Femi Fani-Kayode
''Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko
Haram, additional 34 soldiers were killed
two days ago but it wasn't in the news''-
Deji Adeyanju.
Mr. Deji Adeyanju is absolutely right. The
most heartless and reprehensible thing
that our government could have done is
to cover-up the fact that 105 of our
soldiers were killed by Boko Haram a few
days ago. To do such a thing is simply
evil.
A soldier ought to be honoured in death
and this is especially so if he dies in the
course of doing his duty and fighting for
his nation.
The government has not only
dishonoured them by not acknowledging
their sacrifice but they have also buried
them in the wilderness like rabid dogs.
This is wickedness of the highest order
and President Buhari, his Chief of Army
Staff and his Minister of Defense should
bury their heads in shame.
Anyone that buys the lie and propaganda
that the 105 soldiers never died and that
they are still alive is a compound fool or
village idiot.
Will the military also deny the fact that a
few days ago 34 of our soldiers were
killed by Boko Haram? These boys died
for their country. Why deny them?
I am outraged by the fact that a soldier
will sacrifice his life for his country yet the
citizens and authorities of that country
don't even appreciate it.
Pictures of the dead bodies were posted
on social media. Everyone in the military
knows that those soldiers are dead. It is
an open secret. Yet because government
denies it so many people just choose to
believe them.
The truth is that Boko Haram must have
used chemical weapons in the attack.
When you look at the pictures of the dead
bodies this is obvious. It was probably
mustard gas.
All we want from the military is the truth.
If 105 soldiers were not killed then how
many actually were?
The whole episode happened last week in
Borno State and the military authorities
are denying it. I am sickened by that.
If others cannot appreciate the
importance of honouring our dead
soldiers, I can. I will not be intimidated
and I will not remain silent.
Tell us where our boys are buried and if
you refuse to do so we will keep asking.
There must be accountability and respect
for those that have made the supreme
sacrifice just to keep the rest of us safe.
Our soldiers deserve that much.
Finally, let it be said loud and clear that
since President Buhari came to power he
has not bought one bullet for the military.
Considering the fact that we are in the
middle of a protracted and very bloody
war I believe that this is utterly shameful.
If you say you want to fight and defeat
Boko Haram then why are you not buying
arms for your troops?
This brings me to other matters and raises
other questions about our President's
sincerity of purposes and commitment.
You say that you are fighting Boko Haram
yet you are travelling the world drinking
tea with world leaders whilst your soldiers
are secretly being slaughtered.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet
you were nominated as their spokesman
and chief negotiator two years ago in
proposed peace talks with the Federal
Government.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram but
the man you appointed as your National
Security Adviser was retired from the army
a few years ago for ordering the release
of Boko Haram terrorists under suspicious
circumstances.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram but
the first thing you did when you came to
power was to remove military checkpoints.
This guaranteed Boko Haram free
movement and access to the entire
country.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet
last year you told the world that an attack
on Boko Haram is an attack on the north.
You say you are fighting terror yet since
you came to power Boko Haram has
grown in strength, has regained lost
territory and has been declared the
''world’s number one most deadly terror
group'' by the Global Terror Index.
You say you are fighting terror yet since
you came to power Nigeria, according to
the Global Terror Index, has been
declared as not just having ''the first most
deadly terror group in the world'' which is
Boko Haram but also of having ''the
fourth most deadly terror group in the
world'' which is a group that the Index
describe as the ''Fulani militants'' and that
we call the Fulani herdsmen.
You say you are fighting Boko Haram yet
since you came to power Nigeria has been
declared the world's ''third most
terrorised country'' by the Global Terror
Index after Iraq and Afghanistan which
were declared first and second
respectively whilst Syria and Pakistan were
declared fourth and fifth.
You say you are a ''born again democrat''
yet you voted against the protection of
human rights at the United Nations
alongside Iran, Zimbabwe and North
Korea.
You say you respect human rights yet you
barricade Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the
former National Security Adviser, in his
home, endanger his life, deny him medical
attention, flout court orders and make
him critically ill.
You say you respect human rights yet you
arrest Governor Boni Haruna simply for
standing as surety for Dasuki and you try
to force him to abandon his friend.
You say you respect human rights yet you
raid Governor Attahiru Bafarawa's home
and arrest and detain his son simply
because he is friends with Dasuki.
You say you respect freedom of speech
and human rights yet you lock up Nnamdi
Kanu indefinitely and your security agents
shoot two unarmed and harmless pro-
Biafra youths to death in Enugu simply
because they were involved in a peaceful
demonstration.
You say that you are a believer in the rule
of law yet you ordered your secret police
to storm a sitting governor’s official home
in Akwa Ibom knowing that he enjoys
immunity from such matters.
You say you love Nigeria yet a bomb goes
off in Kano killing over 21 people and
instead of coming back home to mourn
with your people you continue junketing
around the world.
You say you know how to run Nigeria but
according to Paul Wallace and Michael
Cohen of the United States magazine
known as Bloomberg Business your
''bounce has become bust'', your ''policies
irk investors'', you have ''destroyed
Nigeria's economy'' and you ''do not have
the capacity to move the country
forward''.
You say that you know how to manage the
economy yet stocks and shares have
crashed, small businesses are folding up,
our foreign currency has dried up,
industries are collapsing, agricultural
output has decreased, our foreign
reserves have been spent and the value of
the naira has depreciated since you came
to power and it continues to fall.
You say you know what you are doing and
how to manage Nigeria's affairs yet the
U.S-based Washington Times newspaper
says that you lied to America about your
so-called good intentions for Nigeria and
that you have ''duped the United States of
America'' with your false promises and
empty words.
You say that you are fighting poverty yet
according to the Business Day Newspaper
Nigerians are ''getting poorer for the first
time since 1999''.
You say that you will restore our country’s
fortunes yet the fuel queues are back and
the prices of food, transport and basic
commodities are soaring by the day.
You say that you are a man of your word
and after you were declared winner of the
election you promised not to malign,
persecute, witch-hunt, demonise,
disrespect or go after President Goodluck
Jonathan and members of his
administration unless you had concrete
evidence of wrongdoing yet when you
came to power you did precisely that.
You say you are fair-minded, true to your
friends, loyal to your supporters and
always reasonable yet you did not
concede even one ministerial slot or
approve one ministerial nominee of the
two men that helped you more than any
others to win the presidential election,
namely President Olusegun Obasanjo and
Governor Bola Tinubu.
You say that you want the country to
change, that you believe in fairness and
equity, that you are a progressive, that
you believe in a generational power shift
and that you want the country to move
forward yet you are trying to destroy
Governor Bukola Saraki simply because he
won an election and became Senate
President.
You say that you are fighting corruption
yet no-one has been made to face the
music or brought to book over the 25
billion naira REMITA and Systemspecs
scandal and neither has the matter been
clarified or resolved even though it has
been established that the whole deal was
struck under your watch.
You say you love Nigeria and all Nigerians
yet your Fulani kinsmen, under the guise
of herding cattle, are slaughtering
thousands of innocent people all over the
South and Middle Belt, yet you remain
their Grand Patron and you refuse to utter
a word of condemnation for their actions.
You say you respect Nigerians yet every
time you travel out of the country you
spend your time telling foreigners and the
foreign media how useless, rotten and
corrupt your people are and how you are
the only saint in Nigeria.
You refused to shake the hands of your
female Ministers on religious grounds yet
you went to Malta and gleefully shook the
hand of the Queen of England and you
went to Germany and merrily shook the
hand of Angela Merkel.
You said that you will rescue and bring
home the Chibok girls yet instead of doing
so many more girls have been abducted,
raped, killed and captured by Boko Haram
under your watch.
You promised to pay unemployed
graduates five thousand naira per month
if elected yet instead of doing so you
ushered in more unemployment, poverty
and despair into the land.
You promised to pay a minimum wage of
eighteen thousand naira per month to
workers if elected yet when you got there
you changed your mind and dishonoured
your word.
You promised to protect human rights yet
instead of doing so you arrest and detain
the sons of your perceived enemies and
no less than twenty of Colonel Sambo
Dasuki's staff.
In view of all this I am constrained to ask
whether President Muhammadu Buhari
has a conscience or is it that he has just
lost touch with reality? Everything that I
said about him during the Presidential
campaign has been confirmed and in just
six months he has betrayed the trust and
squandered the goodwill that the Nigerian
people bestowed upon him in the March
presidential elections. I have to say that I
am not surprised by this because his
''change'' mantra was just an illusion.
What he and his APC failed to disclose to
the Nigerian people during the campaign
is that what he meant by ''change'' was a
change from light to darkness. Sadly our
people trusted him and now he has
plunged our nation into that darkness.
May God enable him to find the courage
to retrace his steps before it is too late
and may the Lord deliver Nigeria from
those that are around him that fail to tell
him the truth.
I gather that they call those of us that
oppose President Buhari and that are PDP
supporters the ''wailing wailers''. That is
an interesting expression because by the
time Buhari finishes with Nigeria I have
little doubt that the entire country will be
wailing.
The truth is that I would rather be a
''wailing wailer'' that posterity vindicates
than a ''lying liar'' or a ''howling howler''
who has lost his way and who continues
to have confidence in a man like Buhar
and a party like the APC that is hell bent
on destroying our country and our
cherished democratic institutions with
their Rambo-like insensitivity and total
ineptitude.
All those ''lying liars'' and ''howling
howlers'' that voted for President Buhari
should clap for themselves for the terrible
mess our country is now in. We will
remember them in our prayers too.



www.thisdaylive.com/articles/does-president-muhammadu-buhari-have-a-conscience-/226923/

Buhari should always put on face cap now .. Buhari scammed us into one chance shenji !
i didn't read it to d end though.

I ve bought fuel above 150 naira for over a month nw and no one talking abt it nt even nlc or national Assembly.

Buhari shld address d nation nw

Things have never been this bad even during military era

Is that all he could come up with?...let him write more...Mr waling wailer.

lol...this wailers won't cease to amaze someone..u no remember to write any useless epistle during Pdp 6yrs of misrule,just 6months of the new administration you wanna die?Rip in advance to most of you anyways. I'm not sure you lots can make what's left of the 4years with the way you are going.

things like this happens when a dullard is in charge, and sorry to the sai zombies

things like this happens when a dullard is in charge, and sorry to the sai zombies

to whom Brian is given sense is expected

Mk una just leave baba.him still dey tour the world when him finish 4yrs don do.sai baba dole still think say he is still loved the way he was loved during election.

even if 10,000 soldiers were killed, shey na play dem go play for north ni?

abi in the form dey signed whole getting recruited into the army, is there no clause that states that "you are agreeing to die if needed be?"

besides, no army in this world announces how much of their soldiers were killed because it sends the right signal to the opponent camp and reverberates the wrong resonance in their own camp.

so, parrot FFK, you are just an idiot!

I learnt from a reliable source that most of the soldiers killed are from the South.... the Norther army office will group them and sen d them to Boko haram den to be slaughtered like a goat after given them little weapon to fight...The 105 soldiers killed are mostly from Delta state and Edo

SLIDEwaxie:
even if 10,000 soldiers were killed, shey na play dem go play for north ni?

abi in the form dey signed whole getting recruited into the army, is there no clause that states that "you are agreeing to die if needed be?"

besides, no army in this world announces how much of their soldiers were killed because it sends the right signal to the opponent camp and reverberates the wrong resonance in their own camp.

so, parrot FFK, you are just an idiot!

Idiot they never announced it , it was a leaked info...and mumu where did he say 10,000...are you blind or you cant read

AwiLand:


Idiot they never announced it , it was a leaked info...and mumu where did he say 10,000...are you blind or you cant read

I dnt talk with fools, okay? I said, EVEN IF 10,000 were killed. are u blind or can't comprehend. And I didn't tell u it was a lie, I simply told u no military will admit it for its disadvantage.

abi it brain is old ni?

and someone will blame ndigbo for clamouring for Biafra. Nigerians should arise now and redeem themselves. igbo soldiers, resign now! Dont become suya for boko haram. it is a plot. Buhari is a radical muslim and would love to islamise d whole nigeria, Buhari should swear with ogun dat he is not one of d sponsors of bokoharam. what is dat ekwensu called tinubu doing in Bayelsa state? una no go stone am? pls who is still taking APC serious?