LETTERS to the

Iwas appalled when I read on Thursday that Sharibu Nathan, the father of Leah Sharibu, the schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram in February, said people suspected to be robbers burgled their home. He said the family’s home in Dapchi, Yobe State, was attacked by robbers who looted some of their belongings. This to me is awful because the family has seen many troubles as their daughter remains in captivity. Why not release the innocent girl and leave the family alone? What did they expect to get from such a beleaguered family at this point, if not to add to their troubles?

In the real world situation, we find out that rolling billions into arms research, development and production, co-exist in the same society with protests against wars and armaments. Evidently, the intervention of the latter by no means drowns the development or even the escalation of the former. If this can be verified, of what concrete use will this campaign be as those who profit from wars are the ones who plot the very trajectory along which global public opinion is navigated? What makes every major global power what it is, besides industrialization, is the capacity to develop and deploy awe inspiring destructive systems. When society develops, normally, it does so holistically on multiple sectoral basis and given too that capitalism as a rule and as the only enduring system on global ideology, survives by investment and execution of wars on permanent basis, the idea of peace building itself is a reverse reality.