, who were burnt alive bysome unhinged criminals in their dormitory recently. The greatest motivation Boko Haram gets to continue to engage in their heinous crimes against humanity is the conduct of President Jonathan.It’s a pity that Jonathan knows little of what the job of the president of a nation entails and should not have been president in the first place. Maybe Nigeria would have been a better place today if a more competent person fromthe south-south had been picked as Umaru Yar’Adua’s running mate in 2007. Sam Nda Isaiah
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 08:32:26 +0000
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