Management and staff of Boko Haram,
It is with a heart full of sadness and pain that we
write to you today dated 2 December, 2014. We
are fully convinced that you will see, read, and
reflect over the content of this letter. I stand in
the gap for ALL Nigerian Women representing
every female baby, child, girl and adult. We could
as well pass for your mothers, sisters, wives and
daughters because we know for sure that you
have women in your individual lives.
It is a well known fact globally that woman bears
the brunt of violence and terrorism and this has
been the glaring case in Nigeria since you came
on the scene with your violent strategies that has
practically rendered our Northern States
incapacitated. We have suffered exorbitantly from
the venom of your anger and violence that we are
left in awe of what you really want from all these.
You have maimed, murdered, slaughtered and
killed our children, husbands and relations like
rams in the abattoirs. We have been thrown into
consistent mourning, weeping and gnashing of
teeth from the deep seated wounds you have
engraved in our hearts and in this moment of
despair we silently wish we had you aborted when
you came into our wombs as fetus.
We do not communicate this wish but that is how
we feel. Sure, if we had you aborted when we
received the test results of your pregnancies, we
would have had a society without Boko Haram.
How happy we were when we were told that we
were pregnant for you? We were so happy and
our joy knew no bounds when we announced your
presence to your fathers. We celebrated, danced
and made merry at your birth because we thought
we were blessed with male children who used to
be the pride of our nation. We were proud to be
called Uwar, Mama, and Iya - Shekau,
Mohammed, Sani, Murktar, Obere etc.
Today, the sadness in our Spirit has deleted the
happiness and curiosity we felt when we carried
you in our wombs for 9 months. We are even
deeply saddened when we see your age groups
who have made Nigeria proud by standing out in
the crowd like the shining amour. Now, you will
want to defend your actions by saying you were
not given equal grounds. You could even argue
that that is one reason why you are fighting, but
the truth is that they faced their own challenges
as well but refused to succumb to the dark
terrorism path which you have chosen.
You even said you are fighting for God but any
God who cannot fight for him/herself is definitely
not qualified to be God. The God we serve is
meant to fight for us not the other. How can you,
a mere mortal fight for an immortal God?
Your actions against us are far hurting than the
pain and labour of child birth. Remember, when
you kidnapped the CHIBOK girls? We went crazy,
many of us died imagining what our daughters
were going through in your hands. We walked the
streets of Nigeria calling for their release. Some
of us even walked naked with tears streaming
down our eyes but all fell on your deaf ears.
The whole world joined the campaign but mercy
did not touch your hearts to release the girls. We
can’t believe, we gave birth to you. Till today, the
girls left in your custody will continue to be the
memories of the carnage of your destruction
forever. You boldly told us that you have married
them off. Married them off to whom? Many of
them are already pregnant with your breeds that
definitely will carry on your nefarious acts.
Will you truly rejoice when those children are born
knowing you have sacrificed their lives in the altar
of darkness? How happy will you be when
someone else kidnap your children and marry
them off without your consent?
At will, you bombed the market places being fully
aware we are always at the markets struggling to
make a living for our children. You bombed the
schools at will being fully aware that our children
are there. At will you bombed the churches and
the mosques being fully aware that we are always
there praying for our families which includes you.
You have destroyed our homes and made us
refugees in our own country and we now live off
charities. The war you have declared on Nigeria is
actually war against WOMEN. What did we do to
deserve these?
What really is your intention? We know. Yes, you
thought that by declaring war against us that the
government will surrender to you? You are
absolutely wrong. Do you not see that irrespective
of your nefarious acts that the government hardly
pays attention other than send few words of
condolences to us? Do you not see that their
main preoccupation is their campaign for 2015
elections? Do you not see that their lives are filled
with luxury and numerous trips abroad? Do you
not know that their children are all away from
Nigeria? You see, you can never get their attention
by putting us through sleepless nights because
you are not priority to them at all.
We actually thought that the worst you could do
was the kidnap of the CHIBOK girls but alas! You
came along with another strategy – using women
and girls as suicide bombers! Using our
daughters to destroy us? Oh how evil can you
get? This is the final straw!
The only offence we committed against you is
giving birth to you. We wish we can turn back the
hand of time to when you were in our wombs, we
wouldn’t have thought twice about aborting you
regardless of what the law and religion say.
However we wish, we cannot change the time but
you can change because we know that deep down
your heart lies those cheerful and loving sons we
had and are proud of. It is time to sheath your
swords! It is time to label correctly and address
the issues of your grievances accordingly! It is
time you stop this violence against women! It is
the 16 days of activism! It is your time for
change!