For Those Who Have Ears to Hear


By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor


I won’t write about Nigeria as a journalist. I am known in Nigeria as a national security specialist with decades of experience there.

I have close personal friends at the highest levels of government and only write these few words out of deep concern.

For those reading the news about Africa, both of you, Nigeria is under terrorist attack and preparing military operations against a group called Boko Haram, an Islamic group from the North, more accurately centered in Niger, a nation to the north, a cesspool of international intrigue.

From Veterans Today’s London correspondent, a specialist on African affairs:

From Veterans Today’s London correspondent, a specialist on African affairs:


Jonathan Goodluck

The article was well written and thoroughly researched although it didn’t go far enough in identifying dealing with the greed of certain establishment figures that may directly or indirectly be involved in some of the atrocities committed by Boko Haram.

1. The security of the presidency and the entire nation has been greatly compromised by the activities of certain individuals very close to the presidency.
2. It is common knowledge that the president of Nigeria is not protected at all and you can get at him at any time in or out of his residence.
3. The security around him is a joke to say the least, contrary to the views of certain individuals around the president.
4. The issues of government by settlement which had long plagued Nigeria are the orders of the day now where certain individuals are asking for colossal sums of money from certain securithas been known to collect huge sums of money from these outfits currently parading themselves as security consultants in Abuja.

6. The level of cover and protection given the president and his family is simply laughable and nonexistent
Why has the country been compromised
It is widely known that certain foreign elements are providing security to the president and providing his current security details.
What a joke, you might say. These same foreign elements are the same who have sold outdated equipment to the government and are going around Abuja installing CCTV and bomb detection equipment around the capitol, technology decades old.
Huge sums of money have changed hands for second rate equipment
The government pays for a Rolls Royce car but gets a VW Beetle instead!!
Why is there so much fear and apprehension among Nigerians that the government can no longer protect its citizens?

What are the costs expended so far on security equipment and the so called security consultants?
Why have certain individuals collected bribe money to award these security contracts at over inflated figures?
Now, this is one example of several of how corruption is endemic and goes to the heart of government.
You may wonder who stands to benefit from these contracts at the expense of the security of the president, the presidency and the nation.
The answers to these questions lies within the presidency itself because of the acts of these individuals in the last few weeks.
There are no real interests to control the activities of Boko Haram because of the vested interests of certain foreign governments in collusion with their agents in the present administration and the country.
To some in government, this is another tool to control certain individuals.
Most Nigerians are cowards, anyway. Kill a few “Nigerians,” “Christians” and make it look like christianity against Islam to provoke a reaction from Nigerians.
If you get no reaction, kill a few more or go after prime targets to grab headlines.
Again, you may ask yourself, who stands to gain when there are terror scares in the country?
Nigerians are highly intelligent and resourceful people and can put an immediate end to all of these happenings when their own status is on the line and their livelihood is at stake or threatened.

Nigeria has not gotten to that point yet but may soon reach the point of no return.
Sources within the Intel community have confirmed that Boko Haram is getting Intel assistance from senior Nigerian intelligence officials.
To these officials, this is a means to an end.
The danger here is that a monster has been created which sooner or later may go out of control of their political masters.
Certain people are benefiting financially from the current security situation in the country, from inflated security contracts.
One such individual from within the presidency recently placed orders from a North American and Middle East country located near Tel Aviv.
What is the cost of a Nigerian life (Mr.) and how much is it worth to you sir?
This is the public version of things anyway. However, outside forces are at play, concerns “from afar” best described in a fictional context.

H. G. Wells described it best in his science fiction novel, War of the Worlds.

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter…
It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days…Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious

There is now, nor has there ever been an organized “pan-Islamic” terrorist presence in Yemen though one has been “simulated” through misleading reports, “false flag” terror and a theatre of “counter-terrorist” activities, drone attacks and such, for no purpose other than to provide a base of operations for a global criminal enterprise.

What we are seeing now in Nigeria is part of the same strategy, one that has included attacks on a physical scale, currency manipulation and now a staged move against Africa, which will be combined with attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities of the Arab Spring, new players, new governments and new greed.

Key Nigerians ripe for bribery are making this possible. They are aware they are bringing about the destruction of their own nation, they simply don’t care. The attitude there is “every man for himself.” Another way of describing those currently in power, including and especially officials in counter-terrorism and security is “rats abandoning a sinking ship.”
In all fairness, the U.S. has a similar elitist clique of politicians, special interest multi-nationals, some of whom have their own intelligence resources that rival most countries.