Wednesday, January 5, 2011

MUTALLAB THANKYOU.

I wrote this piece about a year ago but after the recent unfortunate happenings I have decided to edit the post and reupload it. Mutallab just put Nigeria on the world scene. Even the multi-billion naira driven 'rebrand Nigeria' campaign couldn't neither Nigeria's super eagles nor her #3 world's biggest movie industry - Nollywood has brought her this much global spotlight at once. Nigeria is now on the terrorist WATCH list of the US government. and on the ‘watch’ of the world but Nigeria begs to differ lamenting a single act of attempted suicide bombing by her (born but not bred) citizen is not reasonable to label a whole country a terrorist state. On the contrary, Nigeria might not have a proven link with Al queda but the country has continually experienced sponsored religious upheavals and movements in different states as far back as the 1970s when it began with a radical islamic group- Maitatsine. It believed its leader was the last prophet according to the holy quran to shut heaven's door once and for all. Hence every dead after the closing goes to hell. Their goal was simple. Die before the prophet or go to hell! It was a mass and bloody suicide mission. The followers would throw themselves in front of bombs and bullets fired by the government forces sent to stamp them. Nigerian Government soon realised this method aided their course so it went after only the group's leader and after he was killed his corpse was shown to his followers. Heaven had been shut! The madness stopped. Nigeria has been showing too many signs of instability, radicalism and religious fundamentalism. The Boko Haram debacle in Jos and Benue state revealed the islamic militia had a philosophy, sponsors,training camps and weapons to rebel against the Government! What else is terrorism?Nigeria's minister of information Prof. Dora Akinyuli has made a weak attempt to defend the country against the labeling by the US government in a vague statement 'nigerians are good people'. Sterner moves and contacts need to be made to quell the higher rate of american visa denials that awaits nigerians and intensive search of arrivals from Nigeria at international airports as a result of the national stigma. In the miraculous absence of Nigeria's president who is said to be receiving treatment in a Saudi Arabia hospital, the minister of information and the minister for foreign affairs need to mitigate and manage the foul mess. Ironically, Yemen recieves tens of millions of dollars from the US for being a terrorist haven. Commonsense let's us know nigerians don't run cartels has big and successful as the mafians and neither are they responsible for up to half of the percentage of internet crimes committed by americans yet they are seen as the black sheep of this generation. Obviously a minister of foreign affairs responsible for the international image of the country is not doing his/her job efficiently.P.S. I wrote this over a year ago and then everyone disagreed with me over Nigeria being a terrorist state. On christmas and new year's eve bombs exploded in Jos and Abuja respectively and the Boko Haram islamic group have sent tapes to TV stations claiming responsibility for the bombings. I guess they just confirmed my views. I pray for Nigeria nevertheless

25 comments:

LG said...

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wellsbaba said...

agbaya

LG said...

LOL back 2 senda!




btw: dis blog nids a new look jor, n stop doing 'yahoo yahoo wit ur former coach's picture :)

wellsbaba said...

you are not happy im even posting you want new look? new look ko hair care ni

Anonymous said...

wow.. this is really deep! i just hope our so-called leaders see these issues and decide to act upon them! cos personally, i do not see what they have done or are doing in power!!

May the soul of those lost in the recent Jos and Abuja bombings rest in perfect peace! Amen

Iamveryafraid said...

Nigeria is becomin a terrorist country and fast. Next now American ll start bombin us like Iraq. Well what do u expect, the world is actually comin to an end. Be afraid, be very afraid, I am

Ms.O said...

Ohh yay! welcome back!!! I am VERY worried about Nigeria right now....

Anonymous said...

sigh.. these days i try not to think too much of naija things o...

wellsbaba said...

@iamveryafraid LOL u still dont get the point of this post yet! nigeria IS ALREADY a terrorist state! we are only just waking to its realisation

Iamveryafraid said...

OFFICIAL: iamveryafraid is now very very afraid. Dude na to pack go villa (@ least they wont think of bombin my local remote village) get prepared and go to jand. We are no longer safe

Rebirth said...

yaaaaay u are back....
i won't lie i am so scared and tempted to move back cuz it's getting hotter by the minute! Lord help us

Plumbline said...

Okay o! Should we take d Yemeni option? lol

Aee Bonrue said...

.....its so scary the way things are going. we only have divine intervention to ask for....all else?
Exhausted...Sigh

Welcome back....I wanna be like you someday :)

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wellsbaba said...

@aeedeeaee awwww... im so humbled
@plumbline lmao! better lets declare prayer n dry fasting!

Unknown said...

Ok, after multiple attempts to comment on this post, I'm hoping this will be my last trial lol.

I like blogs like this, that r of national interest and this one particularly is an eye opener.

I'm of d opinion that we didn’t need uncle mutallab to put us on d map of world terrorism, he prolly just endorsed it...lol but we are terrorist nation by every standard and yes, our PR sucks and it would seem that either Dora or the minister of foreign affairs didn’t understand their job description or how to execute it, but my guess is this....... the 'god fathers' determine the jurisdiction of performance at every level of government in d various parastatals, but hey,...it's just my opinion though, which of course, is subject to personal watever...lol.

We have a 'mafia' typo cartel doing all d underground work and sponsoring these terrorist activities. they don't give a rat's ass about our image, cos i think they see d pple as dumb irrational masses who can be bought and brainwashed......and when things get outta hand, sm1 will go and visit all d presidents of diff countries or do a deal with them, or host their wives.....beta still, lobby to host an international event to create a wow 'over riding' impression :). They hve it all figured out. Let me stop here joor b4 I get carried away.

Only God can help this nation.

Well done.

Myne said...

Are you back fully?

As for naija, God save us...

wellsbaba said...

@jennifer ur post was worth every trial
@myne yea im back fully

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T.Notes said...

We'll see just how fully back you!
Lol@LG. Yes,new look jare!

wellsbaba said...

@anonymous awwww thankyou... i guess i'm the light of the world
@t.notes yes I'm back FYI. another post coming up this week. stay glued! about the new look i'll see what I can...

Gabriel Ugoala said...

IS only GOD that can save us,that why I try to live in denial,pretending all these are not happening @lst my self,family nd friends are safe because the thought of this nation will not kill me...GOD UNTO THEE WE COMMIT NIGERIA.

Anonymous said...

It's all so very sad.

Femme Lounge said...

really sad. hope a change comes soon.

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