Boko Haram is NOT an Insurgency but a Foreign Terrorist Sect

First let me formally congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibajo on their assumption of the mantle of leadership of my country Nigeria.

I also commend the. President on his comprehensive and apt inauguration speech that sought to address almost all areas of grave concern to Nigerians at this critical period of our history.

It is gratifying to note for example that the President intends to address the menace of Boko Haram headlong.

However I need to sound a note of warning. President Buhari should make no mistake to classify Boko Haram as an insurgency. Boko Haram is NOT an insurgency it is a FOREIGN TERRORIST Sect

An Insurgency is a rebellion by a section of the citizenry against constituted authority usually for some; political, socio economic consideration or religious injustices.

The Niger-Delta resistance could pass as an insurgency as the militants were agitating for their environmental rights and economic rights. The nature of their agitation was directed at the oil pipes and source of the environmental degradation and economic venture of the country while agitating on occasions for self-determination to manage the economic resources in that area.

In contrast the Boko Haram sect has its roots in the larger Terrorist groups that became more vicious since the Iraq war initiated by Bush Administration after 9/11 terrorists attack in 2001. After the Iraq war the Terrorist groups such as Al-Qua”eda were greatly undermined as many of their leaders were killed or arrested including Osama Bin Laden by the Obama Administration which led to their disintegration and brake up into several splinter groups. One of the achievements of the American led attacks on the terrorist groups was their break up and uprooting them from their hitherto permanent geographical bases.

Each splinter group of Al Quaeda and other terrorists groups is now seeking a geographical base and new recruits where they can control. The terrorists then went on recruitment drives in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Nigeria a rich country with poor people and porous borders became a fertile ground to recruit the children of the rich such as the notorious Yemeni/Nigerian Abdusalam “bottom bomber”, children of the Military and politicians who are sent to training camps in the Middle East, Sudan, Libya, Niger,, Chad and several secret places all over the world where they are indoctrinated to fight an unjust Islamic Jihad.

The trade mark of the Terrorist groups is to commit various crimes against humanity, barbaric acts of cold blood murder, rape and sexual violence against women and children all to create fear and shock the civilized world.

Following the antecedents of Boko Haram the so called original leader Muhammadu Yusuf who was killed by the Nigerian police was a fundamentalist preacher who paved the way for the takeover of Al-Que’ada and was succeeded by Shekau who I honestly believe is a non-Nigeria from Niger Republic