“Boko Haram thinks the best way to get attention is through sustained attacks, but the surest way to dominate national discuss and stir critical opinions is to take the battle to the country’s economic hub, which is Lagos and Ibadan,” the group said in a statement in Ibadan signed by its Secretary for Internal Affairs, Alhaji Mufatau Adedoyin. “That is the new thinking of the Boko Haram leadership.”
AOKOYA expressed regret that the political leadership of the South West has no concrete plans to curtail the “almost inevitable” suicide bomb attacks that the Islamic group may unleash on the largely urbanized Yoruba region.
It said that the frequent activities of Boko Haram in Kogi State, plus last weekend’s bomb attacks on Kaduna city are clear indications that cities in South West Nigeria must be prepared for their own dose of suicide attacks from Islamic fundamentalists pushing for sectarian leadership of the country. The group described the bombing of ECWA church in Kaduna as a calculated attack on the Yoruba people, as they are the most notable worshipers in ECWA churches across the country.
Said the statement: “We have intelligence information that Boko Haram will attack the largely vulnerable Yoruba cities on or before the month of July this year. We fear the carnage that will result from violent attacks on Yoruba cities. It is naïve to assume that Boko Haram will spare Lagos, Ibadan, Warri or any of the Yoruba cities. At present, the Yoruba political leadership relies on the Nigerian Police and the State Security Service, (SSS). These groups are too polarized, corrupt, inept, politicized, ill-motivated and hunted by low morale to be able to offer any hope for the Yoruba people.”
AOKOYA, which describes itself as a Yoruba self-determination group, noted that as Nigeria inches towards 100 years of the forceful amalgamation of the country by imperial lords, “the dissolution of the country should be a natural expectation given the tear, sorrow and blood” that has been Nigeria’s story since 1914.
“There cannot be any redeemer for a nation that is destined and designed to collapse,” it said. “We urge the Yoruba people to rise up and work hard to ensure minimum casualty in our search for the inevitable Oduduwa Republic. We seek alliance with the Middle-Belt, Igbos and the South-South, for the greater future of a traumatized population that have been pushed into the cesspool of underdevelopment, hunger and starvation in the hands of a hateful social and political system that offers nothing but destruction and the spilling of human blood.”
Calling for the assistance of the international community to Nigeria “to prevent the carnage that may arise from the inevitable break-up of the country,” AOKOYA said the bombings will not abate simply because the social and political contradictions of a diverse, plural society being forced to live under one law and value has reached its breaking point.
“The issue is no longer whether the country will break-up, the real issue now is when and how,” the statement said. “The people face the grim reality of either a violent break-up or ceaseless confrontation with blood and anguish in the hands of extremist forces.”
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the Bible says "they planned but will not stand, they gathered but not for us. every of their plans will be fruitless in Jesus Name. every fountain of their power will dried off. those that are gathering their wealth in order to destroy the work of God will die uncommon death. so shall it be In the Precious name of Jesus.AMEN!!!
ReplyDeleteAmen! the Lord will arise in His fury amd destroy any sponsor, volunteer, sympatizer and all involved and connected with this evil sect! today we will hear their destruction!
ReplyDeletei call on all xtians 2 c dis as a tym 2 seek God in truth & in spirit and then watch God fight 4 dem. As 4 d islamist group,they shld go bak & read abt wat befell those dat tried 2 fight God's ppl throughout history.they'll soon meet dir waterloo 'coz d battle is d Lord's. What a religion dat forces ppl 2 bliv in it. It's a pity.
ReplyDeleteI also hope d govt will not sit bak & watch dem carry out dir threat or else they'll b portrayin demselvs as traitors 2. it's
obvios dat they caanot take care of dis menace. Why, 4 cryin out loud,has internationl intelligence not been involvd?
Hmmmmmn God take control.
ReplyDeleteAbu Qaqa will die a more brutal death than his predecessor. We have come up with our own way of dealing with hin and Jehovah will give us victory. We shall go the Nehemiah way.
ReplyDeleteShalom!
Everyone who gather against us shall fall for our sake.Those who roll a stone shall fall on it and dug a pit shall fall therein...That is the word of God to believer.i employ believers to seek His face, Just like Esther did when Haman plotted to destroy the jews simply becs Mordecai refuse to bow to him,with faith Esther went to see the king knowing it against the law to see the king without been called-saying all jews to fast n pray ''If i perish i perish'' Behold God saw them through. same God is still on the throne.......
ReplyDeleteMay the Almighty God helps us to destroy all evil doer.
ReplyDeleteBut I believe that our leaders too are member of the sect.
I am sorry, but this views of the OKOYA does not represent the view of the entirety of the Yorubas.
ReplyDeleteI see nothing but selfish, and wicked ambitions from the statements of this group. My prayer is God will open our eyes to wisdom to see the true GOKO HARAM and also give us the strength to fight them.
Qur’an 9:29 Commentary
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9:29 Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, [even if they are] of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Some people have falsely concluded from verse 9:29, that Muslims are commanded to attack all non-Muslims until they pay money. In fact, such an interpretation is completely false and contradicts authentic Islamic teachings. Commenting on this verse, Shaykh Jalal Abualrub writes:
These Ayat (Quranic verses) stress the necessity of fighting against the People of the Scripture, but under what conditions? We previously established the fact that the Islamic State is not permitted to attack non-Muslims who are not hostile to Islam, who do not oppress Muslims, or try to convert Muslims by force from their religion, or expel them from their lands, or wage war against them, or prepare for attacks against them. If any of these offenses occurs, however, Muslims are permitted to defend themselves and protect their religion. Muslims are not permitted to attack non-Muslims who signed peace pacts with them, or non-Muslims who live under the protection of the Islamic State. (Abualrub, Holy Wars, Crusades, Jihad)
I comend al comentators 4 dir contributns bt prayer wrk perfectly in line wt lay down strugles n eforts. Boko haram menace has gon bynd ordinary religion,som cruel n wicked pple want dis country ungovernabl.Dey bliev dat religious war/revolutn is d
ReplyDeleteonly way or mean 2 brutalise n jeopardise dis country bynd re-arangemnt. Almighty God,we seek ur quick interventn 2 eliminate al evil doers bhnd dis mess. *IB ola frm ibadan
HABA MY FELLOW NIGERIAN MASSES OF WHOM IAM SURE MAJORITY ARE GOD FEARING PLS LET US COOL OUR MINDS NOT ALL NORTH/MUSLIMS ARE BOKO HARAM OR LIKE SENSLESS TROUBLE SIMILARLY YORUBAS. IBO ETC
ReplyDeleteLET US CONTINUE TO PRAY AGAINST ALL EVIL DOERS BE IT HAUSA IBO YORUBA MUSLIM CHRISTIANS ETC
PLEASE MASSES LET US UNITE FOR OUR COMMON COUSE AND FORGET STAGE SENTIMENTS
We have, for too long stay in a place not too comfortable but afraid to make a change,we have for too long doubt GOD and his ability.
ReplyDeletei want to tell you fellow christian that our god has not given us the spirite of fear but rather that of sound mind .No man with a sound mind wil not understand that the lord almighty has heard our cry and this is the side time to delivere our enemy into our hand.is time to take our bible our guns our any availble quick distroying weapon.at this pointb we must unit to form a strong force militry force and make the border shareing countrys connection with anyn of the nebory country
GOD will not allow them to successed in the name of all the great men of GOD we have in south-south in Jesus Name.Because of GOD faithful servant-Pastor Enoch Adejare ADEBOYE it will not happen[they will eat their flesh & drink their blood on top by themselve]in Jesus Name!
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