Many many thanks to God for the release of the 21 girls by the fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram after they were whisked away by the sect some 900 days ago. Many thanks also to the Buhari administration for ruggedness, force and the art of negotiation.
I was just smiling when I saw the girls at their Thanksgiving Service today. I wont forget when the first videos of these kids(in the detention camps of the Sambisa) were released by the sect where Boko Haram’s commander Abubakar Shekau insisted that these girls have been converted into ‘his’ own faith.
That single bigoted speech still makes me laugh till today. At 16, I was practically not interested in any religion, wasn't very much afraid of a gun like I am now and love deviant but academically brilliant people. Telling me I have joined your faith when you kidnapped me because I now chant stuffs with you can never mean I have joined your faith. You may deceive yourself about f oorcing me to wash my feet in a bush with you but as soon as I step on the soils of Abeokuta, what I truly worship will immediately come to me. A man's religion will ever be his business. Putting young girls in captivity away from their parents, faith, hereditary space, loved ones and environment for two years is the bloodiest form of rape. Just like the 120 Rwandan catholic school girls that were killed in boarding school during the genocide in 1994, there will have been one of these our Chibok girls that might have attempted to speak out about hygiene or discomfort issues and I keep wondering what would have happened to such a girl. These rabid criminals, who claim to work for a killer god who won’t ever come around to bomb people himself, will just tie the girl for a gang rape. After all, the only one amongst these girls that was returned earlier in the year came back with a baby.
No wonder the Heavy Champion of all Time, Muhammad Ali insisted at the emergence of September 11 attacks that Osama Bin Laden and his terror network were no muslims but racist fanatics!
I was just smiling when I saw the girls at their Thanksgiving Service today. I wont forget when the first videos of these kids(in the detention camps of the Sambisa) were released by the sect where Boko Haram’s commander Abubakar Shekau insisted that these girls have been converted into ‘his’ own faith.
That single bigoted speech still makes me laugh till today. At 16, I was practically not interested in any religion, wasn't very much afraid of a gun like I am now and love deviant but academically brilliant people. Telling me I have joined your faith when you kidnapped me because I now chant stuffs with you can never mean I have joined your faith. You may deceive yourself about f oorcing me to wash my feet in a bush with you but as soon as I step on the soils of Abeokuta, what I truly worship will immediately come to me. A man's religion will ever be his business. Putting young girls in captivity away from their parents, faith, hereditary space, loved ones and environment for two years is the bloodiest form of rape. Just like the 120 Rwandan catholic school girls that were killed in boarding school during the genocide in 1994, there will have been one of these our Chibok girls that might have attempted to speak out about hygiene or discomfort issues and I keep wondering what would have happened to such a girl. These rabid criminals, who claim to work for a killer god who won’t ever come around to bomb people himself, will just tie the girl for a gang rape. After all, the only one amongst these girls that was returned earlier in the year came back with a baby.
No wonder the Heavy Champion of all Time, Muhammad Ali insisted at the emergence of September 11 attacks that Osama Bin Laden and his terror network were no muslims but racist fanatics!
All things being equal, these girls would have been in their 2nd year in various tertiary institutions now going by their 2014 wishes to do what is legitimate upon their parents concurrence within approved and legitimate territorial space only never to return.
I am too sure it must have been the same experience ordinary African parents would have had at the emergence of slave trade when on that Day, Kunta Kinte, son of Omoro was forcefully taken away some 400 years ago in The Gambia….in a net…like a caught fish!
I continue to question what greed, cultural bondage, religious nuances and prevailing circumstances that seeks and dictatorially desires to hijack the extraordinary expressions of another human mind or compel it to submit (this time not just to bombs but to oppression) or die. The human mind is like a garden. And this garden is better harnessed with education, good parenting, consensual marriage, the right husband, funding, diet, health, love and selfless service. Plant the right seeds with adequate watering, tendering in a girl-child's mind and you have just produced a solution driven mind, a great wife, an intellectual, a loving mother, a leading mentor and a role model. There is a genius and grace lying in everywoman.
Male Pedophiles, Religious extremists like Boko Haram and Rapists have one major target- The Girl Child. And they will do anything to get these harmless kids without caring about their health, heritage, Home or homage. The confirmation by these girls of the bomb blasts and raids by the Nigerian Army close to where they were kept in the Sambisa proves to all that President Muhammadu Buhari was ready to prove to Boko Haram that her Fatwa does not apply here. For this he must be strongly commended.
From the revolutionary conscious voice of a young African boy stolen away to the slave banks of Maryland that says with indefatigable courage to his captors" I am Kunta Kinte, son of Omoro, of the land of Juffure, a Madinka warrior of the Fulani tribe" to that tender loving Spirit of Motherhood that sticks with a Girl-child even across the Sambisa, We say Never Again to every mental, sexual, intellectual and spiritual rape of the Girl Child. Never to be forgotten are girls that obey their parents. Never to be forgotten are girls that aspire for higher education. Never to be forgotten are the remaining 197 Nigerian school girls that were abducted on the night of 14th April, 2014. Never to be forgotten are they!
I am too sure it must have been the same experience ordinary African parents would have had at the emergence of slave trade when on that Day, Kunta Kinte, son of Omoro was forcefully taken away some 400 years ago in The Gambia….in a net…like a caught fish!
I continue to question what greed, cultural bondage, religious nuances and prevailing circumstances that seeks and dictatorially desires to hijack the extraordinary expressions of another human mind or compel it to submit (this time not just to bombs but to oppression) or die. The human mind is like a garden. And this garden is better harnessed with education, good parenting, consensual marriage, the right husband, funding, diet, health, love and selfless service. Plant the right seeds with adequate watering, tendering in a girl-child's mind and you have just produced a solution driven mind, a great wife, an intellectual, a loving mother, a leading mentor and a role model. There is a genius and grace lying in everywoman.
Male Pedophiles, Religious extremists like Boko Haram and Rapists have one major target- The Girl Child. And they will do anything to get these harmless kids without caring about their health, heritage, Home or homage. The confirmation by these girls of the bomb blasts and raids by the Nigerian Army close to where they were kept in the Sambisa proves to all that President Muhammadu Buhari was ready to prove to Boko Haram that her Fatwa does not apply here. For this he must be strongly commended.
From the revolutionary conscious voice of a young African boy stolen away to the slave banks of Maryland that says with indefatigable courage to his captors" I am Kunta Kinte, son of Omoro, of the land of Juffure, a Madinka warrior of the Fulani tribe" to that tender loving Spirit of Motherhood that sticks with a Girl-child even across the Sambisa, We say Never Again to every mental, sexual, intellectual and spiritual rape of the Girl Child. Never to be forgotten are girls that obey their parents. Never to be forgotten are girls that aspire for higher education. Never to be forgotten are the remaining 197 Nigerian school girls that were abducted on the night of 14th April, 2014. Never to be forgotten are they!
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