Karl Marx’s thesis that economic
conditions determine the basis of
existence is yet to be proved wrong.
It is one tool I always apply in the
course of discovering the real
motives behind what people say or
do. But I must confess that
unravelling “Boko Haram”, which
many now call insurgency in the
north, has put this scientific method
in doubt for the past five years.
Somebody solved the riddle on
Wednesday: former Senate president
and former minister Dr Iyorchia Ayu.
In brief, this is what Ayu said at the
5th Convocation Lecture of the
Adekunle Ajasin University:
The oil wealth beneath the Chad
Basin is fanning the embers of
insurgency in the country because
prominent businessmen and
politicians in both Nigeria and Chad,
in association with French companies,
have invested heavily in oil
exploration and exploitation. They
are the principal financiers of, and
arms suppliers to, Boko Haram. The
group’s destabilisation of the north-
eastern part of Nigeria benefits these
investors because it delays
exploration and production on the
Nigerian side of Lake Chad.
The Lake Chad Basin is estimated to
have a reserve of 2.32billion barrels
of oil, and 14.65trillion cubic feet of
natural gas. The oil and gas flows
underground across the countries
sharing the Lake Chad Basin: Nigeria,
Chad, Niger and Cameroun. Using 3D
drilling, Chad is not only tapping oil
within its territory but also from
Nigeria, to push up its production
levels.
Boko Haram is made up of Nigerians
and a large number of Chadians from
the Chadian provinces of Lac and
Hadjer Lamis – provinces that share a
long border with north-eastern
Nigeria around the Lake Chad region
and provide Boko Haram with trained
Chadian fighters.
The drying up of Lake Chad, once the
largest water body in Africa, is
affecting the economic and social life
of over 30 million people in the four
countries around the lake. This has
resulted in the migration of many
farmers and herdsmen as well as
engineered local conflicts between
Camerounian and Nigerian nationals;
fishermen are fighting farmers and
herdsmen to stop diverting water
from the lake to their farms and
livestock.
The disappearance of Lake Chad and
subsidiary rivers has also created a
large population of unemployed and
discontented youth who have become
a reserve army easily available for
recruitment by the insurgents.
So far, Boko Haram has not attacked
any territory in Chad but has a cluster
of bases in Chad from where it
launches its terrorist activities in
Nigeria. President Idris Deby of Chad
is said to have cordial relations with
the insurgents.
The accuracy of Ayu’s postulation
could be doubted only by fools. Many
of us have often pointed fingers at
politicians as those behind terrorism
in the country. But Ayu has
mentioned the type of politicians –
those with economic interests to
protect. Therefore, Boko Haram is not
sponsored by anyone aspiring to be
the president of Nigeria. It is not
backed by the PDP or the APC. Also,
Boko Haram has nothing to do with
Islam or Christianity, north or south.
Neither is it a crusade against
western education.
Read full Article: http://
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Keep the Conspiracy Theories coming in!!! Ayu knows all this, yet the presidency doesn't? And they keep pointing their leprous fingers at political opponents?
Instead inspiring our military to victory, GEJ is busy playing dirty politics with human lives!! God dey sha!!

Boko haram has political, economic, religeous and socio cultural undertone.

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Keep the Conspiracy Theories coming in!!! Ayu knows all this, yet the presidency doesn't? And they keep pointing their leprous fingers at political opponents?
Instead inspiring our military to victory, GEJ is busy playing dirty politics with human lives!! God dey sha!!

One problem.i have with Gej is dat sincerely he needs a good lesson in regional politics,in as much I.do.commend.him.2 a certain extent.for.most of his developmental strides,he needs 2 be schooled in the dynamics of nigeria's regional and continental position and our interests.infacts his.advicers on foreign policy and ministry of foreign affairs have failed him and us in this fight