Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of President Olusegun Obasanjo has written another open letter to the leadership of the Boko Haram sect. Although she accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of hindering the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency, she faulted the insurgents for betraying the true essence of revolutionaries in directing their venom against the lower class.
"I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to a group also currently causing Nigerians a lot of pain and agony that may actually have more sense than the country’s leadership."
This is serious. Read Iyabo's shocking letter below:
Dear Boko Haram The fact that you have taken arms against the Nigerian state is no surprise. The question should be why haven’t more young people organised themselves against the state? Even the fact that your motto, ‘Against Western Education’ is in a way reasonable given the fact that your leader, martyred by the Nigerian state had university education and found no reasonable employment but had to resort to thuggery for politicians to survive, as the story goes.
He, like millions of Nigerian young people and college graduates, seeing a blighted future are doing anything to survive. They have become opportunistic desperados, almost sub?human as the stepping on and trampling on each other to death at the Immigration employment debacle indicates.
Where you’re wrong Where I think you have gotten it wrong are in two areas, if you can pardon my giving you some unsolicited advice. First, your victims are becoming more and more the people you should be attracting to your side. Take the Nyanya bus massacre.
The people that live in Nyanya are usually the clerks, messengers and other lowly office workers that live out in relative slums compared to the rest of Abuja and take public transportation to work to receive monthly salaries they barely get by on.
Consult any written work of successful revolutionaries be it French, Russian, Cuban or even the more recent uprooting of communism in Eastern Europe, to succeed you need the people to be on your side. Right now you are not achieving this.
You are targeting the group you need most. This does not make for a successful revolution but you are making yourselves into nuisances to the people and in the end while the state, including its military machine may not be able to conquer you, your downfall will be alienating these potential allies, i.e. the oppressed and down-trodden.
Dear Boko Haram!!! If your policy is "Against western education" then why are you using "Western Ammunition" to destroy innocent lives in the name of senseless idiocracy... ?
Posted: at 2-05-2014 09:56 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
dondada4040 at 2-05-2014 09:57 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Non sense letter, I wonder why people are not reasonable in this country. This letter has no meaning and cannot influence a change in our present predicament. I expect the president to do his best but not to resign because terrorism is the hardest of all fight in the world and mostly where you have Muslims that are empowered. Iraq Afghanistan and other Muslims countries are still experiencing bomb blast even with the presence of the most experienced Army in the world like US, UK and NATO. If Americans decide to be bombing themselves it will be difficult to stop even if Obama resigns and that is the same situation here. If Buhari becomes the president and the insurgents automatically stop then we will call him a better person for the job. Please let's face the reality and tackle our problems, he became a president and problems became worse after his reelection then who is the man that will take over so that the problems will be over? Pls definitely not from the north or a Muslim because one of the condition they gave is that he should be converted to a Muslim.
Posted: at 2-05-2014 09:57 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Truly, Jona should prove himself not to be a coward, and do something about this. NOTE: Boko Haram are not muslims because Islam doesn't teach violence, secondly, he truly they are muslims, why do they kill muslims, majority of the victims were muslims, A report came from some reliable sources media which claim Boko Haram to be officiated by CAN and FG, which i know might be wrong, we citizens are just saying our views, the main fact remains that only the government know who these people are.
Posted: at 2-05-2014 10:54 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Truly, Jona should prove himself not to be a coward, and do something about this. NOTE: Boko Haram are not muslims because Islam doesn't teach violence, secondly, if truly they are muslims, why do they kill muslims, majority of the victims were muslims, A report came from some reliable sources media which claim Boko Haram are officiated by CAN and FG, which i know might be wrong, we citizens are just saying our views, the main fact remains that only the government know who these people are.
Posted: at 2-05-2014 10:55 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Truly, Jona should prove himself not to be a coward, and do something about this. NOTE: Boko Haram are not muslims because Islam doesn't teach violence, secondly, if truly they are muslims, why do they kill muslims, majority of the victims were muslims, A report came from some reliable sources media which claim Boko Haram are officiated by CAN and FG, which i know might be wrong, we citizens are just saying our views, the main fact remains that only the government know who these people are.
Posted: at 2-05-2014 10:58 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
IYABO,YOUR FATHER AND YOU SHOULD BE BEHIND BARS BY NOW,BUT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE GOOD LAWYERS AND JUDGES,EVERYONE IS CORRUPT,YOUR FATHER OBASANJO HAS HAND IN THE PROBLEM WE FACE TODAY IN NIGERIA,HE IS AMONG THOSE WHO SPONSORS BOKO HARAMS,BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEEN WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANT TO DO IN NIGERIA AND ALL OF THEM ARE ANGRY AS THE MAN IS ABOUT TO BRING THE NEW NIGERIA.....ALL OF YOU ARE BOKO HARAMIST,YOUR FATHER IS A CORRUPT MAN AND SHOULD BE ARRESTED AT ONCE,IN FACT,OBASANJO FAMILY SHOULD BE JAILED FOR LIFE,
Posted: at 2-05-2014 11:29 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Iyabo writes Boko Haram, says insurgents more competent than Jonathan’s men.
Vanguard May 02, 2014
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of being a hindrance to the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency.
In an open letter to the Islamist sect, whose leadership she credited with “more sense,” Senator Obasanjo, however, faulted the insurgents for betraying the true essence of revolutionaries in directing their venom against the lower class.
Dr. Obasanjo in the 860-word letter particularly cringed at the abduction of hundreds of school girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, saying their crave for segxwal gratification is no excuse for the abduction.
While noting her surprise that more armed groups have not risen against the state given the social and living conditions of the majority of the population, she wrote:
“I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to a group also currently causing Nigerians a lot of pain and agony that may actually have more sense than the country’s leadership.
Dear Boko Haram
“The fact that you have taken arms against the Nigerian state is no surprise. The question should be why haven’t more young people organised themselves against the state?
“Even the fact that your motto, ‘Against Western Education’ is in a way reasonable given the fact that your leader, martyred by the Nigerian state had university education and found no reasonable employment but had to resort to thuggery for politicians to survive, as the story goes.
“He, like millions of Nigerian young people and college graduates, seeing a blighted future are doing anything to survive. “They have become opportunistic desperados, almost sub human as the stepping on and trampling on each other to death at the Immigration employment debacle indicates.
‘Where you’re wrong’
“Where I think you have gotten it wrong are in two areas, if you can pardon my giving you some unsolicited advice.
“First, your victims are becoming more and more the people you should be attracting to your side. Take the Nyanya bus massacre.
“The people that live in Nyanya are usually the clerks, messengers and other lowly office workers that live out in relative slums compared to the rest of Abuja and take public transportation to work to receive monthly salaries they barely get by on.
“Consult any written work of successful revolutionaries be it French, Russian, Cuban or even the more recent uprooting of communism in Eastern Europe, to succeed you need the people to be on your side. Right now you are not achieving this.
“You are targeting the group you need most. This does not make for a successful revolution but you are making yourselves into nuisances to the people and in the end while the state, including its military machine may not be able to conquer you, your downfall will be alienating these potential allies, i.e. the oppressed and down-trodden.
“Secondly, the abduction of girls. It must be hard to stay in the bush as all male revolutionaries fending for yourselves with no segxwal gratification.
Cuban example
“But again, reading up on past bush revolutionaries like the Cuban, for example, indicates that they were able to convince some women to go voluntarily with them into the bush.
“Somehow, revolutionary zeal does not include segxwal abstinence and cooking and cleaning by yourselves.
“Reading must be hard for you since you hate education but the past is a good guide to the future and if you can’t read, you are done for in organizing or succeeding in most endeavours as most things have been done before and reading up on how it was done can only serve as good guidance.
“The parents of the girls you abducted are just trying to give their daughters a chance at having successful lives. Without an education there is very little anyone can achieve in this early 21st century.
“I know living in the bush; it must still seem like the dark ages but the truth is that even with the lack of jobs and opportunities for young people in Nigeria currently, it is still better to be educated.
“An educated university graduate who was selling food from a food cart ignited the Arab Spring which was spread by use of the internet which is hard to use if you are not educated.
“There are writings, videos and stuff you post on the internet which I haven’t seen. But think of it, you can only post and use the internet because some of you have some education.
“But in the end you have no control over the distribution of your advertising and recruiting information because as you may know, the internet is really part of the western system you despise.
Why you’re succeeding
“The truth is that you have succeeded because the Nigerian state has failed to provide jobs and opportunity for its young people who you can now easily recruit. By disrupting education, you are adding to the burden of the people.
“You may say, but how about our religious issue? Let the truth be told, just as there are indigenous southern Muslims, there are indigenous northern Christians even from your epicentre in Borno State and just as you are zealous for your religion, I don’t see them giving up their religion either.
“The reasonable solution to this impasse would be for you to advocate for everyone to be able to practice their religion as they see fit with respect for each other’s beliefs.
“Remember, a couple of centuries ago, all of our ancestors below the Sahara were all animists worshipping various ‘gods.’
“This ‘One God’ — us against them situation — is a relatively recent one in our human history and you will be advised to let the originators fight it out and let your people be.”
Truly, Jona should prove himself not to be a coward, and do something about this. NOTE: Boko Haram are not muslims because Islam doesn't teach violence, secondly, if truly they are muslims, why do they kill muslims, majority of the victims were muslims, A report came from some reliable sources media which claim Boko Haram are officiated by CAN and FG, which i know might be wrong, we citizens are just saying our views, the main fact remains that only the government know who these people are.
And I even wonder why mr jonah was celebrating the first Nyanya bombing with parties in Kano, just 24 hours after the incident. There is really a rat in this KITCHEN.
IN ZAKA FADI, FADI GASKIYA, KOMAI TA JA MA A YI MAKA
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