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What's Egbesu? Nigerians Open Your Eyes! by NaMe4: 2:42pm On Dec 31, 2011
I'd advise Nigerians to open their eyes!

Something is definitely going on here and we're smarter than this!

Clearly, this is politically motivated chaos and destruction planned to be inflicted on Our Country.
What we should be making attempts to clarify is whether:

1. This is being orchestrated by our local politicians; or
2. By external forces who paln to ultimately take control of 'valuable fragments' of this Nigerian entity following the whole chaos and destruction; or
3. An original agenda of the former group, which the latter has taken advantage of.

Out of all the massacres that have occurred in some Northern parts of this Country due to sectarian crises for decades, in which thousands were murdered, even earlier this year following the presidential elections where innocent citizens were killed using machettes and hand-held weapons, why is it at this point when a  group called 'Boko Haram' (I wonder who coined that name!) carried out indiscriminate bombings on Muslims and Christians, that people in Delta State suddenly decided to start killing Muslims in their midst. And guess what! With BOMBS also!

Does that make any sense?

Tribal, Ethnic and Religious differences in Nigeria is well-known the world over.
Only well-cordinated sparks are required to initiate a self-destruct process and whoever takes advantage of such a situation would virtually take total control.  
All Nigerians regardless of Tribe, Religion or Ethnic group all have a common enemy right now, and we have to work together to get through this.

I don't know where the report of 'BH' getting widespread support from the ordinary Northern Muslim/Almajiris came from.
When the Northern Islamic leaders and political elite refuse to condemn such actions in strongest terms, do you expect the ordinary citizen in the North to risk his life protesting?
Moreover the silence of notable Northern elite over this issue points to the fact that known key politicians play roles in this menace (whether external forces are involved or not).

The approach of the FG regarding this issue is quite unencouraging. FG claimed to know sponsors and promised to publish their names, (giving citizens hope that serious investigations and tackling of this problem was underway), up till date, nada!

We, the Nigerian populace also contributed to this mess!
The level of Ethnic and Religious prejudice and bigotry amonst us is  just disgusting!

For those that don't know, the Hausa/Fulani and Kanuri are two different sets of people who don't get along that much.
When assaults were happening in Borno and recently, Yobe, not only Southerners were like 'since it stays there, that's their problem', even the Hausas were like 'these Kanuris, that's their problem!)
Who was left out to speak out or fight for those isolated people?

Now these perpetrators tried to spread their tentacles to Hausa/Fulani regions, but met very unhabitable conditions. Remember Bauchi? And even recently, Kano where members of the public assisted security forces to get rid of some of these agents of 'BH'?
That is another pointer that this spate of indiscriminate killings is not an Islamic agenda. If it was, it would have thrived in Muslim-dominated States eg Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, etc. Have you heard of 'BH' attacks on the minority Christians there?
Places that have had history of sectarian clashes are their targets: Jos, Bauchi, Kaduna
Their base: Maiduguri, Yobe  
The present gov't: F.C.T and surrounding places eg Madalla in Niger State.

Thought their main agenda was to 'Islamize' the North? What of these States largely filled with 'infidels'?: Adamawa, Taraba, Benue where occurrences of sectarian violence is usually very low or absent.
 
Remember suleja bombing (INEC Office). Okay, that was not 'BH'

Bombing of polling units in Maiduguri. Not 'BH'!

Sectarian crisis following Presidential election. Not 'BH' or its members either!

But as the present gov't's trying to settle down to business, 'BH' pops out of nowhere, deciding it's time to Islamize Nigeria! Come on! Why allow the 'Secular and UnIslamic election' take place in the first place?
Re: What's Egbesu? Nigerians Open Your Eyes! by NaMe4: 3:23pm On Dec 31, 2011
Anyway, at this stage the Country finds itself, the President has to act decisively and fast.
The options I see for this Country now:
1. C in C (GEJ) acts decisively to deal with the situation and the sponsors of 'BH'.
Indeed this serve as a form of 'revolution' as these sponsors most likely would have been a great part of the problem of this Country right from time.

2. The President does nothing substantial and the Country finally gets to a state of anarchy owing to our ignorant ethnic and religious bigotry in the form of revenge attacks (NB: this could be staged by the perpetrators as we have right now-Egbesu)

3. Nigerians get informed and enlightened that we have a common enemy on ground and work together. But if C in C decides to do nothing, we also can choose to live with the burden of the bomb blasts until it fizzles out (we've been advised by our President to embrace this one for now);

4. Due to failure of the FG to carry out any meaningful action, Nigerians may begin a 'Nigerian Spring'

5. Military take-over. Against democratic values of the West and might prompt an invasion.
Re: What's Egbesu? Nigerians Open Your Eyes! by tpia5: 3:55pm On Dec 31, 2011
The involvement of delta state in all of this IS rather fishy.

Bombs went off up north, somewhere was then bombed in delta. Then you have an edo man attempting to also blow up a church in bayelsa.

There is a bit of weirdness in all of this.

I suspect unstable elements in the midwest (old bendel) are up to something. And are being used as a front by other elements.

I love my delta peeps but i must still tell it like it is.

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