Last Sunday, the Christian community in Chibok, Maiduguri,
northeastern Nigeria, watched helplessly as members of the Islamic
fundamentalist group Boko Haram, chanting Allahu-Akbar, stormed the
community and slit the throat of 10 Christians living there.
Not
that the Islamists lacked the weapons to quickly dispatched their
targets to the great beyond, they deliberately chose the knife to
slaughter their victims to demonstrate the murderous barbarism in them.
They visited on their victims a slow, agonising death, the type meted to
animals in captivity.
They were said to have arrived the
community with guns and explosives and started moving from one home to
another, slaughtering helpless residents. At the end of their bloody
raid, 10 innocent and helpless residents of the community were killed in
a gruesome manner.
As if this was not enough, the blood thirsty
hoodlums went on the rampage again yesterday at Maiduguri, the Borno
State capital, and Kano, and engaged security forces in a battle.
Several people, including Muslims, were reportedly wounded during the
attack.
We are concerned about these incessant attacks and
killings of Christians and Muslims in Maiduguri and other parts of the
north by these hoodlums. We believe Nigerians should rise up to defend
themselves now.
It is clear to all that the government lacks the
means to stop these attacks. Despite several arrests and killings of top
commanders and members of the dreaded sect, the group continues to
unleash mayhem on Nigerians in the North and Abuja.
Nigerians
should not offer themselves as cheap targets of these evil killers, they
should protect themselves by fighting back if attacked. It is when they
do this that members of the sect will think twice before launching an
attack against them. If the members of Boko Haram knew that those they
were going to attack will fight back, they will think twice before
launching an attack.
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