Taking The Fight To Shekau

The kidnap of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram terrorists appears to be the last straw that will break the back of the deadly sect as the world rallies round to help Nigeria in its efforts to rescue the girls. There is no doubt that it is going to be a fight to the finish when foreign forces arrive Nigeria to take the battle to Boko Haram to free the girls.

At the last count, world powers such as the United States of America, China, Britain, France, Spain, Canada, etc. have offered to assist Nigeria rescue the girls and tame the rampaging sect.

Nigerian leaders had been dithering for almost three weeks over the  rescue of the girls only to wake from their slumber following strident global campaign via social media.

The dimension brought into the issue of the missing girls by Mrs. Patience Jonathan who invited the girls’ principal to Aso Rock to chastise her was uncalled for and only ended up exposing her to ridicule. Patience’s role and that of PDP women’s leader, Kema Chikwe, who said no girl was missing, were a distraction and shameful, to say the least.

With the world joining Nigeria in its darkest moment occasioned by an unprecedented security threat across the country, we expect that the war against Boko Haram must be won.

The sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, who has clearly demonstrated in videos that he is a psychopath, must be smoked out from wherever he is hiding and brought to justice for the thousands of people he and his blood thirsty hounds have killed.

No matter how long it takes, Shekau must be fished out and made to pay for the atrocities he has committed. It took America many years before it brought down Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the terrorist bombing of the twin tower World Trade Centre in America in 2001 during which over 3,000 people were killed.

We can’t wait to see the end to the Boko Haram insurgency in parts of the north and Abuja, which began in 2009, now that the world has risen to support Nigeria’s seemingly feeble war efforts.