HAVE WE FORGOTTEN LEAH SHARIBU?

Nigerians are living in a cocoon of self-deceptive and falsely-assured security all at our own peril. When we should do reality check we just wish painful realities away and pretend all is well, especially if it is just “a few people” who are so deprived of their humanity as to put our collective humanity into question. In this respect, the Christians of Nigeria, me too, are guilty, very guilty. All these while the Boko Haram interlocutor known as Ahmed Sakilda has been trying to get the Nigerian government and well, Christian pressure groups I presume, to hearken to some conditions put forth by Boko Haram but no one listened to him. Boko Haram responds to this snub of its middle man by abducting aid workers (and continually decimating the ranks of our infantry fighting forces in the Northeast predominantly made up of young Christian soldiers): Boko Haram then proceeds to do unimaginable things to these abducted aid workers whilst openly decreeing that the Christian female captives amongst them have been turned into perpetual slaves; what we understand is that the fate of Alice mirrors the fate of other captive Christian girls (Leah Sharibu, especially) in Boko Haram custody. Yet the Christian community in Nigeria ignore this reality and join the ranks of taqiyya-influenced Muslim PR elements to dismiss Boko Haram as “non-Muslims;” this designation is as far from the truth as one can imagine. Every index of its modus operandi indicates that Boko Haram is a revivalist movement devoted to the practice of Islam in its true or “raw” format un-influenced by Westernisation in any shade. Thus, abducting Christian maidens and keeping them in servitude as sex slaves is one of those stipulated “true” practices; others like banishing Christians from predominantly Muslim climes can be cited here. Given these facts, does it not hurt the heart of the sincere Christian each time Yemi Osinbajo blurts out that “it is well with Nigeria?” How well has Nigerian Christians fared? Muhammadu Buhari and his ilk should begin to talk to this Ahmed Sakilda pronto.