Islamic insurgency, Obasanjo's Greek gift Nigeria

Islamic insurgency, Obasanjo's Greek gift Nigeria  

The war against Islamic insurgency in Nigeria is not a winnable war and not because of the strength or capacity to cause destruction and mayhem by the terrorists, rather because any Muslim person, group, organization or country waging war against infidels whether for right or wrong reasons must by the dictates some form of perverted Islamic ideology receive direct or tacit support from all devout Muslims around the world. Islam is an occult, a brotherhood occultism, however this is not the original Mohammed (PBOH) Islam. In today's Islam it is an offense punishable by death if a Muslim opposes another Muslim fighting infidels in the name of Allah, Mohammed ( peace be into him) and in the name of Sharia. During Islamic jihadism any Muslim not supporting the jihad but sits on the fence is as guilty as the infidel and must be treated as such.

When Obasanjo for political power, allowed some northern states to adopt customary Sharia legal code hardly did he foresee the monster he was about to birth;  the monster that we now know may consume the country 'he so much loved.'  Nigeria is country with so many checkered past, however, the introduction and assent to Sharia legal system in some northern states was the highest blunder ever done  it.   When the dust of the terror of Sharia and associative Islamic terrorism settles and maybe, and I mean maybe Nigeria recovers, Nigerians would come to know that Obasanjo’s Sharia gift did more harm to country than all the coups, the civil war, the kidnappings,  all the armed robberies combined.  Some Obasanjo apologists have argued that sharia was already incorporated in the 1999 Hausa/Fulani military decree, AKA Nigeria constitution. Well Nigeria is also a signatory to the international for the right to self determination by the indigenous nationalities, Obasanjo shouldn't have bombed the odi people. Perhaps we should let the Igbos succeed?   

My biggest fear is that the Ginny had been let off the bottle and there is no going back from Sharia system in some part of the country. Sharia is like a metastatic cancer that can only spread and grow outward. A customary Sharia is like a half Sariah system, like a half education or half knowledge, is like a Muslim being half Moslem and half something else, these are dangerous dispositions.  Folk there is nothing like half Muslim or half Sharia. I say these things without prejudice because I believe that there is one God, Allah and Christ is the son of God, the Allah and Mohammed (PBOH) is messenger of Allah and these are the requirements for being either a Christian or a Muslim or both and I am both. However I am first a Humanist then a religious being because religion is meant for men and not men for religion. Its impossible to love God one sees not if one hates a human god who is his or her neighbor. My Allah is so powerful beyond comprehension that it would make no sense protecting Her from the weakly human or killing them for Him. Ignorance is the disease afflicting Boko Haram and all religious extremism. These extremists serve god so little, weak, vulnerable that it needs protection from its human followers.      

So Obasanjo’s Greek gift that gave rise to this Islamic insurgency has three possible ends, none of which is good for the Nigeria Nation.

1.       Full adoption of full blown Sharia systems in the states and area that want this Islamic legal code; therefore a two full independent judiciary system; one for  those that want Sharia system and the other for the rest. But two full independent legal codes require two separate constitution, two different legislatures, and therefore two independent nations. So one of the possible outcomes of Obasanjo’s self-serving gift of Trojan horse he gave not out of malice but of poor sightedness is the disintegration of Nigeria.

2.       Perpetual   insurgency and war of attrition that would stagnate growth and development; keeping Nigeria in a state of perpetually war and undeveloped.  Jihadism can only be over permanently when the jihadists overrun and conquer their enemy and institute Sharia Islamic code or temporarily, when the last jihadist is captured, imprisoned and or eliminated.

Perhaps for the sake of peace and one Nigerianess, Nigerians of none Islamic faith may have to exercise greater sense of patriotism and convert to Islam and accept Sariah as national legal code.

3.       Confederation, a gloried federation unfortunately may be Nigeria’s only escape route from a potential disastrous explosive end that the Obasanjo’s gift is leading Nigeria to. In as much as I am completely for indivisibility of Nigeria, confederation  may be a win win solution for both Islamic Jihadist and for none Muslims; solution to the prevailing political religious quagmire  necessitated  by Obasanjo’s gift of half Sariah legal system.  

Some have suggested a negotiation between the government and Boko Haram and I wish them good luck and even in my doubt, I pray for good outcome from such negotiation. Shakur’s Boko Haram is no longer the same Boko Haram led by the Mohammed Yusuf. Any meaningful negotiations must directly or indirectly involve Muslem mullahs, the sheiks,  and leaders of Islamic terror organizations around the world. However these Islamic extremists do not compromise in their eternal quest and conquest for Islamic theocracy and Sharia legal system. Any negotiation with these ignoramus terrorist must be comprehensive and for comprehensive peace that would end their barbarism completely for sometime, hopefully. Negotiation involving just the prisoners swap would  be very disastrous; it would put a more dangerous tool and tactics into the hands of these homo-erectus species. In fact  negotiations for prisoner swap would mean victory for the terrorist and embolden them because there are millions of abduct-able people in the North. Negotiation with  Islamist  guarantees only but one thing, the postponement of inevitable religious war planted by the birth of Sharia legal code in the North with Obasanjo's assent. These Boko Haram bastards are demonic and it is impossible to negotiate peace with demons because they surely will come back, is only but  a matter of time.  

Yet all hopes are not lost for the preservations of Nigeria as one entity. Yes, a federation with a trigger-able confederation will not only save Nigeria but may also stop the Islamic insurgency with not even one more single shot of fire. With the ongoing national conference, and the current Islamic insurgency, a federation laced with trigger-able confederation couldn’t have been timelier.

And here is what I postulate; to negate the possibility of Nigeria degenerating into military dictatorship or into Islamism or all out religious war, the new constitution that would emerge from the ongoing National Conference must have a section or provision that guarantees democracy and religious secularity in Nigeria based on the atmosphere of mutual respect and or mutual fear and based on the equality of the citizenry among the peoples of the 6 political zones or of the 36 state of the federation.

Yes, the opportunity offered by the ongoing conference must be seized for the guarantee of lasting democracy and religious freedom in Nigeria. The conference must be used to guarantee every Nigerian and every geo-political zones or the federating units, political, cultural and religious freedoms and mutual respect and self-determination if the government at the center becomes, tyrannical, despotic, and or taken over by undemocratic religious extremists.

For the above ends, a new constitution from the ongoing conference must have provision that would AUTOMATICALY Dissolves the country into its federating units the moment undemocratic and religious extremists hijack, seize and usurp power and authority from a democratically constituted government. One may rightly argue that these rights already exist in the 1999 military decree which is the current law of the law. Yes they do exist but there are no consequences and never have there been consequences when dictators abrogate these unalienable rights.

After an automatic dissolution of the Nigeria State due to an undemocratic usurpation of power by undemocratic elements and or by religious extremist, the federating units would automatically become independent confederating states. Each new independent state may voluntarily choose to remain independent by itself or enter into political union with one or more of the other independent states as each independent state deems fit.

With this constitutional provision no sectional interest group, clique or religious extremist would fancy taking over the federal authority by force because if they succeed they would have only their tiny federating unit to rule and dictate to. For example, under this condition the people of north east Nigeria would determine whether they want to remain in Nigeria or under Boko Haram religious order by taking a popular decision for or against Islamism. If they popularly choose to remain in Nigeria by rejecting Boko Haram, then the Federal government should declare total emergency and total war against the insurgency in the North East. To effectively prosecute this war the government must be willing to handle mass movement of people or temporal relocation of the law abiding citizens to safer areas as it declares total blockade, total emergency and total war in the North East.  

The immediate benefit of a federation with a trigger-able confederation is that Boko Haram would no longer have any reasonable incentive to terrorize because their success would leave a tiny fraction of the former Nigeria, to Islamize if the citizens living in their area of influence and theater willingly welcome their type of religious doctrine.  North central and southern Nigerian must demand this trigger-able confederation in the ongoing national conference if they wish to maintain their way of life, culture and religion.  Though not absolutely necessary but to make this new constitutional order work the military may need to be decentralized and balanced among the federating units either at state or at zoning levels.