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Godwin Ndubuisi Aleke
 godwin.aleke@googlemail.com
 Apapa Lagos
Nigeria

 

 

What Does Boko Haram want?
by Godwin Ndubuisi Aleke

I predict that the terrorist of Niger Delta, the Jonathan’s Presidency and the Boko Haram’s of Niger Delta are all lined up as a strategy by the Western powers to break up Nigeria solely for their economic interest. I also postulate that they are presently having difficulties in achieving that because as usual, Nigeria is a difficult ground to deal with. We hardly follow the western models. Yes, they can create Somalia, Liberia or Congo- Zaire out of us, but the cost will be too high both for them and our people.

I have refused to say much on Boko Haram because it is a risky venture. I honestly do not have the whole facts of the matter. I do not know the immediate sponsors of Boko Haram, but I am 90% certain of its distance sponsors. However, the difficulty is that even the Nigerian state may lack the capabilities to unravel these distance sponsors, or as Wikileaks have proved to us, top members of the government of Nigeria may have been compromised into working in cohort with Boko Haram to achieve the determined aim.
 

I am compelled to put this in writing because a cousin of mine sought to know what Boko Haram signposts. I assume my friends and younger ones deserve to know my takes on Boko Haram. We, also as both the final tools and the victims of the long term effects of Boko Haram, must start to prepare for the D-day. When the game is up, we might find ourselves in a war field fighting a cause we neither initiated nor understood. Like the civil war of old, grounds are being created to massacre the people of our land for no cause. What is at stake is neither the interest of any group in Nigeria. What is at stake is the interest of a distance sponsor – global powers – that saw us as a pawn in the economic chess game.

I am not afraid of wars. Our lives as Africans are everyday war. What I refuse is a dumb war or a war created out of greed. Every man will proudly go into war to defend his life, his nation or a cause he believes in; but no intelligent man will either fight another man’s war or allow himself to be manipulated into fighting against his own interest.

We all know of the Nigeria civil war. We also have taken sides on the war believing whichever lies were convenient to us, depending on our tribes; but the truth is that the war was a dump war on both sides. The Nigerian people were lead to kill and maim one another for interest that is not theirs. The mess in our country today is a creation of the interest that drove the war. My dad was an old Bafrian soldier, I cannot take this platform to insult him; yet I am convinced that he was manipulated by Ojukwu as much as those on the Nigeria side who were manipulated by the triangular interest that drove the Nigerian side. Every casual observer should be able to know these interests.

If those on the Nigerian side truly won the civil war, the benefits would have been there for every body to see. If there was “no victor no vanquish” as they proclaimed, we would have had a perfect country that protects the interests of the masses of this country. Neither of these, do we have; rather we have a country that serves the interest of foreign super powers and their conglomerates with that of few cabals. They are the real beneficiaries of the civil war. They were the interests that created and manipulated the civil war. I know it will hurt my Igbo brothers, including my father who spent the last days of the war as a prisoner of war in Kirikiri prison, if I pronounce that Ojukwu‘s Biafra was also of the same making. My message is that we as Nigerians must be prepared to reject a war that is not for our interest. We must reject the present manipulations of the day.

The Western Economy is presently in the doldrums, though not as desperate as ours. They are used to a better life and cannot afford any thing less. Their politicians will pay a heavy price of losing their offices if they do not act quickly. Their people will loose the present comforts.

Their strategists know very well that the global economic equations are shifting against them in favour of the East. As humans, they must do their possible best to revert us back to the status quo, but I postulate that they must fail. The intervention to stop Abacha in 1996 among several others in other parts of the world was part of this agenda; yet the booms of the eastern economies have continued. You may only delay natural cycle, but cannot stop it. Empires must rise and fall; it is a national law. The ingredients that drive these are inbuilt in our persons. The motivations that create empires also destroy them. So long as humans are involved, the cycle must continue.

As early as 2002, I became aware of the strategy to take hold of African oil (that of Angola, Sudan and Nigerian). Today I see that of Angola and Sudan well achieved. I see Libya also falling in line as part of the game. I see what happened in Ivory Coast as another of those games to keep the Africa economy within the control of the present day powers.

I am also aware that some in America predicted that Nigeria will break up before 2015 since 1999. I know that such predictions were made against Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and USSR which have all come to pass. I am aware that the elements that made those predictions played active roles in helping to dissolve those entities. I am not unaware that they were all driven by economic interest of nations over others.

I predict that the terrorist of Niger Delta, the Jonathan’s Presidency and the Boko Haram’s of Norther Nigeria are all lined up as a strategy by the Western powers to break up Nigeria solely for their economic interest. I also postulate that they are presently having difficulties in achieving that because as usual, Nigeria is a difficult ground to deal with. We hardly follow the western models. Yes, they can create Somalia, Liberia or Congo- Zaire out of us, but the cost will be too high both for them and our people.

My postulations are arrived at after answering these questions: Who armed the terrorist of Niger Delta? Why did Henry Okah given a free hand to buy several sorts of weapons until he bargains of a certain one? Why did America play active role in the Jonathan’s Presidency even when they know of his limitations? Why will persons from the North sponsor Boko Haram knowing fully well that the long term effect is a break up of the country, even when they are aware that the break up will be at the disadvantage of the north? Why will the UN building become a target for Boko Haram even when we all know of the neutrality that UN represents? Why did America make their Prediction a public notice? What is their easiest path of taking control of Nigerian oil? Why is Jonathan not supporting other African countries in denouncing the NTC and their tribal motivated forceful take over in Libya? Like the African diplomats asked in the Libyan forceful takeover, who is next after Ivory Coast and Libya? What options does the West have in dealing with the Northern Nigerian intellectuals who are rising in their numbers and are fiercely anti western? The Western strategists are fully aware of this and know the impact on their economics interest in the country. The reversal of Soludo’s “dollarisation” of Naira by Yar’adua and Sanusi Lamido’s economic ideology is a strong pointer to this.

The only way to take long term control of Nigeria oil is to take the north out of the equation. Or better still also take away the Yorubas and the Igbos leaving only the Niger Deltas who can be easily managed like they have done in Saudi Arabia given large oil per capital ratio.

Today as part of the Nigerian dumb leadership’s action to contain Boko Haram, FBI have been given access to our national facilities with the risk of having secret CIA members as part of their team; making the task of achieving their interest a lot easier. For these purpose, the UN building as a target was an asset. For this, Boko Haram was made to see the building as a positive target that it is not.

Ours is a trap between the devil and the deep sea. We are trapped in a game between our dumb impostors as leaders and smart neo-colonial exploiters that lack capacity to respect the dignity of the Blackman’s live when financial gains are at stake – as has been shown times without numbers from the days of slavery, the numerous wars they created in Africa, the ravaging poverty in Africa as a consequence of their economic domination and manipulations, to the present thousands killed in taking over the Libyan oil.

But the God that preserved our lives and lineages four hundred years ago by making our land the Whiteman’s grave with malaria unlike that of the American natives, is not asleep. Ours is just to be alert. We will win.

 

 

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