On the day Nigeria announced a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram jihadists, the militants attacked a Nigerian village, killing several people.
On Saturday, they launched yet another attack on another village, all in Borno state.
According to Reuters, the insurgents attacked the village of Abadam on Friday night, killing at least one person and ransacking homes, while another attack on the village of Dzur on Saturday morning left at least eight people dead.
Nigeria’s armed forces chief, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, announced on Friday a deal with Boko Haram for a ceasefire that would enable the release of girls whose abduction in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April caused international shock and outrage.
Nigeria had announced a similar agreement in the past, but it turned out government had struck the deal with the wrong people.
According to experts close to the conflict, any serious ceasefire would require having Abubakar Shekau or any other leader of the movement at the negotiating table.
The Boko Haram pandemic is really uncontrollable. One wonder how they’ve been able to sustain their activities for this long. The question is, who is funding this organization? With these have artillery, and the number of arrests. Is it the joy they derive from killing that is their central motivation? Or what are the other incentives derived/avcruing from these. The killings, nyash burglary and forceful entries as evidenced by the escapee, with pregnancy? What really did the government negotiate with them? Is it just a cease fire? The cease fire, an impetus to what? To stop the killings, maiming, arson, looting or what? Their action, after the truce, was it a reprisal to their previous losses, of men? What really was the discussion? For settlement for Shekau’s alleged destroyed seminary as earlier read via the net? There was a truce, barely some hours there were killings, what really motivated that? The lapses? Geographical spread and calculated Weaknesses? What is the way forward? The Nigerian populace and its neighbours can really only on the assistant of a formidable network of vigilante group, particularly from people who have lost loved ones to these pandemic. They use of a lapse just after the truce to resume attacks is not a way forward, rather retrogressive. It is not human.
I think the right steps is to deliberate on settlement of the said seminary which was destroyed. Lifes have been lost, both the Military, Civilians and the Boko Harams’. Sure the solution to the end of these pandemic and persistence shall stop some day. So help us God. May the prayers of the voiceless and the unable be heard by God.