ikanya: The new American position on Goodluck J's administration simply shows that GEJ is becoming some how independent minded. It simply shows that the administration is reasonably deviating from the direction that serves majorly the American interests as opposed to the Nigerians'.
Obviously, it was not for the love of Nigerians that the Obama administration has come up with this people oriented position.

“Nigerians are hungry for progress and improvement in their lives, but northern Nigerians feel this need most acutely. Life in Nigeria may be tough for many, but life in the North is grim for almost all,”

“Public opinion polls and news reports suggest there is a strong sentiment throughout the country - but especially in the North - that government is not on the side of the people and their poverty is a result of government neglect, corruption, and abuse.”

Carson said President Goodluck Jonathan’s government needed a new social compact with northern citizens, local non-governmental organisations, civil society, and religious leaders, adding that “Abuja needs an economic recovery strategy that complements its security strategy.

“Northern populations are currently trapped between violent extremists on the one hand and heavy-handed government responses on the other. They need to know that their president is going to go to extraordinary lengths to fix their problems “he said.

lacasa: For d 1st time in dis generation, the U.S is saying the truth, GEJ is the worst, iinsensitive n incomppetent person to handle nigeria in a time like this.

Wwith GEJ, people r nw suffering due to subsiidy removal, coorruption is increasing instead of declining, wrong n stupid govt policies, public n daft statemments made by him n his umblerra, n to make it worse HE SAID BOKO WILL END BY JUNE howwwww?

Freesh air Fresh air Fresh air ...wat a slowpoke

pssword: I find this Carson piece both annoying and to be honest quite cowardly from the US. How can it be the government of Nigeria's fault that fundamentalists
bomb fellow citizens. Is this cowardice on display in a poor attempt to curry favour with the fundamentalist. The US should stop trying, the Boko Haram
Islamist fundamentalist hate the US without reservation and nothing they say now will/can ever change that.

He says:


Is the desperation in other parts of Nigeria? Has he been to the villages in west, east, ss and middle belt to see the desperation
Just because they don't go around bombing everyone, does not mean that there are less desperate.

He writes:


Is this Carson's justification for the bombing, how come the south have not been bombing up the country. Why didn't these fundamentalist bomb the country when we had a northern president?

He also writes:


No Mr Carson, Northern nigeria needs pact with themselves. They need to sort out themselves and work out what they want. The northerners need to ask their leaders why the region is in its current state. They need to work out that an almajiri school that only
teaches islamic education will not bring entrepreneurs that will create jobs in the region, they need to work out the bombings and instability will not attract investors to the region. They, the northerners need to get their own house in order and stop blaming everyone else for problems of the region.

Finally he writes:


The US have been predicting the collapse of Nigeria for some time and this Carson fellow is just another voice applying the screw. One has to ask, what is the USA and Obama after? Is it the oil, is it the destabilisation of a potentially great country so another China won’t rise to compete with them, is it the joy in destroying the African continent. It completely baffles me what is to be gained by America in this case. It is easy to see why so many dislike America and its foreign policy..

emmysam2: [b]Agreed, Boko Haram "may be" the product of poverty and social stagnation in the north. But lets face the truth,.. they should have their leaders to blame and not meccessarily blame the present government. The Nigerian situation is unique. The Bottomline is every political issue is always Religion. America may not neccessarily understand the true picture. Consider these facts?

1.The North and its Corrupt Leaders have Ruled and Ruin this country in many years than their southern counterparts. The Northern Leaders were better placed to turn around the lives of their citizens but fail to do that. Coupled with the fact that the Northern Religious doctrine encourages Class Structures that rather enslaves and enpoverish the masses... hence the situation where the gap between the rich and the poor is alarmingly wider in the North.
2. Will Boko Haram have come up had it been a Muslim North had won the last Presidential poll? No! No!! No!!! To tell you the truth, Boko Haram is nothing but a calculated attempt to bring down the present government. This agenda is very clear.
3. What are Boko Haram claims? Do their claims justify the senseless killings? Why are the killings targeted at christians?

I bet anyone, If power should go back to the North and we will no longer hear of Boko Haram again.
I rest my case[/size]

emmatok:

So who is to blamed for the bombings.

ekt_bear: So there are 3 levels of government in Nigeria.

Federal.

State.

Local.

So which is Carson castigating for lack of performance in the North?

Keep in mind that both state and local are fully controlled by that same north....

Kobojunkie:

at last wetin? The world has always known, but since the Nigerian people overwhelmingly said yes, we all decided to wait and watch for when people will finally open their eyes to what they accepted last april. April 16th is around the corner, and yet another year of business as usual, it seems this has been.

olajide_07:
Kobojunkie I guess when I first said on this forum he was clueless you said something about him and the east finally you have come around or were you just trying to fuel more talk, but finally the nigeria people

Kobojunkie:

You must have the wrong person. Anyone who knows Kobojunkie on this forum will tell you that you have the wrong person.

Kobojunkie:

You must have the wrong person. Anyone who knows Kobojunkie on this forum will tell you that you have the wrong person.

Fred.N:

Nigerians should wake up. The present US govt do not have our interest at heart by not designating Boko Haram a terrorist organisation


[center]That leaves one question. Why hasn't Boko Haram been designated a terrorist organization? it has killed more people than some of the organizations on the list and it is dedicated to ethnic cleansing, something that we decided was unacceptable when it came to Muslims. Shouldn't it then be equally unacceptable when it is being done by Muslims to Christians?

Apparently not. Johnnie Carson, Obama's Chicago born man in Africa, and the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at subcommittee hearings chaired by Senator Coons, dismissed the idea of designating Boko Haram a terrorist organization and claimed falsely, that despite Boko Haram's repeated statements about its goals and its very name, that this conflict was not driven by religion, but by social inequities.[/center]

Questions about Boko Haram's terrorism against Christians were rerouted into what Carson described as a "comprehensive" approach to the problem, sidelining security assistance in favor of providing social aid to the Muslim north and urging the Nigerian government to stop aggressively fighting terrorism.

Boko Haram had been inspired by the Taliban and American diplomats are forcefully pushing the Nigerian government into adopting the same disastrous failed "Hearts and Minds" policies of Afghanistan. Instead of combating Boko Haram, we will be increasing funding to the Muslim north and even opening a consulate there. And of course urging Nigeria to appoint more Muslims to high ranking positions.

[center]While the subcommittee on Homeland Security has urged that Boko Haram be designated a terrorist group, diplomats in the State Department are doing everything possible to sabotage the effort. The lies are coming fast and thick. In the New York Times, Jean Herskovitz wrote an op-ed insisting that there was no Boko Haram, suggesting instead that random criminal gangs were really responsible for the mass murder of Christians.[/center]

[center]As a government employee, Johnnie Carson was somewhat more discreet, but took the same position that the real fault lies with the Christian South and the Nigerian government for keeping Muslims oppressed and in poverty, and that the only solution is to pour money, jobs and power into the north. The unstated endgame of this is to create a stalemate that will force the Nigerian political system to make further concessions to Islam and the Sharia law that Boko Haram is fighting for.[/center]

1. Boko Haram is not going to go away until there are no christians in Nigeria
2. Boko Haram isn"t just a product of poor muslims, this is part of a global jihad and Nigerians are asleep to that fact
3. Christians and other religions will continue to face increasing threats to their lives and existence until they get what they want
4. The Jihad goes beyond the bombs. It also includes the gradual concessions made by each succesive govt to the muslim not favouring the acceptance of islam into govt such as hajj, almajiri and national mosques



for more check out
http://nofailsafe./2012/04/08/boko-haram-us-officials-against-terrorist-group-label/

oiseworld: i am surprised at the response of the American government, the south and the northern Christians would have to sit up and be prepared to defend them selves. one attack on the world trade center and multiple videos by osama Bin laden claiming responsibility was enough to term al-queda a terrorist group, but when the case comes to Nigeria its a different story entirely. and the world is watching. what do they want with Nigeria. if abdul mutalab had succeeded in blowing up that air line it would have been a different story.

alj harem:

You would be surprise because they have used you all and now have nothing to lose but say the truth.

I remember during the fuel subsidy (I am sorry to say) but ideeiot like you were saying "even the US support GEJ on the removal" apparently it was to Nigeria favour but now it is to their favour ba ? LOL