FANTASY OF CRUSHING INSURGENCY IN 24 HOURS*
Between Partisan Propaganda and Desperate Dreamers
--Attorney Patryk Utulu

Like being told that your cousin was again publicly crowned the World's Ugliest Girl it never ceases to simultaneously amuse, amaze and sadden the soul to hear fellow Nigerians (most of whom have never picked up a real gun, never put on a military uniform in service of nation, and surely, never been to an active war zone) talk with loud fake "bravado" and declaratory ignorance about how the Federal Government of Nigeria ought to have crushed Boko Haram within one month (or "in 24 hours" as a late, former Military Head of State infamously suggested).

Welcome to Fantasy Nation!!!

Boko Haram was founded in 2002 as (Jamā‘at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da‘wah wa’l-Jihād) meaning the "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad." Boko Haram never hid their intentions.The Jihadists announced their presence to Nigerians via terrorism and violence that same year. They've been attacking ever since. A former Military Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, was made the civilian President of Nigeria on May 29, 1999 through May 29 2007. SO BOKO HARAM WAS FOUNDED UNDER PRESIDENT OBASANJO'S ADMINISTRATION.

Thus, regardless of what you hear from Nigerian propagandists Boko Haram was actually founded under President Olusegun Obasanjo when he was already 3 years in office. The first 5 years of Boko Haram was under the administration of President Obasanjo WHO DID NOT AND/OR COULD NOT CRUSH BOKO HARAM. I am NOT making this up. Boko Haram is a recent history of Nigeria as new as "yesterday." Yet this is the sort of critical information that some Nigerians want other Nigerians to forget. It is the sort of information that annoys those who love to pretend that Boko Haram started only when Dr. Jonathan became President. Some intellectual clowns and illiterate haters even go so far as to openly claim that President Jonathan somehow founded Boko Haram.
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From 1999-2005 Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, far removed from Abuja, from national stature and the Nigerian Presidency!!!
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Partisan propagandists think Nigerians are stupid and that we won't remember. They think their rage would intimidate us into silence as they attempt to re-write our history. Whenever they realize they can't challenge the corrective facts you provide they fall back on their favorite tactic, which is to accuse you of working for PDP/President Jonathan. It never seems to occur to them that if they would stop lying about our history I will stop rebuking them with factual corrections. I have been telling those who would listen that an "insurgency" is NEVER like an easily settled schoolyard fight. As insurgents are NOT led by foreigners nations can't simply chase them across the border into neighboring countries and see the end of fighting. Boko Haram are Nigerians who would always find shelter and support among political and ethnic sectors and co-religionists. That is how (why) insurgencies grow like mushrooms and survive like fibrous-rooted grass.

Boko Haram is like many other atavistic religious insurgencies. Our experience in Nigeria isn't unique. All we have to do is learn from the experience of various nations dealing with this type of insurgency. But Nigerians love fantasies. We love to lie to ourselves. For political, tribal and religious reasons Nigerians are easily susceptible to absurd stories that even children ought to reject. We are a nation of highly intelligent people who become conveniently illiterate on matters that demand skepticism. Nigerian leaders have always benefited from these pockets of amnesia, illusions, desperation and illiteracy of millions of youths some of whom they use as political thugs, suicide bombers and disposable Jihadists.

In 55 years of nationhood Nigeria has had 15 LEADERS within 14 NATIONAL administrations. Some leaders wielded unlimited powers that they used to jail journalists, kill opponents and destroy democracy BUT NEVER BUILT EVEN ONE PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL, MUCH LESS A UNIVERSITY. The same leaders are experts are making new fake promises.When questioned about their past activities their apologists would quickly point fingers in all other directions as diversionary tactic. They succeed because Nigerians are addicted to the lies and fantasies. It helps them avoid asking hard questions. They love the lies and fantasies so much that some Nigerians would even hate anyone who dare bring up facts that puncture the collective bubble of self-induced ignorance that protect them from the realities of their miserable existence.

For example, when Nigerians heard that a late, former Military Head of State said that "if an insurgency lasts for more than 24 hours the government has a hand in it," millions of Nigerians mindlessly repeated that naive and nonsensical statement all over social networks without even stopping to see how childish the statement was. Strangely, no one ever shared evidence that he ever said it.

THE STATEMENT IS NONSENSICAL AND MILITARILY-NAIVE BECAUSE NO INSURGENCY ON EARTH HAS EVER BEEN DEFEATED IN LESS THAN "MULTI" YEARS, MUCH LESS CRUSHED IN MONTHS OR "IN 24 HOURS."

**Russia, a military superpower with its SPETSNAZ (the globally feared Special Forces) has been fighting Muslim Chechen Insurgency since 1940 (75 years).
**Spain under world-renowned dictator General Francisco Franco (1939-1975) battled Basque Insurgency from 1952-1980 (28 years). Even Franco's brutal military suppression did not end the fighting till the political settlement of 1980.
**The Irish Republic Army (IRA) mostly urban insurgency against the tactically advanced British Counter-terrorism Forces lasted from 1969-2005 ((36 years).
** The U.S. Military has been fighting Afghan Taleban since 2001 (14 years)
**Nuclear armed India is still fighting Kashmiri Insurgents since 1990 (25 yrs).

THESE ARE FACTS KNOWN TO THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

YET, SOMEHOW, ADULT NIGERIANS SWALLOWED THE SILLY FANTASY AND SENSELESS, ILLITERATE PROPAGANDA THAT AN INSURGENCY CAN BE DEFEATED IN 6 YEARS -- OR EVEN "IN 24 HOURS"!!!

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Attorney Patryk A. Utulu
U.S.-based Attorney & Strategic Communications Specialist
Global Defense Analyst and Global Events Commentator
Executive Vice President, Nigerian Diaspora-North America
Executive Director, The Center 4 Community Empowerment & Lifeskills, Inc
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Mr Utulu,
You left out bits and pieces of the puzzle.

The truth is bokoharam is a movement. Movements are non-perishable...when threatened with extermination they simply disband, in simple terms melt away, and reform with same ideology but with stronger consciousness and resolve at a later time and continue with the old struggle.

Bokoharam is a movement and had been in Nigeria as far back as the 60s, if not earlier. It was known as maitatsine!

The rulers in the North had a long and arms length knowledge and dealings with them. Over the years the policy of both the rulers and sitting Nigerian government was to contain them. In other words, if they keep to their belief and practice without chaos and disturbance in society they will not be bothered by goverment or its agencies. In fact, this arrangement and understanding is mirrored in the Nigerian Government understanding with MEND and delta militants...except for the monetary reward attached to the delta side and called amnesty. The policy has always been to disarm the movement and then contain it. This strategy is used universally.

So we should ask how and when bokoharam got out of containment and flared up into where we are now finding them severely unmanagable and uncontainable?

They remained contained under Obasanjo and YarAdua. How did Jonathan let the dog loose?

This guy u dey crazy just look at what your papa and mama train suffer to send u school come back with rubbish u dey crazy look weting u talk which one be nija own in side if ur so call jona is sense ably how do u say span end there own second if u cannot end it in six years why will i believe u to end it in six weeks pls and pls i no go school but i have common sense no polish this matter changer most happen if after four years them to no do good then we switch to a new party but now we want change

MayorofLagos:
Mr Utulu,
You left out bits and pieces of the puzzle.

The truth is bokoharam is a movement. Movements are non-perishable...when threatened with extermination they simply disband, in simple terms melt away, and reform with same ideology but with stronger consciousness and resolve at a later time and continue with the old struggle.

Bokoharam is a movement and had been in Nigeria as far back as the 60s, if not earlier. It was known as maitatsine!

The rulers in the North had a long and arms length knowledge and dealings with them. Over the years the policy of both the rulers and sitting Nigerian government was to contain them. In other words, if they keep to their belief and practice without chaos and disturbance in society they will not be bothered by goverment or its agencies. In fact, this arrangement and understanding is mirrored in the Nigerian Government understanding with MEND and delta militants...except for the monetary reward attached to the delta side and called amnesty. The policy has always been to disarm the movement and then contain it. This strategy is used universally.

So we should ask how and when bokoharam got out of containment and flared up into where we are now finding them severely unmanagable and uncontainable?

They remained contained under Obasanjo and YarAdua. How did Jonathan let the dog loose?

If am not mistaken, was it not during Yar'Adua's time that boko did terrorise Maiduguri, beheading pastors till the police arrested their members and instead of locking them up and interrogating them, they wiped all of them out and in the process destroyed useful information required to track down their sponsors and affiliates.. The singular act during Yar'Adua's regime was the motivation behind their regrouping and strength.

So why put all the blames on GEJ again?

If other leaders in the past suffered the castigation you people unjustly castigated GEJ, then they wouldn't have lasted long in office, especially OBJ..

MayorofLagos:

Bokoharam is a movement and had been in Nigeria as far back as the 60s, if not earlier. It was known as maitatsine!

Evidence please?

bewla:
This guy u dey crazy just look at what your papa and mama train suffer to send u school come back with rubbish u dey crazy look weting u talk which one be nija own in side if ur so call jona is sense ably how do u say span end there own second if u cannot end it in six years why will i believe u to end it in six weeks pls and pls i no go school but i have common sense no polish this matter changer most happen if after four years them to no do good then we switch to a new party but now we want change

Tact is having nothing to say and saying nothing. You must be a stranger to intelligence. Your points are like your grammatical construction; inarticulate.

The first step to building an opinion is completely understanding the scenario. Your opinion here is as ill-fitting as wool on a cockroach. Six weeks to unsettle the Boko Haram sounds like a great deal to me. They wouldn't have time to re-organize themselves, the army won't rest on its oars and the elections can proceed without fear of mass annihilation of voters by their daring suicide bombers or worse. For how long do you think the Army can sustain her offence on Boko Haram?

DesChyko:


Tact is having nothing to say and saying nothing. You must be a stranger to intelligence. Your points are like your grammatical construction; inarticulate.

The first step to building an opinion is completely understanding the scenario. Your opinion here is as ill-fitting as wool on a cockroach. Six weeks to unsettle the Boko Haram sounds like a great deal to me. They wouldn't have time to re-organize themselves, the army won't rest on its oars and the elections can proceed without fearss annihilation of voters by their daring suicide bombers or worse. For how long do you think the Army can sustain her offence on Boko Haram?

first your name sand as the size of ur brain u here him said unsettle of wipe them out or contain them u to no get brain or u have sold ur brain to tan like your name (des) if u c that name in yoruba put o in front u get Ode meaning fool grammar no be my language

bewla:
first your name sand as the size of ur brain u here him said unsettle of wipe them out or contain them u to no get brain or u have sold ur brain to tan like your name (des) if u c that name in yoruba put o in front u get Ode meaning fool grammar no be my language

You no know who hold your change.
Just start by buying a white fowl go see your village chief.

jeffizy:

If Obasanjo was around when BH began it's existing campaign , then we agree he failed.

Who is the 'we' there? Obasanjo himself? His aides at that time?
The people you are answering for are unwilling to accept responsibility for the monster Nigeria is fighting today. Rather, they are riding in the waves as all of the blames are being vested on GEJ himself.
It would be a grave mistake forgetting that this insurgency has a political undertone to it or that 'notable' persons who claim to have the interest of the country at heart but shied away from being involved.
The first step to completely curbing the insurgency is to locate their contact(s) in the Nigerian Government. As long as he exists, all solutions are temporary and must fail in the long run.

DesChyko:


You no know who hold your change.
Just start by buying a white fowl go see your village chief.

thanks i dont do that i am a muslim not a fellow of black or white witch like u and jonasatan but pretend to b christen wery