‘The Blood Of The Children, The Shame Of A Nation’

Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode
expressed on his Facebook page his rage over
the killings of 49 innocent little boys by Boko
Haram group in their schools on 10th
November 2014 as they resumed class in
Yobe state.
Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode
Fani-Kayode asked would there be any limit to the
depravity of these monsters and those that secretly
support and encourage them?
He was talking about long-term generational
consequences.
He said, "This is the more so when that blood is the
blood of children. Our girls are kidnapped from their
schools, abducted, raped, married off and sold into
slavery and we call ourselves blessed.
Our little boys are bombed to smithereens in their
schools, their young lives are snuffed out, there is
no sense of outrage and no-one is brought to book
yet we call ourselves blessed.
Our level of sensitivity has been seared to a point
that we don't care anymore and we are no longer
moved when we hear about the horrors being
inflicted on our people yet we call ourselves blessed.
When will we appreciate the fact that there is
something fundamentally wrong with us? I had
every reason to feel so sad on the day that the news
from Yobe came but my initial sadness was quickly
overwhelmed by a deep and burning rage.''
Former minister added, "I was (and still am)
enraged by this latest act of pure evil and I condemn
it in the strongest terms. When I told Nigerians
three years ago that Boko Haram and their secret
sponsors and friends had to be crushed like vermin
even if it meant wiping out whole communities that
secretly supported them virtually everyone said that
I was wrong.
Many within and outside government counselled
that we ought to adopt a "softly softly" approach
towards them and disregarded my counsel. They
even subjected me to insults and ridicule for taking
such a strong stand and such a hardline at the
time.''
He said he saw the evil behind Boko Haram long
before it fully manifested and he recognised it for
what it was right from the start.
''The truth is that until Boko Haram takes over the
entire north and knocks on the gates of the south
Nigerians will continue to act as if the whole thing is
no big deal and that whatever atrocities that Boko
Haram commit really doesn't matter. That is how
short-sighted, insensitive, depraved and ignorant
we have become.
Nigeria is not blessed, she is cursed and she is in
dire need of deliverance. If we were not cursed how
can we act as if all is well and how can we be normal
after 49 of our school children were bombed to
death in one fell swoop," Fani-Kayode wrote on his
page.
He also said, "We are a land that claims to love God
but that does everything that is contrary to His
counsel and His will. We are land where brother eats
sister and where sister eats brother. We are a land
where parents trade off the future, the destiny and
the glory of their own children for a pittance and
where men sell their souls to the devil for fame,
power and wealth.
Our hope and salvation lies in one thing and one
thing alone: the love of the Lord God of Hosts, the
mercy of the Ancient of Days and the grace of the
Living God. I have little doubt and abundant
evidence to prove that He still loves us despite the
evil that is inherent in us.''
Fani-Kayode finished his post with the words, "May
the souls of the 49 young boys that were murdered
in cold blood by a Boko Haram suicide bomber in
their school on 10th November 2014 rest in perfect
peace. May God forgive us for our sheer
insensitivity, wickedness, selfishness and
callousness and may His love never depart from the
shores of our nation."
A recent claim by the Nigerian government that a
ceasefire had been agreed with Boko Haram and
that the girls will be returned to their families ,
turned out false.
Earlier, Boko Haram, has seized several towns lately
in Borno and Adamawa State, driving out
government soldiers and other security operatives
and confiscating their arms.
On Thursday, the Adamawa State governor, Bala
Ngilari, said local vigilante and hunters, backed by
the military, reclaimed Mubi, the second most
important town in Adamawa, nearly two weeks after
the town fell to the insurgents.
Two days ago the Nigerian military has retaken
Chibok, a town in Borno State, where nearly 300
schoolgirls were abducted on April 14, from the
extremist Boko Haram sect. The town was taken
under control of the terrorists on Thursday night.

Posted By David Aniemeka