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BUSTED: Saudi Arabia, Qatar allegedly funding Boko Haram terrorist organization

By Nwafor Sunday
Facts have occurred of the people sponsoring the dreaded terrorist oganisation, ‘Boko Haram’ in Nigeria. It has been proven that Boko Haram is allegedly being funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The statement by Nicephore Soglo, former president of Benin Republic, at the constitutional term limits summit, covered by TheCable, in Naimey, Niger Republic, revealed that friends from Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the ones sponsoring Boko Haram.

Soglo said, “Boko Haram is funded by our friends from Saudi Arabia and our friends from Qatar. Are we friends or not? Let’s tell ourselves the truth. We have to stand together. “I’m optimistic we are going to win if we stand together.”

How Boko Haram started

The terrorist organization started in 2009. The 2009 Boko Haram uprising was a conflict between Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, and Nigerian security forces. Violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria resulted in more than 1,000 dead, with around 700 killed in the city of Maiduguri alone.

The group has killed thousands of Nigerians in Bauchi State, Maiduguri, Borno State, Potiskum, Yobe State, Wudil, Kano State and other states in the country.
They are derailing and destabilizing the peace of the country and has made Nigerian government to spend millions of dollars in equipping her soldiers to combat the organization.

However, countries like United states of America, Togo, Benin Republic and others have formed alliance with the Nigerian government in the fight against terrorism, which undoubtedly is bedeviling the growth and development of the country.

A statement by Donald Trump, US president, led credence to the above statement. “Nigeria is among our strongest partners in Africa. We share common goals of expanding trade and growing our economic relationship.

We are allies in the global battle against terrorism, and we want to see Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa (ISWAP) driven out of the region and other insurgencies like them dismantled”, Trump said in a congratulating statement to Nigeria @59.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari’s major campaign promise, was to fight terrorism to its barest minimum.

Buhari had in 2018 ordered immediate procurement of critical equipments for the armed forces in line with the Federal Government policy of purchasing such items from the original manufacturers on government-to- government basis.

The president also directed the enhancement of the welfare of troops, particularly those serving in operational areas within the country.

A promise he is trying to maintain, inspite distractions from other sectors.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/busted-saudi-arabia-qatar-funding-boko-haram-terrorist-organization/

Good to know... Hope it's a catchy song

Imo is Unsafe for Criminals, Kudos to the Security agencies for rising to duty. We must create and build an Imo where people can move freely without any harassment or molestation by criminals. We must all join hand to make the dream of a Crime free Imo a reality. Kudos to His Excellency, the Due Process and capacity Governor

Chikpat:
The question is: if there was no rain, no flood, no erosion, would the road have failed by now?

The answer is yes

I am happy for him as a Nigerian but also sad as a Chelsea fan

Chikpat:
This is not a man made problem

Are you for real? Ain't you seeing the quality of the road

The Evil that Rochas did is now living with him!

This is a road in ogboko Ideator that leads to the house of the immediate past governor of Imo state and the current senator of orlu zone owelle Rochas Okorocha.

Elliot2:
Shut up! They look alike,just like I do with Timaya. Check my profile.

You must be a slow poke.... Look closely they don't resemble

See her filthy armpit

Jo'el 2 face wannabe... They don't resemble, just that he's trying so hard to look like 2 face

George Moghalu is the most selfish and foolish person I've ever seen, I came to this conclusion after watching him on AIT where he was busing defending the indefensible and how he stupidly said Igbos don't deserve any post or appointment from this present administration

saintkash:
Democracy not in danger but wait for APC to win in any state, democracy will not only be in danger but very dangerous

APC has been winning and nobody is complaining

Watched a movie based on this story

Lol.....Madrid might not make it out of the group state the way things are going

somehow:
LOL You just exposed yourself. Disappear abeg

How did I expose myself?

somehow:
Indigene? Which town are his parents from in Edo state? which village? what is their compound name?

I know he's from Ohiomwon lga but I don't know his particular village

omenka:
You are a bloody LIAR!! No such places exist in Apa!

Shame on you.

Lol you don't know anything even the benue state you claimed to come from you don't know.

There's a church at Apa Ogbozu called saint Charles Catholic Church, go and make your research and stop being Ignoramus

Afam4eva:
Yes.

That's practically impossible

Afam4eva:
In some parts of Oguta, they speak Hausa.

Hausa as their indigenous language?

somehow:
You're not making sense, you claimed he bears Ifeanyi, so he must be igbo. I then ask if you bear Bruce, does that make you an English man?

Hope this is self-explanatory?

If I happened to have Bruce as my name that would be my English name not native name, in the case of Ifeanyi my friend his native name is Ifeanyi and his English name is Destiny and he is an indigene of Edo State

somehow:
So because he bears Igbo name, that part automatically becomes Igbo? Do you have english name?

Yes of course, I am from Igbo imagine me bearing idemudia as my Igbo native name.... Would that make sense to you?

midnighter:
Yes and they even complain that people don't make an effort to include them in Igbo matters

Exactly.. I have a Facebook friend that's from there and her name is Onyi Nwa****li, the day she told me that she's from Benue state I doubted her, it took me a while before I was convinced

omenka:
Can you tell me THE PART OF OJU, OBI or ADO occupied by indigenous Igbos? I'd like to be enlightened.

Please dont disappear o, answer the question.

Thanks in anticipation.

Umuezeokoha,
Apa Ogbozu, Umuezeoka, Oriuzor, Umuoghara, Amaekka, Amaezekwe

The above mentioned communities are all in Benue state

omenka:
There is NOWHERE in Benue state where Igbo is predominantly spoken. You guys should stop spreading inaccurate information.

You have a good number of them as traders in Otukpo, Makurdi, Gboko and parts of Gwer East. They arent indigenous to any part of Benue state.

There are indigenous Igbos in Benue State particularly in Ado, Oju, Obi and Okpoku LGAs of Beneu state

BuhariAdvocate:
You’re a liar we are not speak Igbo or bearing Igbo name.

Shut the Bleep down... My friend from edo State bears Ifeanyi which is his native name

Nigeria at 59

By Stanley Chidozie Imo

The United Arab Emirates was formed in 1971. Their own national day is December 2nd, 1971. That was the day the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah came together and formed the United Arab Emirates with its capital in Abu Dhabi. The last emirate to be admitted into the union was Ras Al Khaimah. That was on 10th February, 1972. The eighth emirate would have been Oman but they opted out at the last minute. All these happened about 48 years ago. That was long after the independence of Nigeria.

Today the United Arab Emirates is the eight wonder of the world while Nigeria is a shadow of itself. The seven emirates that make up the UAE have competitively developed in such a way that there isn't much difference among them. The first time I went to UAE was in 2011. I first went to Sharjah. I stayed at the Sharjah Palace Hotel. When I looked out of my window on the 18th floor of the hotel I marvelled at the kind of development that was going on in the emirate. I later went to Dubai and discovered that more development was going on over there. On my subsequent visits I took time to tour the emirates. I asked questions and discovered that the secret of their competitive development is the fact that their founding fathers entrenched and practiced true federalism. The different emirates are allowed to develop at their own pace. The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the big brother with more oil resources. But their brand of Islam is more fundamental than what you will see in Dubai. The most popular emirate is Dubai and their brand of Islamism is very liberal.

The whole world comes to Dubai. The Dubai International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world today. It has four huge terminals. The first terminal plays host to almost all the international airlines from all over the world every day. The 2nd terminal is for domestic flights. The 3rd terminal is for Emirates Airlines only. While the brand new 4th terminal is for A380 aircrafts only. Abu Dhabi and Sharjah have their own International Airports. Currently, Airpeace flights from Nigeria land at Sharjah International Airport. The UAE has at least two standard airlines. The Emirates Airline belongs to Dubai while Etihad Airways belongs to Abu Dhabi. These two airlines can compete with any airline in the world today. The Emirates Airline started in 1985 with a fleet of less than 10 aircrafts. As at that time the Nigerian Airways had a larger fleet of aircrafts than Emirates Airline. Today the Nigerian Airways does not exist while the Emirates Airline has a fleet of 256 aircrafts that are in active service. This fleet consists of 112 pieces of Airbus A380-800, 10 pieces of Boeing 777-200LR and 134 pieces Boeing 777-300ER. Meanwhile the airline has placed an order for 231 new aircrafts which will all be delivered before 2024. The cost of one A380 aircraft is about 450 million dollars. There is no airline in Nigeria that has more than 20 aircrafts in active service.

The Airpeace Airline has only 20 aircrafts that are in service. Most of the Nigerian airlines use tokunboh aircrafts of the Boeing 737 model. Etihad Airways, which belongs to Abu Dhabi, has a fleet of about 113 aircrafts in service. They have also placed an order for about 200 more aircrafts to be delivered in the next 4 years. The most painful aspect of this narrative is that the UAE is not a big country. They have a population of about 10 million people most of whom are immigrants. Their land mass is about 84,000 square kilometres most of which are desert. They don't have rivers and neither do they have much rain fall. You can stay up to three years in the UAE without seeing rain fall. Apart from oil, they don't have much of any other natural resource.

But look at Nigeria. We are blessed with everything but still we are not making progress. We have a population of about 200 million people. We didn't plan for this population and we are not making use of the population We have a land mass of about 924,000 square kilometres. We have water and other natural resources. But for the last 59 years we've been incompetently fumbling with nation building. In our incompetent and dishonest bid to build a united country we ended up dragging ourselves down. All the steps we took since after the Nigerian civil war have become our albatross. In our bid to keep Nigeria as one united country we ended shooting ourselves in the leg. We destroyed the understanding our founding fathers had at Independence. We allowed ourselves to be carried away and obliterate the terms of the union which our founding fathers negotiated and agreed after a series constitutional conferences that took place in Lagos, Ibadan and London. In that process we totally forgot that unity, just like respect and love, cannot be legislated. Rather it happens naturally and can only be nurtured by positive actions. You can't force people to be united or love themselves. Rather you can create the enabling environment that will engender peace, unity and love.

That enabling environment can only exist when you have the right constitutional framework. Just like they did in the UAE. The constitution was not imposed on the country. Rather the emirates came together and agreed on the terms of the union. Even the Americans did a similar thing in 1787 in Philadelphia.

Anything less than this will amount to paying lip service to nation building and things will continue to deteriorate. It is not yet late. We can still salvage Nigeria.

**Mr. Stanley Chidozie Imo is the 1st Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association**

therealakuko:
Ross Barkley? Nigerian?

Partly Nigerian.... His grandfather is Nigerian

His comment is quite shameful

Jwonder:
Story, all his cars are still parked in his garage!

For real? If so, then he's loaded