Is Boko Haram Enjoying Goodluck?

Someone once opined that “the best time for an enemy to attack is when there is chaos within” It is definitely without any dispute or conflict of opinion that Nigeria is currently going through a period of “ulcerated inflammations” induced by personal negligence and insensitivity to prior diagnosis of critical social and economic breakdown.

The noun “Boko Haram” is currently used by some jolly-go Nigerians as an adjective. Just as “subsidy” has been revamped into various melodious tunes across the waves of social media, a real joke is also being made of the Boko Haram infestation,  a critical matter calling for national discuss otherwise, an impending (or eventual)intervention of international communities who are already predicting the collapse of the Nigeria State.

With various numbers hitting the ranks, it is painful to study a growing indices of over 200 lifeless bodies littering the streets of Kano. And what did these people die for? Obviously some actions or reactions they never applied for. Whilst Boko Haram served as the catalysts, these innocent lives where the exhibits and samples; warning to our leaders of more grievous retaliations by the dreaded Islamic sect.

We must not even consider the fact the suspect of the December bombings “mysteriously” escaped from the hands of The Nigeria Security Agents, whilst soldiers fully armed to their teeth were parading Lagos State in a view to stop the citizens from expressing their constitutional rights. Ironically, they are perceived to be the threat to national peace and security, while on the other hand Boko Haram keeps getting “goodluck” and extensive diaglouge/ pleas from both traditional and political leaders in the country. There is just one question, which certainly would birth many answers; What luck do the citizenry get at the end of the day? Sacrifice of their lives, or ill-luck each time they try?

It is a shame that with every passing day, the government seem helpless and the people the more hopeless. Boko Haram remains the in-thing, with subsidy the new music to dance to. A school of thought believes that the unavailability of the latter is as good as death. Another opines that this exaggeration is just an expression of the people’s depression and suffering. But considering the fact that Boko Haram still prevails,  then President Goodluck Jonathan has a big task to combat than getting himself worked-up and overwhelmed with subsidy crisis, clearly a discuss for another day. Or maybe another question should be asked; Is the removal of subsidy a sign of goodluck as much as the growing infestation of the Boko Haram sect? If the underlying issues besieging the nation are not deeply collimated, Nigeria would only be dancing to the melodies of a silent music.

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