BOKO HARAM'S PLAN TO BRING INTO POWER THE SHARIA LAW

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Boko Haram group which is actually called "the Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad"  was formed in 2002 and operates in the north eastern parts of Nigeria. Boko Haram is a Hausa nickname that loosely means that they reject western education.

The group which fights to bring into power the Sharia law the region it operates in, has not been averse to bombing mosques and killing civilians indiscriminately.This group is a painful throw back to our own Lord's Resistance Army who initially claimed they wanted to overthrow the government and rule Uganda by the ten commandments. The kidnap last month of the girls was not unlike the nineteen ninty six abduction of one hundred and thirty nine girls from St Mary's College - Aboke by the LRA. A hundred of the girls were released after deputy headmistress Sister Rachel chased the retreating rebels into the bush and negotiated for their return.

It is vivid that Boko Haram did not only did the abducted Nigerian girls not have a sister Rachel but Lagos, probably out of embarrassment, remained silent about the abduction with president Goodwill Johnson coming out after two weeks to speak publicly on the matter.

But there are also reports that the when intelligence was received that the group was turning towards militarism to further its goals the security forces either turned a blind eye or dragged their feet in acting on the information, that by the time the group went fully violent in 2009 Lagos was caught flat footed

Last month after re-basing its statistics Nigeria announced that it was now Africa's largest economy. But the continent's most populous nation, which derives nine in ten dollars of export income from oil and has been bedeviled by bad government since independence, has huge wealth disparities among its people with eye popping opulence on one side of the pendulum and sub human poverty among almost half it's population on the other hand.

 

Economic growth makes good headlines for politicians but the equitable distribution of this wealth among its people is the more telling statistic in terms of national stability. In fact great wealth disparities in a country are an indictment on the government of the day. Wide income inequalities suggest governments are unable to not only distribute the economy's growing wealth by providing social services and physical infrastructure and in so doing creating an environment for more people to climb up the social ladder

 

To the extent that the people see no hope for advancement is the extent to which they will clutch at straws, even insurgency, to provide for their families.An insurgency can not be sustained without people. Boko Haram has grown into enough of a force that large parts of northern Nigeria are under emergency law because of their activities.Recent military adventures against the Boko Haram have not endeared the continent's largest army to the citizens of north eastern Nigeria