₦airaland Forum

Good morning.

This piece is meant for those of us who happen to be too naïve and ignorant to criticise the current government for saying they are "open to negotiations with Boko Haram".

I read on the thread concerning the subject matter the comments of some members in response HungerBad's comment especially that of Emeritus85 who stated "but Americans don't negotiate with terrorists". The only reason why people think American government doesn't negotiate with terrorists is because Hollywood made them believe they don't, whereas American government in reality might have engaged in negotiations and talks with terrorists, rebel groups and other non-state actors more than any other government on earth.

Just recently, a deal was reached between Washington and the Taliban for the release of a US soldier who's been held in captivity:

he nation's top military leaders offered their unanimous support for last month's return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdah from Taliban captivity in exchange for the release of five Taliban-affiliated detainees at Guantanamo Bay rebutting critics who said the swap wasn't worth it, or that it would set a dangerous precedent.

www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-joint-chiefs-unanimously-supported-bowe-bergdahl-prisoner-swap/

This isn't Hollywood, this is reality!

Let us go a step further. A couple of years back, Israel, the closest US ally, (so close a US Congressman referred to her as "America's 51st state!" agreed to a prisoner swap with Hamas, a group labelled as terrorist group by both countries, that saw to the release of over 1000 Palestinians for 1 Israeli soldier, Gillard Shalit. Though Israel, we agree, is a sovereign state, anyone conversant with her relationship with the US would know the deal wouldn't have been made without some form of nod from Washington: www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111017221258366393.html

At the risk of making the post verbose, I'd like to refer you guys to this link which is a compendium of some of the deals that have been brokered between the US and some violent/terrorist groups : foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/03/the-u-s-does-negotiate-with-terrorists/

The US does negotiate with terrorists when it suits them to do so. The cost of an endless war is too much for a state to bear, hence they are constantly in search of ways to arrive at a peaceful resolution of such situations in the shortest time possible. It is the norm across the world. Nigeria isn't an exception.

In the past, Jonathan's administration had sought out ways of negotiating with Boko Haram, the only problem was that time and again, their negotiations fell through:

Nigerians were ecstatic on October 17 when the federal government announced a ceasefire deal with Boko Haram. If it had been true, years of ruthless killing of several thousand citizens would have been halted - suddenly - and the over-200 Chibok girls kidnapped seven months ago would have been freed. www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/11/nigeria-fake-ceasefire-with-b-20141111103442243308.html. edition.cnn.com/2014/10/17/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-ceasefire/

Who has forgotten the overtures made by Obasanjo, with approval from the government, at bringing the group to a round table?? These are but incidences that were public knowledge- what about all that happen behind the scenes?

It is only fair that we support this government in finding a lasting solution to this problem which seems to have defied a military approach for too long. We can sit behind out computers and criticise all we want but those who suffer a direct impact of the group's activities, including the families of our fallen heroes, understand the imperatives of solving the crises once and for all (I know some would call me a hypocrite, but I never criticised Jonathan's government's desire to negotiate). We can't shoot or bomb our way out of this situation- if talking can solve the problem, so be it.

Remember, the cost of peace is the price for a war not fought.


Cc: Lalasticlala.

luvinhubby:
Oh boy you no dey sleep?

I just dey type the above msg to you only to see say you don hit me first.

@luvinhubby, I thought you were married with kids. What are you doing on nairaland at a time like this? Or did you travel away from family?

Oya, type the words that is typical of those from your end so we can read and laugh.

I hope the deal includes the aforementioned relinquishing their positions so the party's decision can hold sway.

My Paddy don jogodo!!

The jobs Jonathan created are as imaginary as the people who gave him 50% of the votes he got in the last election that saw his bum booted out of Abuja.

Our God is indeed a merciful God. I keep wondering what would have happened to this continent had we been faced with such conditions as Tsunamis, severe wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, giant twisters, etc.

gbl01:
The problem is that you don't listen to others and you don't listen to yourself. You're just a despicable fool who believe you're always right. Meanwhile you sink in your folly.



If you'll advise someone to put on hold for 3years coz of an election, you'll rather tell him to drop it completely.

No man is condemned guilty until proven.. GEJ may have said or done that but since its not confirmed, only an I.d.I.of like you will confirm judgement without proof and quick yo exonerate your god.

Look dude, I don't give a damn abt GEJ or PMB but learn to use your head, its not supposed to be empty.

ok

gbl01:
Someone advised him in 2012 for reelection of 2015? After winning and election a year earlier? Are you really like this?

I'm not accusing anybody of lies, but advising you to think through events and sometimes keep quiet when details are sektchy or confusing.

You sound acutely naïve politically. You think advising someone over an election to be held in 3years time is too early?? Do you know manoeuvres for the next elections begin just after the conclusion of an election?? Did you hear a HoR member say on Channels that "whether we like it or not, the race for 2019 has already begun"??

I thought I was even talking to someone else.

Mbok, have a nice day. Believe what you may and leave me to mine. I have that much right.

The President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria (GCFR) takes no order from nobody and is NOT going to relocate them, period.

Whoever has a problem with the decision can relocate self and extended family to Somalia.

By the way, they forgot to add an ultimatum to the order.

#WailingWailers.

gbl01:
Not holding brief for GEJ. But he signed a deal in 2012 a year after winning an election and did not implement it because of another election 3years later?

Whoever coin this accusation seems dumb.

@Omenka, sometimes think critically before you attack others

Oh please, spare me all that twaddle. Someone advised him doing so might hurt his chances of re-election by denying him votes from the SE. He didn't carry it out not for its propriety of otherwise, he did out of selfish political reasons.

Are we now saying Obiano, who seems to be the most performing South Eastern governor, is now a liar simply because this expose hurts Jonathan?? Why would Obiano lie about it??

gbl01:
Your hate knows no bound. Unfortunately, you're the wailing wailer, you wail at any news ApC or PDP. The TAN guys even pick their fights, you dont. You just wail at any political news.


Grow up dude.

ok

egift:
Your great-grand children will still be Nigerians. We do not want any Mexico beside the "United States" of Nigeria

Our country Nigeria is the giant of Africa!

Rotflmao! Na wa oo!

And the WailingWailers wouldn't know it's a parody account just like Obj's and IBB's.

9niceguy:
Especially those that sell food in wuse 2. And tax force are not helping them at all

I dey tell you. I really feel for these guys.

sameer1212:
Damn! This is really Sad. May the perpetrators be catch and dealt with (Amin). RIP to the dead.

Na wa oo!!! E for even better pass if you type "catched".

Princewill1:
Another reason why we need Biafra.

So when we agitate for Biafra,no Baboon should vomit trash!!

Wow this is a reason because someone from a different ethnic group killed a "biafran" huh?? Don't "biafrans" kill "biafrans"

You guys make the agitation look silly when you paint it in such colours.

May God Almighty rest the souls of the departed, amen. Horrible incident indeed.

lawanson44:
[s]All i know is that if Knockout blasts in Anambra, this country will burn! Even if it means killing Obiano, Peter Obi, and Dullardhino all together![/s]

I bet you'd burn the country through typing from behind a computer. Smh.

Go take lectures from Asari. He promised hell if we don't return Jonathan. When last did we hear him ranting??

#WailingWailer.

May God continue to expose the WailingWailers time after time, amen.

I wish they could leak the paperworks of this transfer duly signed by that Fedora Drunk so all these internet tribal warlords/e-Wailers can shut their trap once and for all.

I can still hear the echo of the Drunk's voice during his shameful tasteless interview with Amanpour when he said "we should not play politics with Boko Haram". Just look at this now.

What a shameless hypocrite.


#SleepWhereAreYou!!!

MissGdope:
You have both?

Errrm, got any problem with that

belzabull:
you are a capital DUNCE!

why don't you compare dulllarpo's 10 appointments so far with that of Jonathan and let's see the ethnicity of the appointees and then we can tell who is more ethnocentric between the two.

Is it a crime if you talk reasonably sometimes, or must you always prove that you are a slowpoke?

TMHWP . I see some hair between your teeth. Tell me, what you been up to you little beeeyach?

owobokiri:
You are one ijiot on steroids. You see igbo nightmares on every thread. Jonathan said so? So what!? Because he was refering to igbos, thats why you eternally paranoid bunch of primodial thinkers went up in arms?? Your buhari went to Oyo during his campaigned and openly told yorubas that just with their votes and that of the north, the election is worn. That is not devisive enough? Follow jonsthan to the the grave if o like, to all discerning minds, jonathan is. The most detrabls leader to run this country, post 190. Obasanjo our tribal hero was boasting about1970 is war exploits on NTA, but he is still your Mr Perfect
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You should have stopped crying before typing. #TyningWailingWailer.

calyb247:
Personally i dont see anything wrong with it. The DG SSS is a special secret security agent that must be trusted by the C-I-C/ CSO of the country not minding his/her geopolitical zone or ethnicity... PMB feels more comfortable with Lawal Daura the same way other Presidentd did with thier DGs SSS... Nigerians should stop bringing sentiments into every single action.. Na these Ijaw pple cme bring this mumu ethnic politics come this country.

Jonathan brought this curse upon us. It was the only currency with which he traded his political merchandises.

That man makes me sick!

HungerBAD:
There is a God in Heaven. May God continue to cause confusion anywhere PDP members are gathered.

After sixteen years of leading us aimlessly in the wilderness, God did not only make them lose the elections. Now they are fighting among themselves, even while at the losing corner.

pathetic.

The party of WailingWailers should just perish and never resurrect anymore, amen.

All these things we are witnessing today are the fruits of the seeds of discord sown by Jonathan. Jonathan as a president had nothing going for him upstairs so he banked primarily on ethnoreligious sentiments for his political survival.

Jonathan was criminally ethnocentric. How could the president of a country as diverse as Nigeria come out in public to blurt- Igbos are the backbone of my administration!! What kind of idiotic and divisive statement is that?? Then he went around the country with the CAN president in tow as though he were some form of presidential aide.

I keep regretting the day jonathan happened to this country. Such a badluck.

ionsman:
Baba carry go. Keep changing this country whilst some people will keep wailing.

Absolutely. They can keep wailing for all we care.

ihustler:
So where is the change from the norm that was preached then by the Pro-GMB group?

The Change isn't about appointments, it is about the standard of living of Nigerians as influenced by such indices as Security, healthcare, infrastructure, education, etc. Stop being clever by half.

Femistico:
soo wat do u expect us to do now...


Next pls

He wants you people to stop crying elephant where there is none.

Seriously, a part of me wants Buhari to appoint every single member of his cabinet from his village and let us see the worst the WailingWailers could do besides Wailing as usual.

Nonsense.