On saturday at 8 pm. The plan
Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim and Akin
Akintayo have been invited to
moderate a Q&A session with
Ahmad Salkida about Boko
Haram, its ideology, its
operations, the violent
onslaught and other difficult to
understand activities of the sect.
Boko Haram is crudely
translated to ‘Western Education
is forbidden’ and officially
known as Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna
Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad (People
Committed to the Prophet's
Teachings for Propagation and
Jihad).
To many of us, what Boko
Haram does is just purely
unfathomable madness, yet, I
would suggest that for
centuries we never understood
what madness was, what
caused it, why people were
affected and what impact it had
on people society would
suggest are mad.

Explaining the madness

With the development of
psychiatry and psychology, we
have a better understanding of
madness, or rather mental
illness and in some cases
medicine and therapy has
provided the means to manage
it and probably suppress the
very lunatic episodes.
With that thinking borne in
mind, I want to opine that
Ahmad Salkida who has written
extensively about Boko Haram is
like our psychiatrist, the expert
who can explain the madness
that appears to drive Boko
Haram and bring some
understanding to the issues
that hopefully would help us
contain and probably neutralise
the menacing and marauding
activities of Boko Haram.

Our frustrations

Going into the 7th month, the
Chibok Girls are still in captivity,
the #BringBackOurGirls
movement is unrelenting in
their protests, carnage has
destroyed life and property,
states have been under a State
of Emergency for over a year
and yet, Boko Haram seems to
run writ large on Nigerian
sovereign territory.
With every engagement with
the Nigerian armed forces, we
are left us none the wiser about
who is winning, who is losing,
what agreements have been
reached if a ceasefire exists and
whether there is any justice or
peace at the end of all this.
Ahmad Salkida will bring some
insight and hopefully some
enlightenment in this objective
forum, and this is something we
need within the turmoil of
confusion and uncertainty
about terrorism in Nigeria.
Thank you.

First hand information from a reputable journalist with contacts in bh.

A great opportunity to ask any question you have on bokoharam

Saturday 8 pm