Ay can you school me on Boko Haram? Like it just seems like they came outta nowhere but I know it's more to the story. Also remember you saying you were staying in Nigeria for awhile and you never seemed concerned so I'm assuming they're in rural areas?
Boko Haram in name is the west african "al qaeda" in that they didn't really give themselves that name. Some rebel cells had that name and the media lumped all of them together under that umbrella which galvanized them in a way.They are essentially the equivalent of gangs and crime in America. They are the result of an inept government neglecting the Northwest for decades and allowing poverty and radical islamists to take root. That place is a real **** hole. And I'm not saying that to be rude nor mean because I love my people but that area is terribly underdeveloped.
They most certainly stay in rural areas due to their lack of ability to fight back but they have bombed the a bus station and a market in the capital of Abuja. They hit Kaduna and a few other cities. They are truly rancid animals who will meet their doom in due time. I wish them nothing but death and manrape.
I don't live out there but do business out there so I'm back and forth all the time. But I'm not worried about them because honestly I walk with my ancestors and most importantly CHUKWU so if it's my time then it's my time. **** boys can't stop my mission. We're doing good work out here and if they don't take days off than how could I?
It's been said they are receiving funding from Arabs, the Nigerian gov and the west. It's prolly true. There are a ton of people who are milking this crisis and making billions off the contracts alone.
There is even a document that was circulating around online last few years written by western political scientists about how Nigeria would "collapse" by 2015. Nigeria just announced the largest economy in Africa and shortly thereafter the US stopped all import of light crude oil. This was to further tighten the economy of Nigeria and cause even more poverty.
Poverty is honestly what is fueling all of the violence. The villages are constantly being raided because they are an easy target but Boko Haram ****** around and tried that **** in Cameroon. There prez got to bombing on those ****boys early. They are ****** fighters but unfortunately the army in Nigeria is undertrained and poorly paid due to embezzlement at the top.
Buhari is trying to win this upcoming election and if he does you won't hear about Boko Haram ever again. Buhari took over the gov a few decades ago and had it running like clockwork. There was a rebel uprising that people don't even mention because he put them in the dirt quick fast and in a hurry. No government embezzlement but he cracked down on freedom of the press and the west used that as a means to oust him from power.
It's a forgone conclusion in the public arena that Goodluck will "win" the election but if he does rig it then there may be hell to pay cause his public approval rating might be the lowest ever. His goodwill in the Muslim North is done after he didn't get the Chibok girls back and he's tanked the economy in way unimaginable. All his cabinet members are from his ethnic group and he's not meeting any of the 2015 major development goals.
This Boko Haram business is a ******* mess that the west is propogating and loving because it continues the narrative of savage africans being unable to govern themselves and even manages to lump in Islam. They are hitting many birds with one stone. But it's often said what can kill you just might save your life.
With the US relying on shale drilling and no longer importing oil thus killing Russia's economy they've done Nigeria a big favor because now that the oil boom is calming down we can get back to what we really do and that's farm. Our agric sector is a major money maker and in the next few decades it is gonna thrive.
The thing about farming is that it causes everyone to eat figuratively and literally. It harder to embezzle money and communities are forced to grow and develop under such conditions.
They want Naija to fail because it has the largest black population in the world. If we can get our **** together we will be the domino that gets all of the Black diaspora together.
Sorry for being long winded but there's a ton of factors that went into the issue from the past and going forward.
PEACE!