Chibok Girls’ Lives Must Not Be Wasted
Written by Gbemiga Olakunle
Nigerian Guardian
SIR: The social media report of the purported decision of the Chibok Girls’ parents to allow the Federal Government/Military use their abducted girls as sacrificial lambs if need be to end the Boko-Haram insurgence is unfortunate. We were still hoping to get a denial or a rebuttal of this news item before this reaction on the disturbing news allegedly credited to the parents of these innocent girls.
If the decision was borne out of the sense of national patriotism to use their girls as Martyrs to end the Boko-Haram insurgence, they are missing the point. And this may be as a result of their ignorance of the political web about Boko Haram and which also sustains it.
The nation would no doubt appreciate the offer being made by these parents. But it is a very dangerous one that can further compound the problems and the woes of this nation. It is a different ball game if there were some casualties on the part of these girls during their abduction, which the security agents might try to resist within a few hours of the abduction. It was widely reported that it even took the Presidency about two weeks to believe that the abduction of the girls was real.
Having settled down by force with their abductors/captors for more than four months, it will be foolhardy for the Federal Government or any of its agents to waste the lives of these innocent girls under the guise of trying to end the Boko Haram menace. The country may be invoking unnecessary curses on itself by any such move. When a land vomits its inhabitants, the people will be labouring under heavy Satanic yokes. Things will turn upside down for them and servants will be riding upon horses while the Princes are forced to trek bare-footed. Ultimately such action of a land that is polluted through shedding of innocent blood can lead to disintegration of such a country through plagues/diseases or self-inflicted war.
Boko-Haram is a creation of some of our politicians who are also sustaining it for their own selfish reasons. And so the political elite know what to do to kill the monster that they have created. All men and women of goodwill who love this nation must put their hands on the deck of the ship that is still drifting in the storming waters.
Above all, since no situation is above God’s power to redeem, we should continue to pray for the needed divine intervention in our national affairs in line with 2Chronicles 7:14. And especially those who are called by the name of the LORD according to Isaiah 62 should give Him no rest until Nigeria (our own Jerusalem) becomes a Praise in the land. This is God’s eternal counsel for this nation.
• Gbemiga Olakunle, JP
General Secretary, National Prayer Movement
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| Nigerian women demanding the release of the Chibok girl students. |
Nigerian Guardian
SIR: The social media report of the purported decision of the Chibok Girls’ parents to allow the Federal Government/Military use their abducted girls as sacrificial lambs if need be to end the Boko-Haram insurgence is unfortunate. We were still hoping to get a denial or a rebuttal of this news item before this reaction on the disturbing news allegedly credited to the parents of these innocent girls.
If the decision was borne out of the sense of national patriotism to use their girls as Martyrs to end the Boko-Haram insurgence, they are missing the point. And this may be as a result of their ignorance of the political web about Boko Haram and which also sustains it.
The nation would no doubt appreciate the offer being made by these parents. But it is a very dangerous one that can further compound the problems and the woes of this nation. It is a different ball game if there were some casualties on the part of these girls during their abduction, which the security agents might try to resist within a few hours of the abduction. It was widely reported that it even took the Presidency about two weeks to believe that the abduction of the girls was real.
Having settled down by force with their abductors/captors for more than four months, it will be foolhardy for the Federal Government or any of its agents to waste the lives of these innocent girls under the guise of trying to end the Boko Haram menace. The country may be invoking unnecessary curses on itself by any such move. When a land vomits its inhabitants, the people will be labouring under heavy Satanic yokes. Things will turn upside down for them and servants will be riding upon horses while the Princes are forced to trek bare-footed. Ultimately such action of a land that is polluted through shedding of innocent blood can lead to disintegration of such a country through plagues/diseases or self-inflicted war.
Boko-Haram is a creation of some of our politicians who are also sustaining it for their own selfish reasons. And so the political elite know what to do to kill the monster that they have created. All men and women of goodwill who love this nation must put their hands on the deck of the ship that is still drifting in the storming waters.
Above all, since no situation is above God’s power to redeem, we should continue to pray for the needed divine intervention in our national affairs in line with 2Chronicles 7:14. And especially those who are called by the name of the LORD according to Isaiah 62 should give Him no rest until Nigeria (our own Jerusalem) becomes a Praise in the land. This is God’s eternal counsel for this nation.
• Gbemiga Olakunle, JP
General Secretary, National Prayer Movement
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