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| Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 10:43am On Oct 07, 2015 |
Last Friday’s bomb blasts in Abuja that claimed no
fewer than 20 lives and scores of injured people
must be seen as the handiwork of the architects of
terror. More significantly, the explosions represent
the last kicks of a disorganised Boko Haram, a
terror group that has been decimated by the
superior firepower of the armed forces and security
agencies. Ever since Boko Haram militants were
dislodged by soldiers from their forest hideouts in
the north, the members have been looking to
regroup as they search for new places of abode.
Boko Haram is desperate. The terror group is
approaching a breaking point. The more distressed
the leaders become, the more suicidal and
audacious their actions are likely to become. Sadly,
while leaders of the evil organisation recruit,
brainwash, and radicalise teenagers to carry out
suicide bombings on the false assurance that they
will receive their reward in heaven, the same
leaders make conscious efforts to safeguard their
own lives so they can continue to enjoy life to the
maximum. That is the paradox of Boko Haram’s
ideology and weird religious practices. They
misinform and delude vulnerable youth in our
society on the basis of a crank religious creed and
false promises. Why can’t Boko Haram leaders
make haste to take their own lives so they can
quickly receive their so-called reward in heaven?
The leaders of Boko Haram are approaching their
twilight. Some of the famished and distraught
members are handing themselves in to security
agents. Other members and their leaders are on
the run, as they try to evade capture by soldiers.
They have tried every trick and failed. Suicide
bombing has become the evil organisation’s
preferred way of sending a message of fear.
Boko Haram is running out of options. Soldiers have
smoked them out from their forest hiding places
and now the terrorists have resorted to using
teenage suicide bombers to create the impression
they are not suffering casualties in the war front. It
is all a smokescreen. The fact is that Boko Haram
militants have been dislodged from their previous
impenetrable Sambisa Forest hideouts. Now, they
have dispersed across the northern states and are
engaging in hit-and-run bomb explosions to create
the impression they are still a formidable and
organised terror group. That is no longer the case
and the soldiers chasing them understand that
sporadic bomb explosions are what civil society
can expect from a terrorist organisation that has
nowhere to hide, to regroup, or to strategise.
The public should expect more of these irregular
bomb explosions until the remnants of the terror
group have been rounded up or obliterated. The
armed forces and state security agents need time,
patience, and determination to see through this last
phase of the campaign to drive away the terror
group that used the northern states as the bastion
of their evil operations and machinations.
In his official response to the Abuja bomb blasts,
President Muhammadu Buhari described the blasts
as “cowardly attacks”. He said the war between
security forces and Boko Haram militants is not
driven by ideology, no matter how quaint Boko
Haram’s philosophy might be. Buhari said: “It is
clear this battle is not ideological. It is between the
forces of peace and order and the evil forces of
murder and destruction.” He continued: “This
government is determined to stamp out Boko
Haram and all other terrorists of whatever
persuasions and bring all sponsors to justice.”
There are two or three implicit messages in Boko
Haram’s continued use of suicide bombers to cause
death, destruction, and fear. One, the organisation
wants to convey the message that even in its
disorganised state, even as the armed forces try to
demolish the remaining ragtag members of the
terror group, the insurgents still have the capacity
and a pool of teenagers ready to strike Abuja and
other strategic cities anytime and anywhere they
choose. Two, Boko Haram believes that the
continued death and destruction of civilian
population could help to strike fear into the hearts
of citizens and to show that it has the terrorists,
the weapons, and the determination continue to
embarrass the armed forces and other security forces
https://www.today.ng/blog/22341/abuja-blasts-signify-boko-harams-last-gasps/ |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 10:48am On Oct 07, 2015 |
Very very true.... Boko Haram is falling apart. However, even still, guerilla warfare can last for as long as 50 years. Just because BH is falling apart doesn't mean a rival group cannot take it's place |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by funlord(m): 10:49am On Oct 07, 2015 |
![]() I wonder why it is only" Islamic youths" they always seem to convince to go and blow themselves up like fireworks? Dem 4 come try hala me and my boys na! |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 10:52am On Oct 07, 2015 |
Last ko first ni!!! I had to check my dictionary to see of the word "last" now has a new meaning!! |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by amii131(f): 10:54am On Oct 07, 2015 |
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| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Bayswater: 11:15am On Oct 07, 2015 |
So are the Maiduguri, Yola,Taraba and Yobe bomb blasts. Nansense |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by ezeagu(m): 11:21am On Oct 07, 2015 |
Insurgency works like this: Boko Haram falls, another takes its place. If you doubt me then Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, ISIS to you. Once you do not solve the root problem of the ills (lack of education and poverty) you're always going to get live fuel for insurgency and extremism. The people who already populate Boko Haram are not extraordinary. |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by baralatie(m): 11:59am On Oct 07, 2015 |
Op! is wrong on his assertion .as long as the DSS and DMI have consistently created mistakes initiated by the hierarchy and PMB. this present states is a statement by the b.h that it has taken new positions and is capable of strike positions. God Help Nigeria! |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 9:42pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
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| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Codedb2: 10:05pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
SirWere:http://www.punchng.com/news/explosions-kill-worshippers-in-borno-mosques/ Stop this Shitty thinking |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by McKren(m): 10:16pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
chukwudi44:Ignore the mad people |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 10:29pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
IbnSultaan:http://www.punchng.com/news/explosions-kill-worshippers-in-borno-mosques/ |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by abduljabbar4(m): 10:41pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
Codedb2:Fool, when the news says a number of boko haram surrender, you say that the military claimed that boko haram has surrendered. A victory in one combat with boko haram doesn't mean that boko haram has totally been defeated. Its done in a gradual process |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Codedb2: 10:57pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
abduljabbar4:Mallam please go read ur Koran. I will help you to acknowledge them when ever they blow ur kins yash, As far as you are happy, I am. |
| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by kingbasil: 11:02pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
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| Re: Abuja Blasts Signify Boko Haram’s Last Gasps by Nobody: 11:26pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
abduljabbar4: |
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