NIGERIANS, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE

My Fellow Nigerians,  It is said that a word is enough is enough for the wise and he who has ears, let him hear.  With all the nonsense called Boko Haram that is happening now and spreading everyday, I think it is high time we wake up and smell the coffee and we will see that this is not just ordinary people but  a group that has a backing from external forces.  When that stupid idiot Yusuf was killed, most thought that the Boko Haram nonsense would come to an end but since then they have become stronger and the attacks have been more daring and casualties have skyrocketed. So my question is how can an organization which was weakened before its leader was killed become all of a sudden stronger after their leader was mutilated.  What happened to Al Qaeda after the death of its leaders including Osama Bin Laden?  Did they become stronger or weaker?  So why is Boko Haram becoming stronger?  They are becoming stronger because the external forces who have the most to gain from the catastrophic nature of these events are making sure that they are not silenced.   Most have claimed that these forces are the Northern Oligarchy who want to wrestle power from Jonathan in 2015 and plan to disrupt the country's peace in doing so. However, I strongly think a bigger boss is behind these attacks and that big boss is USA.  USA stands to gain the most if Nigeria breaks up as they have stated in 2015 because they can come in and take over under the guise of a new treaty that they formed called ACRI ( Africa Crises Response Initiative). 

ACRI was set up during the Bush Jnr Administration as a counterweight to the Nigeria led ECOWAS Monitoring Group on the Liberian Civil War or ECOMOG as it is more popularly known. ACRI came to being from the secret reports and recommendations separately by the Africa-America Institute and the Brookings Institute commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency, the American Government’s Directorate responsible for organizing foreign subversive activities, on the Liberian civil war and the intervention of ECOMOG. Both reports zeroed in on the pivotal role Nigeria playing in the ECOMOG initiative and noted pointedly the phenomenal success recorded by ECOMOG in containing the Liberian crisis without any significant role or intervention from any of the major western powers including the United States.  The report concluded that should ECOMOG be allowed to go the whole hog, the major beneficiary will be Nigeria and that might form the basis for a pax Nigeriana in the West African sub-region eclipsing the influence of former colonial powers France and Britain. The reports also called on the United States Government to note that Liberia being its creation should not be allowed to fall into Nigerian hands with consequences to US strategic interests in the country and the region. Specifically both reports noted that should Nigeria be allowed to have a foothold in Liberia, it will further embolden Nigeria to challenge the US and the West in carving its own sphere of interest at their expense. In this regard, the report further recalled Nigeria’s role in helping to liberate the southern African countries in the 70’s and 80’s in clear opposition and defiance to the interests of the United States and its western allies which resulted in setback for Western initiatives in Africa at the time. Both concluded with a recommendation that the US Government in conjunction with its allies should seek to contain the growing influence of Nigeria in the sub-region by forming a parallel organization to ECOMOG. But in order not to unduly alarm and antagonize Nigeria which the report admitted still had considerable influence in the region, the US government was advised to go about this using quiet diplomacy. 

During the secret congressional hearing organized to consider the reports by both institutes on Nigeria’s role in the ECOMOG, the interagency team comprising representatives from the CIA, Pentagon and State Department formed to push the case, endorsed the recommendation that Nigeria be kept out of the alternate arrangements on Liberia that was being proposed. The strategy was to win away some key African countries from participation enthusiastically in the ECOMOG initiative. The sweeteners for this were the promise and delivery of military and humanitarian aid. This was the line the then US Secretary of State Warren Christopher pursued when he visited a number of African countries excluding Nigeria to sell the ACRI idea.