Posted on: 05:44 Sun, 29 Nov 2015



”Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko
Haram, additional 34 soldiers were
killed two days ago but it wasn’t in the
news”- Deji Adeyanju.

I concur with Mr. Deji Adeyanju. The
most heartless and reprehensible
thing that our government could
have done is to cover-up the fact that
105 of our soldiers were killed by
Boko Haram a few days ago. To do
such a thing is simply evil.

A soldier ought to be honored in
death and this is especially so if he
dies in the course of doing his duty
and fighting for his nation.

The government has not only
dishonored them by not
acknowledging their sacrifice but
they have also buried them in the
wilderness like rabid dogs.

This is wickedness of the highest
order and President Buhari, his Chief
of Army Staff and his Minister of
Defense should bury their heads in
shame.

Anyone that buys the lie and
propaganda that the 105 soldiers
never died and that they are still
alive is a compound fool or village
idiot.

Will the military also deny the fact
that a few days ago 34 of our soldiers
were killed by Boko Haram? These
boys died for their country. Why
deny them?

I am outraged by the fact that a
soldier will sacrifice his life for his
country yet the citizens and
authorities of that country don’t
even appreciate it.

Pictures of the dead bodies were
posted on social media. Everyone in
the military knows that those
soldiers are dead. It is an open
secret. Yet because government
denies it so many people just choose
to believe them.

The truth is that Boko Haram must
have used chemical weapons in the
attack.When you look at the pictures
of the dead bodies this is obvious. It
was probably mustard gas.

All we want from the military is the
truth. If 105 soldiers were not killed
then how many actually were?
The whole episode happened last
week in Borno state and the military
authorities are denying it. I am
sickened by that.

If others cannot appreciate the
importance of honoring our dead
soldiers, I can. I will not be
intimidated and I will not remain
silent.

Tell us where our boys are buried
and if you refuse to do so we will
keep asking. There must be
accountability and respect for those
that have made the supreme sacrifice
just to keep the rest of us safe. Our
soldiers deserve that much.

Finally let it be said loud and clear
that since President Buhari came to
power he has not bought one bullet
for the military. Considering the fact
that we are in the middle of a
protracted and very bloody war I
believe that this is utterly shameful.

If you say you want to fight and
defeat Boko Haram then why are you
not buying arms for your troops?
This brings me to other matters and
raises other questions about our
President’s sincerity of purposes and
commitment.

You say that you are fighting Boko
Haram yet you are travelling the
world drinking tea with world
leaders whilst your soldiers are
secretly being slaughtered.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram
yet you were nominated as their
spokesman and chief negotiator 2
years ago in proposed peace talks
with the Federal Government.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram
but the man you appointed as your
National Security Adviser was
retired from the army a few years
ago for ordering the release of Boko
Haram terrorists under suspicious
circumstances.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram
but the first thing you did when u
came to power was to remove
military checkpoints.This guaranteed
Boko Haram free movement and
access to the entire country.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram
yet last year you told the world that
an attack on Boko Haram is an
attack on the north.

You say you are fighting terror yet
since you came to power Boko
Haram has grown in strength, has
regained lost territory and has been
declared the ”worlds number one
most deadly terror group” by the
Global Terror Index.

You say you are fighting terror yet
since you came to power Nigeria,
according to the Global Terror Index,
has been declared as not just having
”the first most deadly terror group in
the world” which is Boko Haram but
also of having ”the fourth most
deadly terror group in the world”
which is a group that the Index
describe as the ”Fulani militants”
and that we call the Fulani
herdsmen.

You say you are fighting Boko Haram
yet since you came to power Nigeria
has been declared the world’s ”third
most terrorised country” by the
Global Terror Index after Iraq and
Afghanistan which were declared
first and second respectively whilst
Syria and Pakistan were declared
fourth and fifth.

You say you are a ”born again
democrat” yet you voted against the
protection of human rights at the
United Nations alongside Iran,
Zimbabwe and North Korea.

You say you respect human rights yet
you barricade Colonel Sambo Dasuki,
the former National Security
Adviser, in his home, endanger his
life, deny him medical attention,
flout court orders and make him
critically ill.

You say you respect human rights yet
you arrest Governor Boni Haruna
simply for standing as surety for
Dasuki and you try to force him to
abandon his friend.

You say you respect human rights yet
you raid Governor Attahiru
Bafarawa’s home and arrest and
detain his son simply because he is
friends with Dasuki.

You say you respect freedom of
speech and human rights yet you
lock up Nnamdi Kanu indefinitely
and your security agents shoot two
unarmed and harmless pro-Biafra
youths to death in Enugu simply
because they were involved in a
peaceful demonstration.

You say that you are a believer in the
rule of law yet you ordered your
secret police to storm a sitting
governors official home in Akwa
Ibom knowing that he enjoys
immunity from such matters.

You say you love Nigeria yet a bomb
goes off in Kano killing over 21
people and instead of coming back
home to mourn with your people you
continue junketing around the world.

You say you know how to run
Nigeria but according to Paul
Wallace and Michael Cohen of the
United States magazine known as
Bloomberg Business your ”bounce
has become bust”, your ”policies irk
investors”, you have ”destroyed
Nigeria’s economy” and you ”do not
have the capacity to move the
country forward”.

You say that you know how to
manage the economy yet stocks and
shares have crashed, small
businesses are folding up, our
foreign currency has dried up,
industries are collapsing, agricultural
output has decreased, our foreign
reserves have been spent and the
value of the naira has depreciated
since you came to power and it
continues to fall.

You say you know what you are
doing and how to manage Nigeria’s
affairs yet the U.S,-based
Washington Times newspaper says
that you lied to America about your
so-called good intentions for Nigeria
and that you have ”duped the United
States of America” with your false
promises and empty words.

You say that you are fighting poverty
yet according to the Business Day
Newspaper Nigerians are ”getting
poorer for the first time since 1999”.

You say that you will restore our
countries fortunes yet the fuel
queues are back and the prices of
food, transport and basic
commodities are soaring by the day.

You say that you are a man of your
word and after you were declared
winner of the election you promised
not to malign, persecute, witchunt,
demonize, disrespect or go after
President Goodluck Jonathan and
members of his administration
unless you had concrete evidence of
wrongdoing yet when you came to
power you did precisely that.

You say you are fair-minded, true to
your friends, loyal to your
supporters and always reasonable
yet you did not concede even one
ministerial slot or approve one
ministerial nominee of the two men
that helped you more than any
others to win the presidential
election, namely President Olusegun
Obasanjo and Governor Bola Tinubu.

You say that you want the country to
change, that you believe in fairness
and equity, that you are a
progressive, that you believe in a
generational powershift and that you
want the country to move forward
yet you are trying to destroy Bukola
Saraki simply because he won an
election and became Senate
President.

You say that you are fighting
corruption yet no-one has been
made to face the music or brought to
book over the 25 billion naira
REMITA and Systemspecs scandal
and neither has the matter been
clarified or resolved even though it
has been established that the whole
deal was struck under your watch.

You say you love Nigeria and all
Nigerians yet your Fulani kinsmen,
under the guise of herding cattle, are
slaughtering thousands of innocent
people all over the south and Middle
Belt, yet you remain their Grand
Patron and you refuse to utter to a
word of condemnation for their
actions.

You say you respect Nigerians yet
every time you travel out of the
country you spend your time telling
foreigners and the foreign media
how useless, rotten and corrupt your
people are and how you are the only
saint in Nigeria.

In view of all this I am constrained
to ask whether President
Muhammadu Buhari has a
conscience or is it that he has just
lost touch with reality? Everything
that I said about him during the
Presidential campaign has been
confirmed and in just six months he
has betrayed the trust and
squandered the goodwill that the
Nigerian people bestowed upon him
in the March presidential elections. I
have to say that I am not surprised
by this because his ”change” mantra
was just an illusion.

What he and his APC failed to
disclose to the Nigerian people
during the campaign is that what he
meant by ”change” was a change
from light to darkness. Sadly our
people trusted him and now he has
plunged our nation into that
darkness.

May God enable him to find the
courage to retrace his steps before it
is too late and may the Lord deliver
Nigeria from those that are around
him that fail to tell him the truth.

I gather that they call those of us that
oppose President Buhari and that are
PDP supporters the ”wailing
wailers”. That is an interesting
expression because by the time
Buhari finishes with Nigeria I have
little doubt that the entire country
will be wailing.

The truth is that I would rather be a
”wailing wailer” that posterity
vindicates than a ”lying liar” or a
”howling howler” who has lost his
way and who continues to have
confidence in a man like Buhari and
a party like the APC that is hell bent
on destroying our country and our
cherished democratic institutions
with their Rambo-like insensitivity
and total ineptitude.

All those ”lying liars” and ”howling
howlers” that voted for President
Buhari should clap for themselves for
the terrible mess our country is now
in. We will remember them in our
prayers too.

Femi Fani-Kayode was former
Aviation Minister.

Source:- Vanguard