Why We Failed To #BringBackOurGirls By Dr. Peregrino Brimah

From the headlines of June 18th: “hundreds of thousands of Iraqi volunteers have responded to calls by the country’s highest religious authority to fight militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).” You may read and view the video [ here...]

This importantly highlights the failure of Nigeria’s executive leadership, ultimately and northern leadership in combating Boko Haram, a senseless menace that has plagued Nigeria’s north, largely unabated for four straight years.

In the four years of Boko Haram’s worst carnage, the terror sect has operated with minimal impedance from the Nigerian military and next to none so-ever from the communities where it rampages, rapes, abducts, kills and sets everything on fire. Over 80,000 have been killed, 3 million displaced and billions worth of farm lands rendered abandoned, potentially putting millions of Nigerians out of work and at risk of and dying of hunger.

The Nigerian government placed the north east under a prolonged state of emergency and deployed a number of troops to the conflict zones, but that has been pretty much it. Nigeria’s northern leadership and apex religious leadership have not done much more than criticize, comment or condemn the executive leadership without being proactive as Iraqi’s religious authorities have in the precipitation of their identical crisis.

When the people are being massacred by a handful of ragtag terrorist bandits, hiding in known locations in forests, the basic human response is for all willing and able men, young and old to volunteer, carry arms and...

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