Savannah Reports BOKO HARAM: A TIME TO THINK Henry Omoregie 1. The average weapon-wielder in Nigeria is a northerner...daggers, swords, machetes, knives etc can be found in scabbards with the average Arewan.. Check out the Suya guys or the ubiquitous mai-guards in the south for instance... 2. The average soldier (army/air force/navy) is also a northerner. 3. There are thousands of retired Generals in the north still alive with many of them stupendously rich... How come the area is ravaged daily like hot knife through butter by the most cowardly and moronic murderers of harmless, helpless, and unarmed kids, women and worshippers at night and during the day? There are thousands of cases in the south where even women and men band themselves together to chase away night-marauders, expose kidnappers, and other antisocial elements in their neighbourhoods... OPC, BAKASI BOYS of ABA, OMATA of Onitsha etc have succeeded in sanitizing most of their environments even without practical military or paramilitary experience compared to the north. Go to most streets in Lagos and you will likely find gated entries and egresses in most neighbourhoods for security purposes. All are communal efforts. Nothing from govt... But not so in the north: Instead, serving military officers of northern stock have been caught with Boko Haram links....The Hisbahs (sharia police) can seize 200,000 cartons of beer from hundreds of dealers and destroy them but cant catch a single BH idiot... HERE IS WHY: ‘Northerners Are Willing Agents of Destruction’ – Senator Turaki Senator Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, former governor of Jigawa state has said that Northerners are their own greatest enemies. Speaking during the launch of his political movement, ‘Saminuya’, at his Bandawa farm in Kazaure local government area of Jigawa, Senator Saminu Ibrahim Turaki said, “The people that destroyed the North are northerners”. He stated that “We have a crab culture in the North. You know, when the crab wants to climb it brings others down”. “In the North, we don’t like ourselves. Anybody that is in power wants to destroy his predecessor. The northerners are willing tools for whoever wants to destroy somebody” he added. 247ureports/?p=48134 PS: In the same Yobe State the last LGA elections witnessed A MASSIVE VOTER TURN OUT as APC swept the polls. No fear of Boko Haram... #oddinnit? READ: A few hours before the attack on Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, early Tuesday morning, local residents had raised the alarm that shifted the attention of officers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, to another area. “The alarm was later discovered to be false”, a close source to the Defence Headquarters told DailyPost Thursday afternoon. Our reporter had made an enquiry on why the gruesome killing of dozens of students of the school by suspected Boko Haram insurgents occurred unchallenged despite the heavy presence of military personnel in the state. Yobe is one of the three North-eastern states under the current emergency rule, others being Adamawa and Borno. On Wednesday, the Nigerian Army described as “baseless, unfounded and unfortunate”, reports that a military checkpoint was withdrawn from the vicinity of the attack. Spokesman of the ‘3’ Division Special Operation Battalion of the Nigerian Army, in Yobe, Capt. Eli Lazarus, stated this in reaction to a comment credited to the Media Aide to Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Abdulahi Begho, that soldiers close to the school were redeployed prior to the carnage without any genuine reason. “In the first place, soldiers were never deployed to the gate of the school. We don’t deploy in front of schools, give me one example where soldiers are deployed in front of a school, he said. “We have 64 boarding schools in Yobe State, so we can’t start deploying soldiers in front of every school. I wonder why somebody would say such a controversial thing. “There was no checkpoint close to Federal Government College; we had no soldiers close to the school, and there was no redeployment; that is absolute falsehood. “We have two deployments in the town, as you are entering the town. This claim is baseless, unfounded and unfortunate. “There are media reports that the Media Adviser to the State Governor, Abdulahi Begho, confirmed the story but I find it difficult to believe that he did so and if it is true, then it is quite unfortunate,” Eli said. USEFUL LINKS 1.We use yam hawking to spy on our targets – Terror suspect A suspect of the Jaji military formation bombing, Mohammed Idris, said on Friday that he and a colleague always pretended to hawk yams in order to spy on their targets. He stated this when the State Security Service paraded him and another suspect, Ibrahim Mohammed, for their alleged involvement in the bombing of St. Andrews Protestant Military Church located in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State on November 27, 2012. punchng/news/we-use-yam-hawking-to-spy-on-our-targets-terror-suspect/ 2. Suleja Bombing: Suspects were promised 72 virgins each - Witness - Vanguard News A senior Army officer whose team apprehended some of the alleged masterminds of the explosion that rocked office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Suleja, Niger State, prior to the April 16, 2011 presidential election, Wednesday, narrated before a Federal High Court in Abuja, how the suspects were nabbed while en-route Kaduna to bomb an event he said was attended by the Vice President Namadi Sambo. The witness whose identity was masked by the Federal Government which is prosecuting six of the alleged members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, told the court that after some of the suspects, who he said hid inside a trailer covered with tarpaulin, were caught, it was discovered that their sponsor had promised each of them an inheritance of 72 virgins in paradise. - See more at: vanguardngr/2012/12/suleja-bombing-suspects-were-promised-72-virgins-each-witness/#sthash.EWOWvp4q.dpuf 3. Boko Haram: Army discover N600 million in orange seller’s bank account Boko Haram: Army discover N600 million in orange seller’s bank account The military has advised the media to be objective and not to take sides with criminals. This statement was made by the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab while addressing newsmen on the activity of the military in dislodging insurgent elements from terrorism trouble-spots in his area of command. He disclosed that the army recently arrested an orange seller believed to be a Boko Haram spy with over N600 million in his account lodged within a period of three months. According to him, “When we stop those who are hawking and carrying wheelbarrow, and we said we want to check, people will shout, ‘Why are you disturbing the average person?’ And I give you example; we arrested somebody here called mai lemu (orange seller) in Kawo here. And in three months when we checked through his account, over 600 million naira has passed through that man’s account, and he sells orange here by Kawo bridge. “He is there as a lookout. He is like a spy. He looks around, gets information and feeds these guys, says this is what is happening. That is why I said we are not dealing with idiots. We are dealing with people who have one or two guys working and thinking, and giving them information. And we know that before they attack they must look at the softest locations,” he reportedly said. ynaija/boko-haram-army-discover-n600-million-in-orange-sellers-bank-account/ 4. Boko Haram: 18 soldiers face court-martial July 02, 2013 Eighteen soldiers serving in military task forces in Borno and Plateau states are to be tried by court-martial for various offences in the course of their duties. Convening a General Court Martial to try them yesterday, General Officer Commanding 3 Armoured Division of Nigerian Army, Major-General Eboibowei Awala said one officer and 17 soldiers of the division would be tried for various acts of indiscipline. He said the acts were committed while they were serving with the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order, in Borno State, and the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, in Plateau State. - See more at: vanguardngr/2013/07/18-soldiers-face-court-martial/#sthash.o93iADIZ.dpuf 5. Now who mobilizes these orange sellers, yam sellers and lovers of 72 virgins for elections/lynchings after elections? Hear ye him : Buhari: Boko Haram Is Subterfuge to Kill the North
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