By: Osigwe Omo Ikirodah. Jan 13, 2016

Sometimes, a tragedy occurs not because the odds are against you, but because God wants to free your mind from the shackles of intellectual vacuity.

The Zaria massacre has completely changed my perspective in ways I never imagined. It has changed the way I regard Islam and certain Muslims who hold a barbaric view that we canbe killed with impunity. It has changed the way I even discharge my humanitarian pit projects.

I am less angry with El-Rufai and Sanusi Lamido who think the best way to dispel the phantom allegations that they are crypto-Shiite is to seize the tragedy, demolish our sanctuaries, desecrate our graveyards we painstakingly built without having to pesteron government for pecuniary support and launch vitriolic attacks on Shi’as just like the way Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel massacres Palestinians with a view to evoking anti-goyim sentiments whenever elections are around the corner. I am also less angry with Burutai than I am with Buhari, a devilish army officer because he wouldn’t have committed this heinous atrocity without a prior order from the above.

The Zaria massacre has hitherto made me reflect life in ways I was unable to do when I was a Northern fanatic. It made me realise that Goodluck Jonathan was truly a democrat,despite his shortcomings and unsolicited peccadillos, he is a lesser devil in comparison to Buhari.

He was pelted with stones in many states including my state Bauchi; he was cartooned in the most derogatory ways, his wife had been made a media favourite for her idiosyncratic English and campaigns of calumny were launched with the surreptitious connivance of such high-ranking politicians as Obasanjo with whose hands the fabrics of the Nigerian economy was destroyed.

Yet, the man had never resorted to imposing his wills upon voters thereby letting popular wish work its way. But one thing I have found striking about the mindset of some Buharist fanatics is they think critiquing him is tantamount to apostasy, more blasphemous than killing 1200 people including hapless women and 73 infants and more irksome than burning our members alive. But what I want people to understand is, my slain friend Bukhari Muhammed Bello Jega and I worked tirelessly for the success of Buhari, but the only thing Bukhari Muhammed Bello Jega received in return is death together with his beautiful wife and effervescent daughter while i am rewarded with the killing of my fiancée.

We would like to categorically make our position clear that, we will not resort to violence in sharp contrast to Boko Haram who embarked upon violent confrontations just because they were extra-judicially treated the way we are treated.

The solution is not to let bygones be bygones, no, but to use everything legal at our disposal including our mighty pens to tell the world the true reality of our dear country under the stewardship of a person who has made us a butt of his petty vexation without not even a wink of sympathy over the tragedy that has befallen us; a president who finds it hard to utter a word about the greatest massacre during his presidency but he’s quick to condemn a terrorist attack in US that killed only 12 people.

Well, many a reader may deride this humble elucidation of mine as iconoclastic, but the truth must be told no matter how bitter it may seem.

http://www.ireporteronline.com/p15435_how-the-zaria-massacre-made-me-think-different-of-gejpmb-by-aliyu-smith-musawy

hmm

Unfortunately, he will be there till 2019. We just hope and pray it won't get worse.

This will never get to the front page...

Una eye don dey open small small. You can't give what you don't have. Buhari is definitely not wired to live with criticism

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I dont bloody care.

Things are not getting better @all... And we voted for change

Your points are very reasonable but should wait till 2019 to be used for politics.

Gej i miss you every day let GOD keep us till 2019

A good writeup and it does get you thinking- but nowadays I find my self mulling more on the true benefits of this unbridled democracy being campaigned for all over the world and what comes to my mind is Fela's words " democracy... demonstration of craze" because if we are all not CRAZY I wonder how people can defend:

1. The right to give bail to people who made money from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, sentenced others to death for not fighting a war they were not armed for; while we hear stories from our judiciary of people being sentenced to hanging for stealing mobile phones with the use of village daggers!!

2. The right of Trump to be a hypocrite and spoil all Republican hopes of the Presidency and be celebrated for saying things "everyone is thinking, but afraid to say." It makes me wonder if people think our Creator made a mistake by allowing us to have a mind that thinks in silence separately from our mouth that vomits all openly.

3. The rights of women to wear Hijab despite the current reality that faces us where virtually all Boko Haram's suicide bombing are carried out by girls under the age of 14 wearing this item of cloth.

4.The right of anyone, again in this current reality and after experiencing many sour episodes in the past, to freely block the road all in the name of a ritual and religious fervour?


Clearly the writer is well educated and cannot claim to be ignorant.... but it seems that to be termed a "democrat" all you need to do is suspend "common sense" and agree that everyone has can do what ever they want including clearly criminal and detrimental acts (i.e . GEJ)

In short I prefer the Dubai and China approach any day, any time.

The thunder wey go fire buhari, still dey recieve severe purnishment from amadioha and sango, together!!!!

Is it because you voted for buhari and a northerner makes you and your people dey misbehave. We all need to sit up and ve a change of attitude. Impunity is over. Attitudinal change is the key to a properous nation

Wailers association, increasing by the day...
I laff in Greek! Wen we were warning dem that a leopard can't change its skin. They said he is now a Democrat.
Let all of us enjoy d change.


Proud Wailer

hmm mm. Sai Buhari anyone