[b]Lest we are made to forget by Nigeria's media:

At the beginning, Boko Haram was usually reported by Nigeria's media as a group fighting to establish a country in Nigeria friendly with use of Islamic Sharia criminal laws.

Sharia criminal laws entail stoning adulterous women to death, death for blasphemy, cutting off hands of petty thieves; etc.
Sharia civil laws are legal in Nigeria's constitution, but sharia criminal laws are not.

----at the beginning, around 2000, then governor of Zamfara state, Sani Yerima, introduced the adoption of sharia criminal laws to the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria. The adoption spread like wild fire as other eleven northern states adopted sharia criminal laws to their legal systems, in addition to Nigeria's secular legal system.

----as the war for and against use of sharia criminal laws raged in northern Nigeria, a BBC female reporter asked Sani Yerima if he did not foresee a break-up of Nigeria within the next ten years because of sharia in the north. Yerima replied that it was not possible, and quickly added that north and south of Nigeria inter-married, but what separated the north and south of Nigeria were differences in value systems.

-- --shortly after the sharia conflict in the north, Boko Haram emerged and has remained consistent that it is fighting for a country friendly with use of sharia criminal justice system.

---- at one point in 2001, Nigeria's current President Buhari urged Muslims to ensure that use of sharia criminal laws were employed in all the states of Nigeria.

----- at one point in 2013, Buhari modified his sharia stance in an interview where he stated that any state legislature that votes to have sharia criminal laws to be employed in the state - that's it - use of sharia criminal laws becomes legal in the state.

But come to think of this: does one not expect fire in say, a state in the southwest zone of Nigeria whose legislature ever dabbles into a debate to legalize use of sharia criminal laws in the state, given the type of mixture of religious faiths in the southwest area?

Come to think of it again: how can one country under unitary government system make do with two criminal justice systems?


---- at one point during the last administration, Buhari was reported to have cautioned Nigeria's military brass that their fight against Boko Haram was like a fight against the north of Nigeria.


"What is Boko Haram?" - those were the words which Buhari used to dismiss Boko Haram and a foreign journalist who asked Buhari during the last presidential campaign how Buhari hoped to stop Boko Haram violence if elected president of Nigeria.

Finally, Buhari pledged before Nigeria's electorate to stop Boko Haram violence shortly after he becomes president. Not yet time to assess Buhari on that?

Observation: Many peace-loving Muslims in the north of Nigerian may abhor the way Boko Haram goes about its fight for a sharia-friendly country which it says it is fighting for; but then, millions among these peace-loving Nigerian Muslims seem to share with Boko Haram the same objective of having a Nigeria country governed with use of sharia criminal laws.

Many supposedly well-informed people from the southwest zone of Nigeria are usually upbeat, and sometimes exhilarated, over President Buhari's pledge to stop Boko Haram movement in Nigeria, who can explain why given the foregoing?







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Making senses

i am yet to grasp your point sha.

elijah2u:
i am yet to grasp your point sha.

The point? Why do some supposedly well-informed people from the southwest of Nigeria get excited with PMB's declaration to eradicate Boko Haram from Nigeria, given the fact that there are so many people, including Buhari, who want a Nigeria country governed with sharia criminal laws - Boko Haram also fights for a country governed with sharia criminal laws?