GOVERNMENT’S
‘COMPLICITY’ IN NIGERIA TERRORISM
SUMMIT
ON TERRORISM AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA
AT
WASHINGTON DC JULY 13TH TO 5TH, 2020
ABSTRACT:
Doing
justice to this topic, requires the approach to solving a jig-saw puzzle. This
is so because the proofs are basically imbedded in subterfuge, overt and covert
actions. This is reminiscent of the statement made by Late General Sani Abacha,
Nigeria’s former Head of State, on the 17th November 1993 when he
said, “if insurgency lasts more than 24 hours, the government have a hand in
it”. Boko Haram insurgency have festered for more than 10 years now (2020) and
still ongoing. Also, General TY Danjuma former Chief of Army Staff and Defence
Minister of the Federal Government of Nigeria corroborated the above statement
on March 25th, 2018; he said inter-alia that, “the armed forces of
Nigeria are not neutral; they collude with the armed bandits, Nigerians should
defend themselves, else they will all die one by one”. Furthermore, General
(Dr) Olusegun Obasanjo Former Head of State and President Federal Republic of
Nigeria, said in a published statement available online and the print media,
dated 24th January 2018, inter-alia that, “the President Buhari’s
government is pursuing and executing Fulanisation and Islamisation Agenda
against the indigenous (Autochthonous) people of Nigeria”. Suffice to state
that, what is today known as terrorism in Nigeria, is a one-man inspired family-military
expedition ostensibly expressed as Islamic Jihad. According to Dr. Ibrahim A.
Modu and Dr. Yakubu Tahir Maigari: the Uthman Danfodio’s Jihad of 1804 was seen
by the Fulani, as a political movement, to establish themselves as the Masters
of Hausa land; indeed, the social and political texture of present-day Nigeria
has continue to be conditioned by the consequences of the Jihad viz:-