‘Nigeria is not blessed, is cursed and need deliverance’ – Femi Kayode

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.

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 hard-line 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.