Boko Haram's Sunday attacks.

Boko Haram , the Islamic extremists attacked Maiduguri today from four fronts, but met a stiff opposition from government forces. The militants killed at least 12 people as government forces repelled the multiple attacks by the group in Maiduguri city, capital of Borno state.

About 37 other people who sustained injuries in the attacks are being treated at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri

The attacks have caused panic in Borno state, particularly in Maiduguri and the surrounding communities. Major roads have been cordoned off by security operatives and residents were advised to stay indoors.

Meanwhile, in a separate attack, a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber killed himself and eight others at the home of politician Sabo Garbu in Potiskum, in neighboring Yobe state during a PDP meeting.

Female Suicide Bombers Strike in Kano, Northern Nigeria

The aftermath of  the market bombing in Kano State (AFP Photo/Aminu Abubakar)

Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives in Kantin Kwari textile market located in the center of Kano, Wednesday, killing four and injuring seven

The two female bombers are suspected to be part of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram .

This incident indicates the rising wave of of female bombers in Nigeria, and the worrisome part is that these girls are very young girls who have been brain washed into carrying out such dastardly acts.

BOKO HARAM AND THEIR REIGN OF TERROR

 

The name Boko Haram need no introduction, neither do the story of their many infamous acts need to be enumerated, but they left us no choice, day by day, they made world headlines with their daring and heartless offensives on the populace.

When it all started, we thought it was mere child’s play, and so looked down on them as a purposeless, barbaric, and uneducated group of hoodlums out to deal with Christians. We thought that like every other insurgent group that rose from the North, it would run its course and die a natural death. Little did we know we were wrong, from pocket of attacks here and there, they became bodacious and dare devils in their malicious terror assaults.

They come, they bomb, they kill, they maim, and they kidnap, leaving behind tales of deaths, tears, anguish, sorrow and heartbreak on victims, survivors, families and the nation as a whole.

They seemed well informed, well armed, well equipped with sophisticated weapons, well funded and well focused in their dastardly acts. All these combined gave them an invincible aura and a larger than life image.

Boko Haram is not a group made up of spirits or out of space aliens; they are human beings living among us and operating within us. However, they are a group of evil genius; (I have to call them that), who over the years has built a band of loyalist with tentacles all over the main frame of the country’s fort.

 Though, even if we try to deny it or fail to acknowledge it as a nation, we know individually that they have members in every strategic position in Nigeria, that’s why they thrive successfully in every of their operations.

Maybe the initiators and sponsors of Boko Haram never knew they were hatching a monster when they formed the sect to perpetuate Islamist ideals and tenets. Today that little monster has grown so monstrous that they could neither tame nor control it any more. Yes, the monster is threatening to consume its creators and they have no choice than to cringe and shiver in fear.

There is no gainsaying that the Northern leaders and elders have no hand in the rise and sustenance of Boko Haram in Nigeria, that’s why they cannot come out boldly to condemn their evil acts initially. Now because more than 200 school girls were kidnapped last month and the ire of the whole world is upon them, most of their core supporters are scurrying out with feeble condemnations.

If truly and honestly they want an end to this evil called Boko Haram, let them fish out the perpetrators; they know who they are and where they are, by keeping quiet, they are elongating their reign terror. 200 girls could not have vanished into thin air like that, we were not told they were flown out with private jets, they were driven out with trucks which passed through roads manned by gun holding policemen and soldiers with road blocks to boot, yet they passed through with the girls undetected.

This month, the city of Jos has been bombed thrice, they came and left with no hindrance and no harassment, they slipped through the network of heavy securities, all the stop and search by men of the security forces couldn’t detect them. And as usually life were lost, properties destroyed, blood of the innocents spilled.

Three final year medical students of the university of Jos, youths, workers, etc, died for no just reason other than that some misguided bigots are allowed to run amok among us.

THEY ESCAPED.

Amina Sawok and Thabita Welse, are two of the girls that escaped from the Boko Haram clutch. Prompted by survival instincts they jumped out and ran into the bush when the truck the insurgents were using to transport them broke down.

According to their story, the insurgents came to their school late in the night dressed in army uniform and ordered them to assemble in the dinner hall, from where they loaded them into a truck.

EVEN THE MOON BLEEDS FOR THE EVIL IN OUR LAND.

BRING OUR GIRLS BACK

 It started like any other ordinary day. They all woke up with plans and expectations for the day; they left their homes to the park to board buses and cars to different destination; some to work, and some to business.

 As usual, the park was bustling with activities; there was the clamour for passengers from drivers, the usual shouts of hawkers announcing their wares, buying and selling was going on in various places in and outside the park. Cars and buses was driving in and out.  Some others were eating breakfast in various food vendors’ outlet within the park.  Life was going on as usual, the people unaware of the angel of death lurking around.

Then an ear splitting explosion, for a split second, there was an eerily silence; then, pandemonium broke, and by the time the smoke of the bomb blast settled, there were human parts scattered all over the place, grotesque charred human remains were everywhere, the wounded and the maimed screamed and cried out in pain, but no immediate help was in the vicinity, the survivors were still dazed and helpless.

It was the scene of yet another bomb attack by the dreaded agent of destruction, The Boko Haram at Nyanya Park Abuja. They struck, leaving in their wake; tears, blood and sorrows. The carnage was so massive that darkness came at the break of day, the evil so thick that even the moon bleeds and blurs at night time.

 Again and again, they came, they kill, they destroy, and the people looked on hopelessly and the leaders watched helplessly. 

Still within the same week, the perpetrators struck yet again and slithered away with two hundred and thirty-four school girls for victory orgies. Again nothing was done, and the Chibok school girls yet to be found.

Let me ask,

 How many ears must our leaders have, before they can hear the cries of the people?

How many deaths will it take before they know that too many people have died?

The answer……