Forty nine innocent little boys were
butchered by Boko Haram in their
schools on 10th November 2014 as
they resumed class in Yobe state.
The question must be asked: is there
any limit to the depravity of these
monsters and those that secretly
support and encourage them?
I may not know much but one thing
that I know is this: the spilling of
innocent blood has terrible
consequences for both the land on
which it is spilt and for those that
spill it. I am talking about long-term
generational consequences.
This is the more so when that blood is
the blood of children. Our girls are
kidnapped from their schools,
abducted, raped, married off and sold
into slavery and we call ourselves
blessed.
Our little boys are bombed to
smithereens in their schools, their
young lives are snuffed out, there is
no sense of outrage and no-one is
brought to book yet we call
ourselves blessed.
Our level of sensitivity has been
seared to a point that we don't care
anymore and we are no longer moved
when we hear about the horrors
being inflicted on our people yet we
call ourselves blessed.
When will we appreciate the fact that
there is something fundamentally
wrong with us? I had every reason to
feel so sad on the day that the news
from Yobe came but my initial
sadness was quickly overwhelmed by
a deep and burning rage.
I was (and still am) enraged by this
latest act of pure evil and I condemn
it in the strongest terms. When I told
Nigerians three years ago that Boko
Haram and their secret sponsors and
friends had to be crushed like vermin
even if it meant wiping out whole
communities that secretly supported
them virtually everyone said that I
was wrong.
Many within and outside government
counselled that we ought to adopt a
''softly softly'' approach towards
them and disregarded my counsel.
They even subjected me to insults
and ridicule for taking such a strong
stand and such a hardline at the time.
Yet unlike them I saw the evil behind
Boko Haram long before it fully
manifested and I recognised it for
what it was right from the start. Few
others did.
The saddest aspect of it all is that
even now most Nigerians still can't
see or feel that evil despite the daily
bombings, killings, abductions and
kidnappings.
The truth is that until Boko Haram
takes over the entire north and
knocks on the gates of the south
Nigerians will continue to act as if
the whole thing is no big deal and
that whatever atrocities that Boko
Haram commit really doesn't matter.
That is how short-sighted,
insensitive, depraved and ignorant we
have become.
We are a people that have no
conscience and we no longer care
when our citizens are treated like
filth or slaughtered like flies. There
is no other country and no other
people in the world that suffers from
our particular type of affliction. We
are suffering from a strange disease.
Nigeria is not blessed, she is cursed
and she is in dire need of
deliverance. If we were not cursed
how can we act as if all is well and
how can we be normal after 49 of our
school children were bombed to
death in one fell swoop.
This single outrageous and
horrendous act is enough to
traumatise most nations and most
people for the next ten years, but not
us. Most of us are indifferent: we
shut it out and act as if it never
happened.
We are a strange land of strange men
and women. We are a land where the
nepthalim hold sway. We are a land
that enjoy to watch others suffer
injustice, persecution and
wickedness and where the youth
would rather rant on facebook and
twitter than risk their lives by
marching on the streets and
demanding change.
We are a land that despise the
learned and that celebrate ignorance.
We are a land that hates the truth
and that worships mammon. We are a
land where courageous and righteous
men suffer hardship, humiliation,
injustice and persecution whilst evil
men are reverred and exalted.
We are a land that claims to love God
but that does everything that is
contrary to His counsel and His will.
We are land where brother eats
sister and where sister eats brother.
We are a land where parents trade
off the future, the destiny and the
glory of their own children for a
pittance and where men sell their
souls to the devil for fame, power
and wealth.
We are a land where children are
killed and maimed, where women are
dehumanised and turned into
desperate harlots by virtue of the
circumstances in which they are
forced to live and where evil is
nurtured, encouraged and glorified.
We are a land that continues to
dance, to make merry and to rejoice
even as it's weakest and most
vulnerable citizens are butchered
and even when it's very own children
are slaughtered like christmas
turkeys and sallah rams. I see all this
and I say shame on us all: from the
highest to the lowest we have all
failed. From the pauper to the prince
and from the servant to the king we
are all guilty.
Our hope and salvation lies in one
thing and one thing alone: the love of
the Lord God of Hosts, the mercy of
the Ancient of Days and the grace of
the Living God. I have little doubt and
abundant evidence to prove that He
still loves us despite the evil that is
inherent in us.
If we repent and call on His name He
shall deliver us from our fanciful and
destructive delusions, our manifest
and inexplicable greed, our insatiable
love of money, our obsessive lust for
power, our glorification of all that is
ungodly and evil and our shameless
self-hate and He shall make us whole
again. His love for us is never ending:
it remains faithful and true and it is
as constant as the northern star.
As a matter of fact it is by the power
of that love alone that we have not
fallen over the brink and totally
destroyed ourselves by now. It is by
His grace and mercy that we have not
suffered or experienced a Rwanda-
type genocide in our shores or
walked on the road to Kigali by now.
A couple of weeks back a courageous
Canadian soldier was killed by an
insane terrorist who stormed the
Canadian Parliament and who held
their political leaders hostage until
he himself was killed. The whole
world rose up and condemned this
callous act and rightly came to a
standstill.
Most importantly the Canadian
government and people honored the
dead and paid him tribute after
tribute. It was very moving and highly
appropiate. That soldier deserved no
less. Everyone in Canada, and indeed
throughout the civilised world, was
talking about it and people were very
sad.
That is how normal people and normal
countries are meant to react to such
things and that is how sane and
civilised people are expected to
behave. Yet in Nigeria it is not so. In
this country hundreds of our people
are slaughtered in 100 different ways
and abducted every week and there
is no sense of panic or alarm.
There are no tears, there is no
urgency, there is no passion, there is
no anger, there are no
demonstrations or demands for those
that commit this evil to be brought to
justice, there is no support for our
security agents and military, there is
no sense of national outrage and
most important of all there is no
genuine empathy or sympathy for the
victims and casualties of terror even
though most of them are women and
children. It is just business as usual
and our nation is flying on auto pilot.
Let us hope and pray that we don't
eventually go into free-fall and
crash.
May the souls of the 49 young boys
that were murdered in cold blood by
a Boko Haram suicide bomber in their
school on 10th November 2014 rest in
perfect peace. May God forgive us
for our sheer insensitivity,
wickedness, selfishness and
callousness and may His love never
depart from the shores of our nation.
________________FFK, 2014

The Problem I Have With F F K Is That when boko haram started he was in pdp did he make these positions known to the party hierachy or the president? no he didn't he watched as these attrocities were carried out. The Person Whom He ' Refered' to as calling for soft hands is the vice president, who offered amnesty to these boko haram miscrants. Yet When He Went Back To P D P He still kept quiet until he was giving a post before he could talk ( let me remind people what his boss once said about his person "Fani-Kayode is a dog, give him food and he will sing your praises" . I Heard He Is A Lawyer I Wonder The Kind of representation he will give his clients. Charge And Bail ? I No Tok Anything O.

Keep giving it to them. 'the agents of change'