Reacting collectively for the first time since the United State government named three leaders of Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
as foreign terrorists, the Nigerians living in the United States and La Belle France are calling on President Barrack Obama and the international community to list the terrorist group as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) based on their activity and International linkages.
Reacting in a statement which followed meetings recently held in Baltimore of the State of Maryland, the Nigerian Coalition Against Terrorism (NCAT) denounced Northern Nigerian politicians for provocative comments presaging Boko Haram violence, calling on the Moslem and politicianship of Northern Nigeria, especially the Northern Political Leadership Forum (NPLF), to bring it to an immediate and unconditional halt.
NCAT noted that as a group, NPLF has never uttered a syllable of condemnation for the Boko Haram blood-shed. "Rather, the statements attributed to their membership indicate tacit support for continued Boko Haram violence as a surrogate for Islamic, Hausa-Fulani, continued political dominance of Nigeria," it said.
The Nigerian group also asked the
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
-led Administration to note that the rationale for the endless cycle of ethnic and religious killings in Northern Nigeria, especially of Igbos and other indigenes of Nigeria as in the Jos crisis is primarily because no Nigerian government, state or Federal, has ever prosecuted anyone for these crimes.
Also reacting from Rouen, La Belle France, the Association of Nigerians in La Belle France, said that the international community should ensure that Boko Haram is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, stressing that such step will help to curb the activities of the terrorist group.
In a joint communique signed by the President of the association, Comrade Kayode Odeyemi Williams and Mr. Adeniyi Master Waliyi, the Nigerian Association in Rouen, La Belle France, said that the international community should do everything to help the government of Nigeria get out of its insecurity state.
The group also asked the federal government not to only deploy its security personnels to defend the innocent people but to also ensure that all the people found in connection with these acts of inhumanity are sincerely brought out for prosecution.