Boko Haram is but Institutional Failures

Boko Haram is but Institutional Failures.

Nigeria president likens nation's unrest to Syria

By By BASHIR ADIGUN and JON GAMBRELL | Associated Press – Mon, Dec 31, 2012 (yahoo News)

In honesty, the threat of BOko Haram to Nigerian is greater than that posed either by Al-Qaeda or by any other terrorist organizations to any other Nation. And this threat to Nigeria is neither because of the sophistication of this terror group nor because of their uncanny abilities to cause mayhem and or destructions. These ragtag terrorist primitive bastards are successful with their scourge because of institutional failures, corruption, mediocrity and gross incompetence in the Nigerian society.

For example, how can a nation fight terrorism or terrorist when it does not have even an inaccurate head counter and identities of its citizenry. In Nigeria there is neither birth, death, national, local registry of the citizenry. The result of this one out of many institutional failures is that anybody is and is not Nigerian depending on the immediate circumstances and desires of the individual.

Just by mere common sense, it is impossible to stop Boko Haram if its members like many Nigerians can assume any identity at any time and place of their choosing. Boko Haram will grow and increase in straight and assume any name and coloration as long as Nigeria remains one of the few countries in the world that cannot identify its own citizens.  

A terrorist who appears Middle Eastern laden with explosives and AK 47s can walk freely across the porous Nigerian borders and within the Nigerian states parading self as citizen.  And I ask, can we found somebody we know not of his or her existence, identity, name, height, complexion, familial? The answers is no; but when we do, it is by sheer luck and the security of a nation and of a people cannot be entrusted to luck and randomness.  

Bawomanh