phreakabit:

Always doubted your intellectual credibility. The quote from your post above, just proves my[b] initial[/b] skepticism/ doubts about how intelligent you are, where not wrong.
You call planting bombs in relaxation/recreational centers human rights?

ocelot2006:

@ poster, boko haram and MEND are both terror groups. The only difference is that the former has adopted other deadly tactics like the use of IEDs, VBIEDs, and suicide bombers. Still both are responsible for the murder of a lot of civilians and law enforcement officers (including my own uncle in PH). So yeah, they're both terror groups that must be neutralized.

I can't understand a single thing from the rubbish you wrote here.See why i think you are stuupid not to know the difference between morality and human rights ? What law has boko haram broken if they decide not to tolerate western education ? It's just like crucifying the chinese or cubans for communism.people  have the rights to chose how they live their lives but I will only get mad if boko harms force their ideologies on southerners that chose a liberal way of live.under democray,you have the right to follow the opposite view and if that is what boko haram choose for themselves,so be it afterall the tendencies have been there even before amalgamation.

phreakabit:

Always doubted your intellectual credibility. The quote from your post above, just proves my[b] initial[/b] skepticism/ doubts about how intelligent you are, where not wrong.
You call planting bombs in relaxation/recreational centers human rights?

jamace:



What right are you talking about here? Have they not been allowed to practice sharia in their states? As I am typing here, over 10 northern states are already practicing sharia. I am yet to see the positive effect of sharia in those states. At times I wonder whether the initial clamour for sharia legal system in Nigeria was to cause trouble if denied.  The so-call sharia practice does not reflect in their lives. Or is the bombing all over the North the dividends? Boko Haram is just a troublesome religious sect, out to cause confusion and discredit the govt of the day. Boko Haram has no economic, political or social importance to the country. They are just a bunch of religious drunks misbehaving in broad day light. The fed govt should deal decisively with them.

ocelot2006:

@ Olumide, apparently you never lived in PH during the crisis. MEND's nefarious activities weren't restricted to the creeks or against oil installations. It was WAY MORE than that. They were involved in kidnapping, armed robberies, assault on Police offices and the govt I institutions, daylight harrassment and murder of innocent civilians, destruction of law enforcement offices using explosives and murder of a lot of police men and soldiers, and violation. Oh did I mention oil bunkering, piracy, and arms smuggling? They made the niger-delta, and PH in particular, so inhospitable and unsafe that in 2007 PH residents were actually calling for direct military action against MEND. Thank God for the JTF, else we wouldve still been living in terror.

ocelot2006:

@ Olumide, apparently you never lived in PH during the crisis. MEND's nefarious activities weren't restricted to the creeks or against oil installations. It was WAY MORE than that. They were involved in kidnapping, armed robberies, assault on Police offices and the govt I institutions, daylight harrassment and murder of innocent civilians, destruction of law enforcement offices using explosives and murder of a lot of police men and soldiers, and violation. Oh did I mention oil bunkering, piracy, and arms smuggling? They made the niger-delta, and PH in particular, so inhospitable and unsafe that in 2007 PH residents were actually calling for direct military action against MEND. Thank God for the JTF, else we wouldve still been living in terror.

~Bluetooth:

Do you know how many Nigerians,british,Americans and other nationalities have died in the hands of Mend ? See let me tell you something,Mend crisis can only be subdued for a period of time,it will resuscitate in the nearest future and so is boko haram crisis will be because the conservatism of the northerners is their way of life that can't be surpressed.This problem has been around for centuries so I don't know why y'all are killing yourselves over it.
Sometimes i wish we can just split this country so that the northerners can go their own but in as much as we still remain one,all we need is the peace that can keep us in one piece.there are fundamental issues that need to be addressed before boko haram issue can be decisively dealt with and these are issues that have spanned since the pre-colonial eras.

ocelot2006:

@ Olumide, apparently you never lived in PH during the crisis. MEND's nefarious activities weren't restricted to the creeks or against oil installations. It was WAY MORE than that. They were involved in kidnapping, armed robberies, assault on Police offices and the govt I institutions, daylight harrassment and murder of innocent civilians, destruction of law enforcement offices using explosives and murder of a lot of police men and soldiers, and violation. Oh did I mention oil bunkering, piracy, and arms smuggling? They made the niger-delta, and PH in particular, so inhospitable and unsafe that in 2007 PH residents were actually calling for direct military action against MEND. Thank God for the JTF, else we wouldve still been living in terror.

0lumide:

I seriously hate this guy now!!

Please how many British/Americans has mend killed?

Thly Nigerians killed were caught in battle between MEND and JTF,


I don't like you Bluetooth!! You hvae lost a whole lot of dignity in this forum!! Even though i wish Nigeria could be one as I wish one day there will be a road I can cruise all the way from down south to up north as a freedom ride in my homeland!

But that is only in my fantasy it is not the reality we are constantly dealing with!! The problem of MEND started with the cheating of a section of Nigeria by Nigerians. MEND and Niger Deltans are mad at everybody!! I have been there and I can honestly say in times of war if I'm a soldier, I won't pick up a gun against any MEND militant! How can a people with so much get so little? Forget what their states get in allocation. Even federal programs and amenities funded by the FG were almost absent compared to other parts of the nation!! Yet all they ask for is to be able to control their resources or we all leave it alone underground!!


I used to think you were the only southern Muslim I could actually have an arguement with and you'll will never drop objectivity no matter wot!! You made a comment once about Buhari that was critical while other southern Muslims were just being block heads and I thought this guy is objective and has a good book. But then I figured you can't judge a book by it's cover!!! Bye bye mehn!! You are just like the rest of em!!


Oh please! I was in Woji when all those happened and that wasn't MEND!! MEND officially denied having anything to do with those people or all those claiming to be militants and going to get amnesty money! Those were cultists mad that the government didn't pay the amnesty money!! Mehn i visit Nigeria every year since I was 18 and able to travel on my own!! When I finished philosophy, I went back to Nigeria to serve in PH at rhythm 93.7 (i was working on lines for commercials etc.),  Seriously I was there when it all happened and those weren't MEND!! BOKO HARAM will claim such atrocity but MEND denied them. Why would they do that to the people they are fighting for said those weren't militants at all but those eager to get amnesty money!! Not like I'm that gullible but from a logical point of view, it made sense because MEND first denied any of their soldiers going for amnesty but as soon as the government didn't pay, the cultists and street gangs pretending to be MEND all went at it!!

0lumide:

I seriously hate this guy now!!

Please how many British/Americans has mend killed?

The only Nigerians killed were caught in battle between MEND and JTF,


I don't like you Bluetooth!! You hvae lost a whole lot of dignity in this forum!! Even though i wish Nigeria could be one as I wish one day there will be a road I can cruise all the way from down south to up north as a freedom ride in my homeland!

But that is only in my fantasy it is not the reality we are constantly dealing with!! The problem of MEND started with the cheating of a section of Nigeria by Nigerians. MEND and Niger Deltans are mad at everybody!! I have been there and I can honestly say in times of war if I'm a soldier, I won't pick up a gun against any MEND militant! How can a people with so much get so little? Forget what their states get in allocation. Even federal programs and amenities funded by the FG were almost absent compared to other parts of the nation!! Yet all they ask for is to be able to control their resources or we all leave it alone underground!!


I used to think you were the only southern Muslim I could actually have an arguement with and you'll will never drop objectivity no matter wot!! You made a comment once about Buhari that was critical while other southern Muslims were just being block heads and I thought this guy is objective and has a good book. But then I figured you can't judge a book by it's cover!!! Bye bye mehn!! You are just like the rest of em!!


Oh please! I was in Woji when all those happened and that wasn't MEND!! MEND officially denied having anything to do with those people or all those claiming to be militants and going to get amnesty money! Those were cultists mad that the government didn't pay the amnesty money!! Mehn i visit Nigeria every year since I was 18 and able to travel on my own!! When I finished philosophy, I went back to Nigeria to serve in PH at rhythm 93.7 (i was working on lines for commercials etc.),  Seriously I was there when it all happened and those weren't MEND!! BOKO HARAM will claim such atrocity but MEND denied them. Why would they do that to the people they are fighting for said those weren't militants at all but those eager to get amnesty money!! Not like I'm that gullible but from a logical point of view, it made sense because MEND first denied any of their soldiers going for amnesty but as soon as the government didn't pay, the cultists and street gangs pretending to be MEND all went at it!!

0lumide:

I seriously hate this guy now!!

Please how many British/Americans has mend killed?

Thly Nigerians killed were caught in battle between MEND and JTF,


I don't like you Bluetooth!! You hvae lost a whole lot of dignity in this forum!! Even though i wish Nigeria could be one as I wish one day there will be a road I can cruise all the way from down south to up north as a freedom ride in my homeland!

But that is only in my fantasy it is not the reality we are constantly dealing with!! The problem of MEND started with the cheating of a section of Nigeria by Nigerians. MEND and Niger Deltans are mad at everybody!! I have been there and I can honestly say in times of war if I'm a soldier, I won't pick up a gun against any MEND militant! How can a people with so much get so little? Forget what their states get in allocation. Even federal programs and amenities funded by the FG were almost absent compared to other parts of the nation!! Yet all they ask for is to be able to control their resources or we all leave it alone underground!!


I used to think you were the only southern Muslim I could actually have an arguement with and you'll will never drop objectivity no matter wot!! You made a comment once about Buhari that was critical while other southern Muslims were just being block heads and I thought this guy is objective and has a good book. But then I figured you can't judge a book by it's cover!!! Bye bye mehn!! You are just like the rest of em!!


Oh please! I was in Woji when all those happened and that wasn't MEND!! MEND officially denied having anything to do with those people or all those claiming to be militants and going to get amnesty money! Those were cultists mad that the government didn't pay the amnesty money!! Mehn i visit Nigeria every year since I was 18 and able to travel on my own!! When I finished philosophy, I went back to Nigeria to serve in PH at rhythm 93.7 (i was working on lines for commercials etc.),  Seriously I was there when it all happened and those weren't MEND!! BOKO HARAM will claim such atrocity but MEND denied them. Why would they do that to the people they are fighting for said those weren't militants at all but those eager to get amnesty money!! Not like I'm that gullible but from a logical point of view, it made sense because MEND first denied any of their soldiers going for amnesty but as soon as the government didn't pay, the cultists and street gangs pretending to be MEND all went at it!!

0lumide:

I seriously hate this guy now!!

Please how many British/Americans has mend killed?

The only Nigerians killed were caught in battle between MEND and JTF,


I don't like you Bluetooth!! You hvae lost a whole lot of dignity in this forum!! Even though i wish Nigeria could be one as I wish one day there will be a road I can cruise all the way from down south to up north as a freedom ride in my homeland!

But that is only in my fantasy it is not the reality we are constantly dealing with!! The problem of MEND started with the cheating of a section of Nigeria by Nigerians. MEND and Niger Deltans are mad at everybody!! I have been there and I can honestly say in times of war if I'm a soldier, I won't pick up a gun against any MEND militant! How can a people with so much get so little? Forget what their states get in allocation. Even federal programs and amenities funded by the FG were almost absent compared to other parts of the nation!! Yet all they ask for is to be able to control their resources or we all leave it alone underground!!


I used to think you were the only southern Muslim I could actually have an arguement with and you'll will never drop objectivity no matter wot!! You made a comment once about Buhari that was critical while other southern Muslims were just being block heads and I thought this guy is objective and has a good book. But then I figured you can't judge a book by it's cover!!! Bye bye mehn!! You are just like the rest of em!!


Oh please! I was in Woji when all those happened and that wasn't MEND!! MEND officially denied having anything to do with those people or all those claiming to be militants and going to get amnesty money! Those were cultists mad that the government didn't pay the amnesty money!! Mehn i visit Nigeria every year since I was 18 and able to travel on my own!! When I finished philosophy, I went back to Nigeria to serve in PH at rhythm 93.7 (i was working on lines for commercials etc.),  Seriously I was there when it all happened and those weren't MEND!! BOKO HARAM will claim such atrocity but MEND denied them. Why would they do that to the people they are fighting for said those weren't militants at all but those eager to get amnesty money!! Not like I'm that gullible but from a logical point of view, it made sense because MEND first denied any of their soldiers going for amnesty but as soon as the government didn't pay, the cultists and street gangs pretending to be MEND all went at it!!

~Bluetooth:

let me tell you something,I don't discuss issues on religion basis because people get emotional when it comes to religion.You metioned the other time when boko haram said muslims are potential targets because they are mingling with christains nd I'm sure you will expect all muslims  to follow that because some fctards said it and they must follow it.My paternal family are muslims while my maternal family are christains and I have never had any cause to discriminate against any of them based on what they believe in.
The problem was never about is islam but a bunch of iddiots that think they can achieve their political goals by using the religion to achieve what they desire.To me,Buhari remains a terrorist in as much as he financed crisis and so is boko haram but trying to say MEND is better than boko haram is what I disagree with.they are both social problems in my dictionary.ey are both social problems in my dictionary.















haram but trying to say MEND is better than boko haram is what I disagree with.they are both social problems in my dictionary.ey are both social problems in my dictionary.

0lumide:

I never said MEND is a group of angels! but they are not in the same league as Boko haram at all because Nigeria can compromise for MEND's purpose because it can be constitutionally accomodated and that Boko Haram can never be politically attained though they have the right to start a political party but who will vote for a president/rep/senator etc, that is against education? (I will if I was still a kid and just wanna watch Naruto and play game all day lol),  The difference between them is clear but they employed same tactics with one more extreme than the other,

fxtopedia:

[center]MEND=BOKO HARAM [/center]

All your excuses are paltry to exonerate MEND from being same with BOKO-HARAM.
The similarities includes:

Mend killed , Boko Haram Killed
Mend caused people sorrow Boko Haram caused people sorrow
Mend is a cancer to the nation Boko Haram is a cancer to the nation
Mend is a disgrace to Nigeria Boko Haram is a disgrace to Nigeria
Mend are bunch of slow people Boko Haram are bunch of slow people
Mend and Boko Haram had turned many a wonan into widowhood  

PS: A reasonable being will not support any ACT of violence.  

~Bluetooth:

But does that change anything ? What is the difference between Manslaughter and Murder  when the victims of both crime are lying in the morgue ? Mend killed,boko haram is also killing. . .killing is killing either by bomb,SMG,otapiapia,electrocution,food poisioning etc.

phreakabit:

Dude, I have family in PH. Those activities where not perpetrated by MEND alone! Ever heard about those street gangs they have over there?

Bensonite:

Good.
I can give a full day lecture on MEND and other militant activities in the ND but time. I will leave it for another day. The term MEND only came into existence after Asari Dokubo was arrested in 2005 by the Nigeria state  and charged for treasonable felony. Prior to formation of MEND there were severall street cult gangs and militants outfits operating mainly in Port Harcourt and the creeks of ND. Asari Dokubo led a group simply address as voluteer force(NDPVF) that waged war against Ateke Tom Niger Delta Vigilante(Iceland cult) over supremacy and maily linked to oil bunkering activities. Asari continued provoked utternaces against the Nigeria goverment led to OBJ calling for his arrest. In protesting for Asari arrest, several militant group which hitherto where fighting for resource control came together to form MEND in a village close to Amassoma in Bayelsa State- mind you most of the people at the formation stage where learned hence the name Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta.
Upon formation of MEND they commence with kidnapping of foreign workers in the creeks hoping to use that to negotiate for Asari release but to no avail. This is what later degenerated to the series of kidnapping demand for ramsone and attacks on oil facilities intensifying. Although Asari was released shortly after Late Yar Adua took his oath of office, kidnapping had successfully been hijacked by criminals as a stable business that pays well. Original agitators continued their attack on oil facilities and reduced civilian casuaties as much as they can. It was always a battle between JTF and Tompolo group or JTF vs Ateke, etc. At several times the various groups fight themselves when boundaries are crossed hence making the job easier for JTF.
Whereas the agitations has brought about increased funding in NDDC, creation of Niger Delta Ministry, more attention to ND indigenes in recent recruitment/scholarship, etc. Although I personally condem some of the activities of the militants of ND, BOKO HARAM cannot be compared to them. Boko haram SHOULD TELL THEIR PEOPLE WHAT THEY STAND TO BENEFIT IF NOT FOR THE FOOLISH 72 VIRGINS.

Bensonite:

Good.
I can give a full day lecture on MEND and other militant activities in the ND but time. I will leave it for another day. The term MEND only came into existence after Asari Dokubo was arrested in 2005 by the Nigeria state  and charged for treasonable felony. Prior to formation of MEND there were severall street cult gangs and militants outfits operating mainly in Port Harcourt and the creeks of ND. Asari Dokubo led a group simply address as voluteer force(NDPVF) that waged war against Ateke Tom Niger Delta Vigilante(Iceland cult) over supremacy and maily linked to oil bunkering activities. Asari continued provoked utternaces against the Nigeria goverment led to OBJ calling for his arrest. In protesting for Asari arrest, several militant group which hitherto where fighting for resource control came together to form MEND in a village close to Amassoma in Bayelsa State- mind you most of the people at the formation stage where learned hence the name Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta.
Upon formation of MEND they commence with kidnapping of foreign workers in the creeks hoping to use that to negotiate for Asari release but to no avail. This is what later degenerated to the series of kidnapping demand for ramsone and attacks on oil facilities intensifying. Although Asari was released shortly after Late Yar Adua took his oath of office, kidnapping had successfully been hijacked by criminals as a stable business that pays well. Original agitators continued their attack on oil facilities and reduced civilian casuaties as much as they can. It was always a battle between JTF and Tompolo group or JTF vs Ateke, etc. At several times the various groups fight themselves when boundaries are crossed hence making the job easier for JTF.
Whereas the agitations has brought about increased funding in NDDC, creation of Niger Delta Ministry, more attention to ND indigenes in recent recruitment/scholarship, etc. Although I personally condem some of the activities of the militants of ND, BOKO HARAM cannot be compared to them. Boko haram SHOULD TELL THEIR PEOPLE WHAT THEY STAND TO BENEFIT IF NOT FOR THE FOOLISH 72 VIRGINS.

0lumide:

Thank you super much!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you!!

But what was the story of Soboma? And how did he connect into all this, I met him after he broke out of jail he told me that though because I wasn't around when that happened, I met him London once, then again in Canada while I was studying! He pretty much told me a lot about the Niger Delta and hence why I decided to do my services in PH!!!

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~Bluetooth:

You just reduced a violent of over 4 years to about two paragraph of mere fantansy ? So when cult groups clash,must they kidnap oyinbos,toddlers,old women even as far as calabar ? I never knew Ateke vs asari clashes in Ph can reach calabar and uyo ! Stop deceiving yourself,Mend is as useless as boko haram. war against Ateke Tom Niger Delta Vigilante(Iceland cult) over supremacy and maily linked to oil bunkering activities. Asari continued provoked utternaces against the Nigeria goverment led to OBJ calling for his arrest. In protesting for Asari arrest, several militant group which hitherto where fighting for resource control came together to form MEND in a village close to Amassoma in Bayelsa State- mind you most of the people at the formation stage where learned hence the name Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta.
Upon formation of MEND they commence with kidnapping of foreign workers in the creeks hoping to use that to negotiate for Asari release but to no avail. This is what later degenerated to the series of kidnapping demand for ramsone and attacks on oil facilities intensifying. Although Asari was released shortly after Late Yar Adua took his oath of office, kidnapping had successfully been hijacked by criminals as a stable business that pays well. Original agitators continued their attack on oil facilities and reduced civilian casuaties as much as they can. It was always a battle between JTF and Tompolo group or JTF vs Ateke, etc. At several times the various groups fight themselves when boundaries are crossed hence making the job easier for JTF.
Whereas the agitations has brought about increased funding in NDDC, creation of Niger Delta Ministry, more attention to ND indigenes in recent recruitment/scholarship, etc. Although I personally condem some of the activities of the militants of ND, BOKO HARAM cannot be compared to them. Boko haram SHOULD TELL THEIR PEOPLE WHAT THEY STAND TO BENEFIT IF NOT FOR THE FOOLISH 72 VIRGINS.
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You just reduced a violent of over 4 years to about two paragraph of mere fantansy ? So when cult groups clash,must they kidnap oyinbos,toddlers,old women even as far as calabar ? I never knew Ateke vs asari clashes in Ph can reach calabar and uyo ! Stop deceiving yourself,Mend is as useless as boko haram.

~Bluetooth:

You just reduced a violent of over 4 years to about two paragraph of mere fantansy ? So when cult groups clash,must they kidnap oyinbos,toddlers,old women even as far as calabar ? I never knew Ateke vs asari clashes in Ph can reach calabar and uyo ! Stop deceiving yourself,Mend is as useless as boko haram. war against Ateke Tom Niger Delta Vigilante(Iceland cult) over supremacy and maily linked to oil bunkering activities. Asari continued provoked utternaces against the Nigeria goverment led to OBJ calling for his arrest. In protesting for Asari arrest, several militant group which hitherto where fighting for resource control came together to form MEND in a village close to Amassoma in Bayelsa State- mind you most of the people at the formation stage where learned hence the name Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta.
Upon formation of MEND they commence with kidnapping of foreign workers in the creeks hoping to use that to negotiate for Asari release but to no avail. This is what later degenerated to the series of kidnapping demand for ramsone and attacks on oil facilities intensifying. Although Asari was released shortly after Late Yar Adua took his oath of office, kidnapping had successfully been hijacked by criminals as a stable business that pays well. Original agitators continued their attack on oil facilities and reduced civilian casuaties as much as they can. It was always a battle between JTF and Tompolo group or JTF vs Ateke, etc. At several times the various groups fight themselves when boundaries are crossed hence making the job easier for JTF.
Whereas the agitations has brought about increased funding in NDDC, creation of Niger Delta Ministry, more attention to ND indigenes in recent recruitment/scholarship, etc. Although I personally condem some of the activities of the militants of ND, BOKO HARAM cannot be compared to them. Boko haram SHOULD TELL THEIR PEOPLE WHAT THEY STAND TO BENEFIT IF NOT FOR THE FOOLISH 72 VIRGINS.

You just reduced a violent of over 4 years to about two paragraph of mere fantansy ? So when cult groups clash,must they kidnap oyinbos,toddlers,old women even as far as calabar ? I never knew Ateke vs asari clashes in Ph can reach calabar and uyo ! Stop deceiving yourself,Mend is as useless as boko haram.

Yes MEND is useless but their agitation brought some benefit. Tell me about BOKO HARAM. The group clahes only spread to other ND CITIES.

Bensonite:

Soboma was the de facto leader of Icelander cult which merged with Ateke Tom( Niger Delta Vigilante) and became Ateke second in command till in 2004 October when he killed one Minabo that led to him surrending himself for arrest after serious man hunt. He later broke jail in 2005 and led another breakaway faction called outlaws(mainly cult group) He got the sympathy of some MEND leaders in Rivers State like Dagogo Farah until he had problem with them in late 2008. He later re-united with Ateke Tom as JTF and MEND where after him and he needed to survive.
While he is dead(2010) now as you know and I do not want to speak on who killed him. This is still sensitive in Port Harcourt.

Ignore that one with his imbeccilic posts;claiming MEND was better than boko haram.MEND operated on every level of crimes and the least was kidnapping.Can you see the weapons that surrendered during the amnesty ? Even biafra republic was not as sophisticated as that !

alj_harem:

i chose to ignore this statement when i saw it

ileke-idi thank you

this ezeuche is clueless

do u know the amount of people MEND killed just because of oil

if u know the amount of nigerians mend killed alone, u would not be talking like this

fxtopedia:

[center]MEND=BOKO HARAM [/center]

All your excuses are paltry to exonerate MEND from being same with BOKO-HARAM.
The similarities includes:

Mend killed , Boko Haram Killed
Mend caused people sorrow Boko Haram caused people sorrow
Mend is a cancer to the nation Boko Haram is a cancer to the nation
Mend is a disgrace to Nigeria Boko Haram is a disgrace to Nigeria
Mend are bunch of slow people Boko Haram are bunch of slow people
Mend and Boko Haram had turned many a wonan into widowhood  

PS: A reasonable being will not support any ACT of violence.  

~Bluetooth:

Do you know how many Nigerians,british,Americans and other nationalities have died in the hands of Mend ? See let me tell you something,Mend crisis can only be subdued for a period of time,it will resuscitate in the nearest future and so is boko haram crisis will be because the conservatism of the northerners is their way of life that can't be surpressed.This problem has been around for centuries so I don't know why y'all are killing yourselves over it.
Sometimes i wish we can just split this country so that the northerners can go their own but in as much as we still remain one,all we need is the peace that can keep us in one piece.there are fundamental issues that need to be addressed before boko haram issue can be decisively dealt with and these are issues that have spanned since the pre-colonial eras.

jamace:

I hate to hear comparisons putting MEND and Boko Haram in the same boat.

MEND fought for something tangible and meaningful - better lives from resources from their land. And now that the govt has listened and provided better life (to a large extent), MEND is happy and has calm down. Please note that no amount spent on MEND is too much because that is the goose that lays the golden egg.

Now, what is Boko Haram fighting for? "We don't want western education, we want Islamic education", abi? No problem. Thank God, the fed govt  allowed sharia practice  for  their states and their states are already practicing the sharia legal system. The fed govt has also established nomadic education for them.   With all these in place, What else do they want the fed govt to do? The worst I expect from Boko Haram is to  refuse to send their children to western education schools, period. Why kill and maim people and disturb the peace of the country?  . 

With the way Boko Haram is carrying out offensive actions against innocent citizens, there seem to be an undertone to their actions because their demands are already met and in place.