Obiagelli:

It will take more time but i believe we can defeat these terrorists. We had the upper hand before someone decided on a ceasefire

Ngwakwe:


Buhari steered the post election violence that metamorphosed into 2011 Political BokoHaram. Had Buhari won the election, there won't be political Bokoharam let alone fighting them.

Stop deceiving yourself and own up to your choice.

We know you will choose political Bokoharam over Goodluck Jonathan government, any day, any time.

anonimi:


We all deserve better in our lives generally speaking. However our dear country does NOT deserve an unpatriotic pensioner like Gen. Muhammadu Buhari [rtd.].


Kai Buhari!!!
#Liberate-Lagos

DONGOYARO1:
i strongly doubt if the Nigerian armed forces can defeat Boko Haram. The attack on Baga was the last straw that broke the carmels back.

Baga is where the base of the MNJTF is located; consisting of soldiers from Nigeria, Niger, Tchad and Cameroon. The base was sacked and the Haramites brought wanton destruction on Baga in their wake.

I doubt if their is any army in west africa that can tame Boko Haram now. We need 'foreign' intervention.

Vikkie14:
Do you mean the "Opposition" or "Nigeria"? What "upper hand" do you want the Military to have when the "Government is On-top" and the "Opposition is firing-below"? I dont think you understand what you just typed Sis. We are just playing politics with Nigerians.

Ngwakwe:



Buhari does not need and wont benefit from virulent bad-mouthers and attack dogs who will only be rekindling the labels of intolerance and extremism being levied again him by his detractors.

I knew you as megalomaniacal bigot trying to deceive gullible Nigerians.

Goodbye and continue in what you know best as ethno-religious jingoist

Ngwakwe:


I can see you don't want to be specific hence no need.

I wanted us to compare the reaction of French opposition and general public to your objective with Islam-o-political BokoHaram you so much appreciate above the government in power.

It is only in Nigeria that opposition volunteers as the media arm of a terrorist organisation, cheering and boosting the moral of the insurgents by criticising and demonising the Military to the extent that El'rufia calls them GEJ's army.

What do you say about Buhari's open declaration that a war against Bokoharam is a war against Northern Nigeria? Is this what opposition in France saying?

berem:
That's a country that is serious in fighting terrorism. Jonathan is busy blaming Buhari for his failure to defeat BH.

Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre': 2,000 feared dead in Nigeria
Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies

Saturday 10 January 2015 10.42 GMT

Fighting continued Friday around the town on Baga, near Nigeria’s border with Chad. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images
Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.

Fighting continued on Friday around Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on 3 January and attacked again on Wednesday.

“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets,” said a government spokesman.

District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.

“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.

He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.

An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.

If true, “this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.

The previous bloodiest day in the uprising involved soldiers gunning down unarmed detainees freed in a 14 March 2014 attack on Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri city. Amnesty said then that satellite imagery indicated more than 600 people were killed that day.

The attacks come five weeks away from presidential elections which are likely to trigger even more bloodshed. Already under a state of emergency, the three north-eastern states worst hit by Boko Haram asked the central government for more troops earlier this week. The government has said voting will take place across Borno state although the worsening insecurity means few international observers are likely to get clearance to oversee voting in an area that is traditionally opposition-supporting.

Around 1.5 million people have been displaced by the violence, many of whom will not be able to vote in the polls under Nigeria’s current electoral laws.

Boko Haram also appears to be regionalising the conflict, after threatening neighbouring Cameroon in a video earlier this week.

The government has made no official comment on the alleged massacres. President Goodluck Jonathan skimmed security issues when he relaunched his re-election bid in front of thousands of cheering supporters in the economic capital, Lagos, on Thursday.

The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled across its borders into Chad and Cameroon.

Emergency workers said this week they are having a hard time coping with scores of children separated from their parents in the chaos of Boko Haram’s increasingly frequent and deadly attacks.

Just seven children have been reunited with parents in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, where about 140 others have no idea if their families are alive or dead, said Sa’ad Bello, the coordinator of five refugee camps in Yola.

He said he was optimistic that more reunions will come as residents return to towns that the military has retaken from extremists in recent weeks.

Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year.

“I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press at Daware refugee camp in Yola.

Obiagelli:


For 3yrs the opposition didn't stood with the government.

Obiagelli:


You have a link to back your devilish claims? Buhari also prevented the government from acting?

datolee:


You don't allow extremists to get a foothold in a country because even if Shakau is killed today, another leader will emerge tomorrow.

NB: There was nowhere any French politician was recommending amnesty for the 3 idiots, we know who and who advocated for amnesty for boko haram and who are opposing state of emergency.

Ngwakwe:


This publication was before 2011 presidential election


'Hold Buhari Responsible for Political Violence’

By Chuks Okocha
12 Mar 2011



Muhammadu Buhari , CPC  Presidential Candidate

Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Council Friday blamed the destruction of party’s offices, billboards and other campaign paraphernalia across the country on the Congress for Progressive Change’s Presidential Candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari[rtd].

A statement signed by the Council’s Director of Media, Mallam Abba Dabo said the violence against PDP members were a deliberate act of anarchy and “a direct consequence of Buhari’s repeated call for violence,” adding that it is an act of provocation against its law abiding supporters.

The PDP said if the acts of vandalism were not halted, “it could herald series of destructive violence nationwide, for which Buhari will be held responsible for unleashing.”

“The CPC Presidential Candidate at every opportunity has spared no time in urging his supporters to take the law into their hands, a reason why everywhere he goes, his campaigns have been trailed by anarchy and mayhem.

We call on the security to fully investigate the immediate and remote causes and bring to book anyone involved, no matter his position.

“Buhari’s recent apology for the actions of his unruly supporters is admission of his guilt and complicity in the series of pre-meditated attacks on our supporters,” the PDP campaign spokesman said.

Daboh, while committing the party’s determination to a free, fair and crises-free election in April, added, “we cannot continue to fold our arms as our supporters are continually assaulted.”


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/-hold-buhari-responsible-for-political-violence-/87707/

Then after 2011 presidential election came these rampages

Vikkie14:
Do you mean the "Opposition" or "Nigeria"? What "upper hand" do you want the Military to have when the "Government is On-top" and the "Opposition is firing-below"? I dont think you understand what you just typed Sis. We are just playing politics with Nigerians.

Obiagelli:

Buhari's comments was i June 2013, gej was elected in 2011 when Bokoharam was still a very small group of criminals. This thread is to address the government response to Bokoharam when it started.

Ngwakwe:



This publication was before 2011 presidential election


'Hold Buhari Responsible for Political Violence’

By Chuks Okocha
12 Mar 2011



Muhammadu Buhari , CPC  Presidential Candidate

Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Council Friday blamed the destruction of party’s offices, billboards and other campaign paraphernalia across the country on the Congress for Progressive Change’s Presidential Candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari[rtd].

A statement signed by the Council’s Director of Media, Mallam Abba Dabo said the violence against PDP members were a deliberate act of anarchy and “a direct consequence of Buhari’s repeated call for violence,” adding that it is an act of provocation against its law abiding supporters.

The PDP said if the acts of vandalism were not halted, “it could herald series of destructive violence nationwide, for which Buhari will be held responsible for unleashing.”

“The CPC Presidential Candidate at every opportunity has spared no time in urging his supporters to take the law into their hands, a reason why everywhere he goes, his campaigns have been trailed by anarchy and mayhem.

We call on the security to fully investigate the immediate and remote causes and bring to book anyone involved, no matter his position.

“Buhari’s recent apology for the actions of his unruly supporters is admission of his guilt and complicity in the series of pre-meditated attacks on our supporters,” the PDP campaign spokesman said.

Daboh, while committing the party’s determination to a free, fair and crises-free election in April, added, “we cannot continue to fold our arms as our supporters are continually assaulted.”


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/-hold-buhari-responsible-for-political-violence-/87707/

Then after 2011 presidential election came these rampages

Ngwakwe:



Buhari does not need and wont benefit from virulent bad-mouthers and attack dogs who will only be rekindling the labels of intolerance and extremism being levied again him by his detractors.

I knew you as megalomaniacal bigot trying to deceive gullible Nigerians.

Goodbye and continue in what you know best as ethno-religious jingoist

Obiagelli:

19 April 2011 Last updated at 10:53
Thousands of people have fled their homes in northern
Nigeria after clashes following the re-election of President
Goodluck Jonathan.
In some towns, residents slept in police stations for safety
and the Red Cross says there have been significant
numbers of casualties.
President Jonathan appealed for an end to the violence and
killing, while imposing a curfew.
In a statement to journalists, the runner-up in the election,
General Muhammadu Buhari, condemned the violence.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13126839

atlwireles:
Watch the way France and their fellow Europe states deal with Islamic terrorism in the coming weeks. You will not find a single french politician, coming out to defend anything about isalmic terrorism in years to comes as APC and their fellow talking heads did in Nigeria.

France deployed 88,000 troops, while APC and their talking heads called for the removal of troops, from the troubled areas.

Obiagelli:


Who allowed terrorist get foothold on Nigeria? Why are guys quick to defend GEJ? This thread is about our government's reaction to boko haram.

Who proposed amnesty for Bokoharam?
www.punchng.com/news/5000-boko-haram-members-may-get-amnesty/


What was the government's reaction when Bokoharam was less than 100 fighters?

Obiagelli:

How was the opposition firing below? Evidence please

datolee:


Buhari condemned the violence few days after it had taken lives of innocent people.. where was Buhari pre-election when his supporters were issuing threats like they are doing now? Didn't you read the publication was even before the election, did Buhari condemn then at that time? No because he thought he will benefit from such act of intimidation

Obiagelli:
France deploys 88,000
troops as Charlie Hebdo
manhunt focuses
northeast of Paris
Two brothers allegedly responsible for the
Charlie Hebdo killings which left 12 dead in
Paris remain at large. Tens of thousands of
security officers have joined a manhunt for
Cherif and Said Kouachi.
France has deployed tens of thousands of
security forces in the hunt for two brothers
accused of killing 12 people at the offices of the
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a hunt which
is now focused on a forest and several
woodland villages northeast of Paris.

www.dw.de/france-deploys-88000-troops-as-charlie-hebdo-manhunt-focuses-northeast-of-paris/a-18180946

taharqa:
So you agree that Buhari said that Govt's war on BH was a war against d North, YET you support such a human being??

OLADD:


Oby, let me first of all say those two scenarios are largely incomparable. What do I mean? Please consider the following;

1. While the Charles Hebdo incident took off as an outright offensive onslaught (hostage-for-relevance terror) Boko Haram did not not start on volatility note. In other words, It metamorphosed from a peaceful religious movement to the hydra-headed form it's today .

DONGOYARO1:
The Hauasas 2% of Boko Haram members. Majority of the Boko fighters are from the Kanuri ethnic group alongside their brothers from Niger, Tchad and Cameroon. Shekau is a Kanuri from Yobe.

Kanuri and Hausa are two different tribes

jmaine:
I find it amusing that those who take extreme delight whenever BH strikes to score cheap political points are here pontificating over an outcome elsewhere totally in tandem to their conducts here . . . .

All stake holders in France has taken a common stance against terror, unlike the shifty characters who pride themselves as progressives in Nigeria . . . . . .

You guyz are obviously deceiving yourself . . . .