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U.S./TALIBAN PEACE DEAL ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM NIGERIA'S SENATE BILL MULLING A PIGGY-BANK AGENCY FOR 'REPENTANT' HARDLINE BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS

ATT: @NGRSenate @HouseNGR @DrAhmadLawan @femigbaja @SenatorAbaribe @iamekweremadu @stellaoduah @SenUcheEkwunife @HQNigerianArmy

2/ IF EDUCATION IS EXPENSIVE, TRY IGNORANCE. HELL NO. IGNORANCE is more EXPENSIVE that EDUCATION. The long-term effects of IGNORANCE, is UNIMAGINABLE in any society.

Thus, the major reason, BOKO HARAM & FULANI HERDSMEN MENACE, 've continued to hit Northern Nigeria, for DECADES.

3/ It was the Great Philosopher, George Santayana who said: THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. Since Nigeria's Nationalist, Pa Anthony Enahoro, in 1953, first moved the motion for Nigeria's Independence, Northern Nigeria has lagged behind in EDUCATION.

4/ When late Pa Anthony Enahoro moved the first motion for Nigeria's Independence in 1953, Nothernerns who represented the Northern Region in the Western House of Assembly, STAGED A WALK-OUT, citing glaring Disparities in EDUCATION, CIVIL SERVICE, et al, between North & South.

5/ In 1959, when NORTH felt it was READY, a 4th MOTION for Independence was moved by Tafawa Balewa. The motion was passed. Due to intense pressure, the Governor-General, Sir James Robert, announced the decision of the Queen of England to grant Nigeria Independence on Oct 1, 1960.

6/ By 1966, the NORTH had already began gaining DOMINANCE within the Constituent Federal Assembly, Military, Civil Service, the Prime Minister & Head of Government's position. For their SUBSERVIENCE, Britain's Census in 1952/1953, favoured the NORTH, POLITICALLY, even till date👇

7/ Nigeria's census ought to be Decennial. But since 2006, Nigeria is yet to conduct another. In 2013, head of National Population Commission (NPC), Festus Odimegwu, said, "There had NEVER been a CREDIBLE CENSUS in Nigeria." @KwankwasoRM, et al, led PROTEST CALLS, & he was FIRED.

8/ For the UNDER COUNT in Southern Nigeria & OVER COUNT in Northern Nigeria, the NORTH had since the first census in 1952/1953, the 1963 post-Independence census, as well as other subsequent census counts, continued to enjoy POLITICAL but ECONOMIC PERKS of a UNITARY NIGERIA.

9/ Since the first military putsch that truncated Nigeria's First Republic, in 1966, the NORTH has occupied Nigeria's seat of power for over 38 years, the South for barely 16 years. Of this 16 years, the SOUTH EAST (IGBOS), one of Nigeria's Tripod Stands, got just SIX MONTHS.

10/ Between 1948 & 1953, the NORTH was UNINTERESTED for an Independent Nigeria. But, since 1966, it is the LEAD PROPONENT, for a UNITARY NIGERIAN STATE.

WHY?

A UNITARY NIGERIA Favours the Northern Hegemony. Thus, any call for SECESSION, till date, is met with BRUTE FORCE.

11/ PERTINENT QUESTION?

Having chronicled where Nigerians are coming from, and having explained how census counts gave the NORTH, its POLITICAL & ECONOMIC PERKS, till date, e.g., 19 States, more seats in @NGRSenate & @HouseNGR, more LGAs, one may ask, WHAT DOES THE NORTH WANT?

12/ Despite the advantageous POLITICAL & ECONOMIC PERKS, the NORTH continues to enjoy from Nigeria's UNITARY STATE, what on earth, inspires Sen. Ibrahim Geidam & his collaborators, to mull the establishment of a PIGGY BANK AGENCY to rehabilitate 'REPENTANT' HARDLINE TERRORISTS?

13/ Since 2009, when the activities of BOKO HARAM took a VIOLENT DIMENSION, researches prove, the insurgency is fueled by

1. ETHNICITY
2. ILLITERACY
3. POLITICS
4. RELIGIOUS IDENTITY & AFFILIATION.

Are these enough reasons to establish a PIGGY BANK AGENCY for TERRORISTS?

14/ Me thinks, the rehabilitation of 'REPENTANT' HARDLINE TERRORISTS, isn't the duty of all Nigerians. Not even when funding is to be sourced from the already paltry, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Fund, & the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). HELL NO!

15/ Researches have proven that the BOKO HARAM MENACE is a NORTHERN CREATION. It's therefore not out of place to beseech the Northern Hegemony to stop the BEHEMOTH, they have created, through:
GRAND CORRUPTION, ILLITERACY, SELF-CENTERED POLITICS, ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS EXTREMISMS.

16/ Since 2009, owing to the wanton destruction of lives & property, by these CRIMINALS, many of whom Nigerians have been told are FOREIGNERS from Libya, Syria, Niger, Chad, etc, the North East Development Commission was established. There is no need for a new PIGGY BANK AGENCY.

17/ Based on the abovementioned, @DrAhmadLawan-led @NGRSenate MUST without WASTING TIME, THROW OUT this bill aimed at COMPENSATING enemies of Nigerians. Senator Geidam's DEAL for BH is entirely different from the U.S./TALIBAN PEACE DEAL. The U.S. don't NEGOTIATE with TERRORISTS.

18/ @WhiteHouse doesn't NEGOTIATE with TERRORISTS, who wreak havoc against Americans, on American soil. For the U.S., the permanent residence for HARDLINE TERRORISTS, remains the famous GUANTANAMO BAY (GB). GB has been the permanent residence, for many TERRORISTS, for DECADES.

19/ THE U.S./TALIBAN DEAL

The latest deal @WhiteHouse signed with the Taliban is aimed at drawing down its military presence & ending its 18-year war in Afghanistan. The long-anticipated deal comes after a year and a half of negotiations and following a week-long partial truce.

20/ In 2001, on a reprisal attack, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, sacking the then Taliban government, for allowing the Osama bin Laden-led Al-Qaeda terrorists, an operational base in Afghanistan. This came after the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attack on U.S. soil.

21/ Among other things, the U.S. has spent a over $1trillion in military spendings, over the Afghanistan/Taliban crisis, thus, the ongoing deal that will see nearly 5,000 of the 12,000 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan, leave the country in 135 days.

22/ Under the ongoing deal, the rest of U.S. troops will withdraw 14 months later, if the Taliban comply with the FULL terms of the agreement, which is primarily to seize all HOSTILITIES. The deal also states a prisoners swap of 5000 Taliban fighters to 1000 Afghan soldiers.

23/ END- U.S./TALIBAN DEAL must not be equated with Geidam's COMPENSATION DEAL for 'REPENTANT' BH TERRORISTS- a group that has KILLED over 30,000 Nigerians, destroyed homes & displaced over 2.3m? The world's deadliest terror group according to the Global Terrorism Index? HELL NO!

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