Comedian Angel Micheal
I remember when this hashtag was so popular all over twitter last month. Well, just like every other worldly trend, it has faded away. I just couldn’t help writing this article on the previously “famous trend”. Before I begin, I want to remind my dear intelligent readers that everyone is entitled to his/her opinions about everything. I shouldn’t be critisized for my opinion no matter how silly it may seem.
No girl is missing! That’s what I believe. The two hundred and
something number that keeps wavering is a facade as far as I’m
concerned. I do not hold this opinion because Alhaji Asari Dokubo claims
same, but because I see reason with him. To start with, the issue has
been made so complicated by the people involved that nobody knows who or
what to believe anymore.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to insist that my opinion is
correct neither am I trying to impose it on anyone, I’m only trying to
express it without mincing words…
I may be wrong, I may also be right. How possible is it that the
parents or relatives of people who have been missing for nearly two
months will be comfortable and not promote or organize any intense
action when they know that the lives of their loved ones are in danger?
No parent can feel comfortable with the gruesome images of their
child being tortured by terrorists frizzling in their minds, yet we have
not seen any parent start a facebook page in the bid to protest or even
storm the newspapers with his/her appeal to the government. So far, the
parents of these “missing kids” have not been shown on TV, interviewed
on radio nor have they come out to express their pain. Beside that, why
is it that the names or the identities of the missing girls have never
been revealed to the country.
If they are truly missing and they show us their identities, it
would help for recognition of them if any ‘escapes’. I know it would be
very hard for anyone to believe that the large world virtual protest was
done for something that isn’t even real, but as far as I can see in
this issue, that is the case. When the First lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan tried to get into the case and help, the principal of the
school kept acting like a dumb fool and dodging as if she had something
to hide.
If the principal really had nothing to hide, why did she find it so
hard to bring along the people that the first lady summoned in respect
to the case. Anyway, that’s another day’s topic. But what I want to air
is that nobody is missing. The whole thing is a setup to humiliate
Jonathan’s government. It’s hard to believe that people can be kept for
so long in reality, yet the issue only came as a drifting saga through
the minds of the masses, a simple come and go experience.
Even if the Nigerian security forces are as incompetent as we claim
they are, they should have been able to rescue the girls by now if they
are really missing. Even though Boko Haram showed us video evidence,
that evidence can easily be dispersed as false. It’s too easy for the
uneducated indigenes of some northern areas that are in support of Boko
Haram to give or sell their daughters to boko haram to front as proof of
people missing by showing them in a video dressed in islamic dresses
and reciting the quran.
Is it not the same Boko Haram that brought in another entirely
different man claiming he is Shekau when the original Shekau is dead?
In summary, conclusion and simple words, nobody is missing. We’ve been fussing around for nothing.
Note: The Chief of Defence Staff said they have located the location of the girls. Is he also lying?
With my above points, i think we Nigerians to think and know where we are going….
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