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Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by omoalaro: 11:01pm On Jul 05, 2011
Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan
Posted: July 5, 2011 - 20:08
By SaharaReporters, New York

Four citizens of Borno State have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to engage in finding a just and lasting solution to the Boko Haram crisis in the area.

In a letter dated 28 June, Mamman Kashim, Kalli Gazali, Dr. Usman Ladan and Abba Kyari warned that a military solution can only be temporary. They drew attention to the root causes of the Boko Haram phenomenon which they described as injustice as well as an obvious lack of economic development in the Northeast. They point out that the area is “the most deprived part of Nigeria,” receiving less than 1% of Federal Government spending in the last five years.

“The solution to the problem is JOBS AND JUSTICE,” they said in their letter, which was also copied to General Owoeye Andrew Azazi, the National Security Advisor. “

They pointed out that the President of Nigeria is the President of all the zones of this country. “He should and must show that he is the Father of all the zones. His government will do best if it provides JUSTICE AND JOBS.”

Full text of the letter:

June 28, 2011


The President


Federal Republic of Nigeria


H.E., Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR


Aso Villa,
Abuja
 


BOKO HARAM: THE REAL ISSUES OPEN LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT


Mr President,
We, the undersigned, citizens of Nigeria, whose domicile of origin is Borno, write to you, as one with overall responsibility for national security to look into the cause of violence that has tragically engulfed Borno State and the sequence of events in the last three years, with a view to finding A JUST AND LASTING SOLUTION, AND NOT A MILITARY SOLUTION WHICH CAN ONLY BE TEMPORARY.


BEFORE THE VIOLENCE
-The late Mohammed Yusuf, like any other cleric of any religious sect, had a mosque and a following. He held weekly public sermons. He was exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right of assembly and worship. At no time was there a breach of the peace. His followers were young, able bodied, unemployed with no prospect of hope in the horizon. They had Western Education!, and therefore literate and aware of the prevailing social conditions. Increasingly, their sermons were taking the form of liberation theology, commenting on the ills, injustice and inequities, prevalent in their immediate environment. As a result, there was no love lost between them and the State Government.


THE SSS REPORT
-Such sermons, publicly made, caught the attention of the State Government. The State Security Service became interested in their activities. Investigations were carried out and a comprehensive report was written and made available to the Federal Authorities. Mohammed Yusuf himself was in regular contact with security services both in Maiduguri and Abuja. He was even charged to court.


THE FLASH POINT
-The first trigger for violence was when Mohammed Yusuf’s followers in a funeral procession, on their motorbikes were fired on by members of Operation Flush – a combined force of the Army and the Police – ostensibly for not wearing crash helmets. About 19 of them were fatally wounded. This force was said to be under the Operational control of the then State Governor. The incident led to the group taking the law into their hands, attacked and killed security personnel and burnt police stations. Two wrongs can’t make a right. We do not condone violence in any shape or form by any organisation. All we are trying to ensure is that the issues are understood.


THE VIOLENCE-
The Federal Government, on the instruction of the late President Umaru Yar’adua, responded with disproportionate, overwhelming and indiscriminate use of force against the entire community. The leader of the group, Mohammed Yusuf and a former Commissioner of Religious Affairs in the State, Buji Foi were arrested and were summarily, publicly and extra-judicially executed by the police. Young boys and even invalids on crutches were routinely rounded up, not at the scene of any violence and executed in the same manner. The footage of these executions were relayed world-wide on Al-Jazeera Television network and posted on YouTube.


THE SINS OF THE SON -IN-LAW

The late Baba Fugu, was a gentleman in his seventies. He was a respected figure in the local community. He was never declared wanted nor arrested by the police. He was Mohammed Yusuf’s father-in-law. He went to the Police Station voluntarily to make enquiries. He was executed at the Police Station. The sins of the son-in-law were visited on the father-in-law. Not even Osama bin-Laden’s relatives were ever treated like this. When the U.S. Navy seals attacked Osama bin Ladens premises, they went for their target. His wives and children were spared.
 



NSA/CDS/IGP’s REPORT
-The gravity of the situation led the Federal Government to set a high powered team comprising of the then National Security Adviser, Chief of Defence Staff and Inspector General of Police to investigate and report. The team went to Maiduguri and wrote a report. Nothing has been heard of that report.
OUR PRAYERS
In order to get to the root of the matter and arrive at a JUST SOLUTION, to consider the following.
a) Why was no proactive action taken and measures put in place as a result of the comprehensive report by the SSS?
b) What Law provides for the shooting of citizens by security forces for not wearing crash helmets?
c) What Law provides for the operational control of Operation flush, a combined team of the Army and the Police by the Borno State Governor?
d) Whether the victims were members of Boko Haram or not. Under what Law did the Police extra-judicially execute Mohammed Yusuf, Buji Foi and the young children and cripples? These are issues of violation of Fundamental Human Rights and the rule and due process of law.
e) Under what Law was Baba Fugu, (father-in-law to Mohammed Yusuf killed)?
f) What is the outcome of the ‘High powered post violence report’?
)

The Governor as the Chief Security Officer of the State and the Police Commissioner in whom operational powers were vested, should be invited to answer under what law they ordered these executions.
 
LET THE RULE OF LAW PREVAIL
 
Borno State is not Camp Delta and members of Boko Haram are not enemy combatants, where human rights and the rule of law can be dispensed with.
THE NEED FOR A STATESMAN-LIKE INTERVENTION

What was once a local affair is now taking a region wide dimension and threatening national security. All manner of crime is now conveniently subsumed under the spectre of Boko Haram. Meanwhile, the social and commercial activities in Borno are being grounded. Continuation of this situation will ultimately lead to the collapse of the local economy leading to more unemployment, despair and further conflict. Ethnic chauvinists, religious bigots and sundry criminals would have a field day. A frightening and forbidding prospect.

More indiscriminate military and police intervention will only lead to more innocent loss of life leading to more recruitment of young people into a militant and daring force, determined for revenge. More indiscriminate military and police intervention will lead to an angry population which will sympathize with, aid and assist the young as they take up arms against authority.



The root causes are two. 1) Injustice, which must be corrected. Secondly – an obvious lack of economic development in a zone (Northeast) which in the last 5 years has received less than 1% of Federal Government spending. It is the most deprived part of Nigeria. The solution to the problem is JOBS AND JUSTICE.

The President of Nigeria is President of all the zones of this country. He should and must show that he is the Father of all the zones. His government will do best if it provides JUSTICE AND JOBS.


With the greatest respect,
 
Mamman Kashim, Kalli Gazali
 
Dr. Usman Ladan Abba Kyari
 
Cc:
General Owoeye Andrew Azazi,
National Security Advisor

Hmmm.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 11:10pm On Jul 05, 2011
4 young minds wasting their time sending messages to a blind, deaf and voiceless presi-demented.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by aljharem3: 11:12pm On Jul 05, 2011
now what would he do, MEND ended the day GEJ won the election embarassed embarassed

Boko haram will end the day Buhari wins

tic for tat
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by violent(m): 11:15pm On Jul 05, 2011
blah blah blah!

Boko Haram was a peaceful sect until the Police fired on them!. . .what a load of crap!!!!!

If those guys wanted Justice to the damage done to them by the government, they would have demanded Justice as a ransom that could end the insistent violence.  What they wanted, what they stood for, was far more----they want infidels to be eradicated, western education abolished, and the Nigerian state Islamized.

Anyone painting any other shyt as attempted by original authors of the articles is merely playing the fool!!!!!!

The group was first founded in 2002 in Maiduguri by Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma, Yobe State, where it set up a base called "Afghanistan", used to attack nearby police outposts, killing police officers.  I wonder why these cretins that authored this piece of garbage have chosen to neglect these facts.

members of Boko Haram are not enemy combatants, where human rights and the rule of law can be dispensed with

Yes, they are enemy combatants you dumb piece of shyt!. . .If i were a military administrator, any gene traced to them will be made dead in minutes, not minding if that turns the entire Borno into a damn morgue!
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 11:19pm On Jul 05, 2011
Ileke-IdI:

4 young minds wasting their time sending messages to a blind, deaf and voiceless presi-demented.



Wat a statement to make about our President. If u look properly sef u will find your 4 young minds are Boko Haram Stooge.  GEJ is one of the most intelligent President Nigeria had beside Azikiwe and the most unpredictable man to assume the presidency.

Rest assured dat Boko Haram and their sponsor will be dealt with as soon as the international community find their operation no longer acceptable dey all pay dearly. We are getting to that point amean the UK spy chief is raising alarm that the north will be made terror capital.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by aljharem3: 11:21pm On Jul 05, 2011
Calculia:

Wat a statement to make about our President. If u look properly sef u will find your 4 young minds are Boko Haram Stooge.  GEJ is one of the most intelligent President Nigeria had beside Azikiwe and the most unpredictable man to assume the presidency. Rest assured dat Boko Haram and their sponsor will be dealt with as soon as the international community find their operation no longer acceptable dey all pay dearly. We are getting to that point amean the UK spy chief is raising alarm that the north will be made  terror capital.

silly stu.pid statement

we had OBJ, IBB and Buhari before GEJ who were a lot smarter than him
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 11:23pm On Jul 05, 2011
Calculia:

Wat a statement to make about our President. If u look properly sef u will find your 4 young minds are Boko Haram Stooge.  GEJ is one of the most intelligent President Nigeria had beside Azikiwe and the most unpredictable man to assume the presidency.

Rest assured dat Boko Haram and their sponsor will be dealt with as soon as the international community find their operation no longer acceptable dey all pay dearly. We are getting to that point amean the UK spy chief is raising alarm that the north will be made terror capital.


1. Define "smart" in your own state of mind, what does it mean to you pertaining to a president?

2. List the "most intelligent", "intelligent" and "not so intelligent" president NIgeria has had so far.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 11:29pm On Jul 05, 2011
alj_harem:

silly stu.pid statement

we had OBJ, IBB and Buhari before GEJ who were a lot smarter than him

OBJ, IBB and Buhari never went to university or attained a doctorate Degree for one. The policies dey instituted in their time in Office were catastrophic to the development of Nigeria infant industry and cost of living. No country can develop being independent on everything foreign.

GEJ is the only President so far that have set out to industrialise Nigeria nad develop our own industrial base for export to other countries. Don.t make stupid statements again. grin
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by aljharem3: 11:31pm On Jul 05, 2011
Calculia:

OBJ, IBB and Buhari never went to university or attained a doctorate Degree for one. The policies dey instituted in their time in Office were catastrophic to the development of Nigeria infant industry and cost of living. No country can develop being independent on everything foreign.

GEJ is the only President so far that have set out to industrialise Nigeria nad develop our own industrial base for export to other countries. Don.t make silly statements again. grin

so the measure of inteligence is by going to university shocked

ok i don hear
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 11:33pm On Jul 05, 2011
Calculia:

OBJ, IBB and Buhari never went to university or attained a doctorate Degree for one. The policies dey instituted in their time in Office were catastrophic to the development of Nigeria infant industry and cost of living. No country can develop being independent on everything foreign.

GEJ is the only President so far that have set out to industrialise Nigeria nad develop our own industrial base for export to other countries. Don.t make silly statements again. grin

This is your idea of "smartness"?

Robert Green Ingersoll quotes :

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense


GEJ might have education (which is worth nothing), but where is his common sense? How has a degree in zoology helped Nigeria in the past 1 year? What moves has he made to show he has any common sense?
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Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 11:37pm On Jul 05, 2011
Ileke-IdI:


1. Define "smart" in your own state of mind, what does it mean to you pertaining to a president?

2. List the "most intelligent", "intelligent" and "not so intelligent" president NIgeria has had so far.

Smart in my own state of mind is a person that has the benefit of hindsight. Pertaining to a president this should be manifest within the parameter of sustainable development measurable in the HDI formular and PPP. (figure wat that is urself)

The most intelligent President so far is undoubtedly Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe besides him the rest have been about self gain. I am waiting to equate the performance of GEJ.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 11:47pm On Jul 05, 2011
Calculia:

Smart in my own state of mind is a person that has the benefit of hindsight. Pertaining to a president this should be manifest within the parameter of sustainable development measurable in the HDI formular and PPP. (figure wat that is urself)

The most intelligent President so far is undoubtedly Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe besides him the rest have been about self gain. I am waiting to equate the performance of GEJ.


In GEJ's one year (and more) as an [i]imposed [/i]president of Nigeria's citizens, how has GEJ done to show he has or has been any of the above description you posted?
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 11:52pm On Jul 05, 2011
Ileke-IdI
GEJ might have education (which is worth nothing), but where is his common sense? How has a degree in zoology helped Nigeria in the past 1 year? What moves has he made to show he has any common sense?

I will never say education is worth nothing because dat is untrue. As for common sense, I think he has plenty of it to have come from a minority group and be elected President in a ethnocentric country like ours. Nigeria as an entity is without common sense if u ask me to be honest.

Did we not elect a zoologist to be our President from a minority group?? You ask me how a degree in zoology has helped Nigeria in the past year but openly supported his presidency in the past year, who is lacking common sense now? About wat move he has made to show he has any common sense now at least he hasn't  fallen into any trap of his adversaries such as boko haram rather dey are slowly digging all their early grave.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 12:04am On Jul 06, 2011
Calculia:

I will never say education is worth nothing because dat is untrue. As for common sense, I think he has plenty of it to have come from a minority group and be elected President in a ethnocentric country like ours. Nigeria as an entity is without common sense if u ask me to be honest.

Did we not elect a zoologist to be our President from a minority group?? You ask me how a degree in zoology has helped Nigeria in the past year but openly supported is presidency in the past year, who is lacking common sense now? About wat move he has made to show he has any common sense now at least he hasn't  fallen into any trap of his adversaries such as boko haram rather dey are slowly digging all their early grave.

He had an opportunity to be elected president, and neither should he be applauded from coming from a minority group.
Propaganda surrounded his whole election which gained him the grounds to become a president. He was not elected as a president based on the skills and intelligence he potentially possessed, but he won because of the whole emotional-string tied to this election.

1. When our former president suddenly died, this gave GEJ an opportunity above all others to take the seat.

2. The whole "change" propaganda, esp the one brought to America (Obama's change) was still bright in Nigerians' mind, which made people believed that GEJ could dig NIgeria out of its hole being that he's not one of the big 3s (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa).

3. Igbos are emotional attracted to him because they were promised 2015. Not sure how this is possible since NIgeria is a democratic state, people elect the president. Nigeria is not in a state where power should be handed over because of the color of the skin. And oh yea, they also want to believe he's Igbo.


Nigerians voted on propaganda, not on intelligence or skills.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 12:04am On Jul 06, 2011
BTW, you've not yet told us how you came by GEJ's description.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 12:15am On Jul 06, 2011
Ileke-IdI:

He had an opportunity to be elected president, and neither should he be applauded from coming from a minority group.
Propaganda surrounded his whole election which gained him the grounds to become a president. He was not elected as a president based on the skills and intelligence he potentially possessed, but he won because of the whole emotional-string tied to this election.

1. When our former president suddenly died, this gave GEJ an opportunity above all others to take the seat.

2. The whole "change" propaganda,  esp the one brought to America (Obama's change) was still bright in Nigerians' mind, which made people believed that GEJ could dig NIgeria out of its hole being that he's not one of the big 3s (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa).

3. Igbos [/b]are emotional attracted to him because they were promised 2015. Not sure how this is possible since NIgeria is a democratic state, people elect the president. Nigeria is not in a state where power should be handed over because of the color of the skin. And oh yea, they also want to believe he's[b] Igbo.


Nigerians voted on propaganda, not on intelligence or skills.


Somehow, i was able to interact with you with out mentioning tribes but Yorubas are just full of this tribal thing particularly with regards to Igbo. Obj and yorubas were ecstatic about GEJ because it presented an opportunity to marginalize the Igbo from wat rightful should be their attempt in all efforts to solve the problem that plague us all as a nation.

Yet the Igbo are not complaining that dey were excluded and denied the right to rule their own country, happily we went along with your GEJ now it is not working like u planned and again u are calling the Igbos. If u hate us dat much why not just split the country and have your Oduduwa Republic and let have Biafra. We were never an entity not until the British came along.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 12:20am On Jul 06, 2011
Calculia:


Somehow, i was able to interact with you with out mentioning tribes but Yorubas are just full of this tribal thing particularly with regards to Igbo. Obj and yorubas were ecstatic about GEJ because it presented an opportunity to marginalize the Igbo from wat rightful should be their attempt in all efforts to solve the problem that plague us all as a nation.

Yet the Igbo are not complaining that dey were excluded and denied the right to rule their own country, happily we went along with your GEJ now it is not working like u planned and agin u are calling the Igbos. If u hate us dat much why not just split the country and have your Oduduwa Republic and let have Biafra. We were never an entity not until the British came along. 

You're overdoing things, erase sentiments from this. I seriously do not have the time.

Yes or no, was Ndigbo not part of the propaganda that voted in GEJ?

This is not about being tribal, this is answering your previous post that had to do with GEJ being intelligent because he's from a MINORITY tribe and still became president. Minority or maxority has nothing to do with it. I was simply explaining how the whole election was a case of canned propaganda.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Calculia: 12:33am On Jul 06, 2011
Ileke-IdI:

You're overdoing things, erase sentiments from this. I seriously do not have the time.

Yes or no, was Ndigbo not part of the propaganda that voted in GEJ?

This is not about being tribal, this is answering your previous post that had to do with GEJ being intelligent because he's from a MINORITY tribe and still became president. Minority or maxority has nothing to do with it. I was simply explaining how the whole election was a case of canned propaganda. 


NO! Yoruba's were the author and finisher of election. All their media outlet did the work becos of the fear of Igbo.
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 12:56am On Jul 06, 2011
Calculia:


NO! Yoruba's were the author and finisher of election. All their media outlet did the work becos of the fear of Igbo.

You're still posting from sentiments and lack of facts.

Are you saying the Yorubas control all Nigeria's newspaper or are you saying that Yorubas are the only authors Nigeria has got?
Re: Boko Haram: Borno State Citizens Appeal To Jonathan by Nobody: 3:40am On Jul 06, 2011
i am suprised to find so much Igbo/Yoruba bickering on a boko 'harm a ton' thread. Why?

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