AN OPEN LETTER TO CHAIRMAN, SOUTH-WEST GOVERNOR'S FORUM, NIGERIA, ARAKUNRIN ROTIMI AKEREDOLU

By Ogunlade Faith Kayode

SOUTHERN NIGERIA, WAKE UP!

"Those trailer/container loads of human beings may not even be Almajiris. They may be well trained fighters of the extremist Boko Haram relocating."

What a window of opportunity for them to come down in mass! The annihilation has been long planned out.

No doubt, the governors strutting about, shouting and gesticulating under the sun, in public shows of efforts at stopping the spread of Coronavirus may never have given it a thought. They sincerely believe they are working hard, and very hard, to stop the spread of Covid-19.

But what was presented ought to be seen to be different.

Few weeks ago, Boko Haram was quoted saying "they would strike in the South-South and South East". Many may have considered it preposterous. But what do they know? Now, Boko Haram has been largely walloped and dislodged in the Chad region due to the efficiency of the Chadian army. They must find new bases, and they may have rolled down south, what a doom!

And the governors have been caught pants down.

The evidence is there. They just intercept lorries or trailers and ask them to return to where they came from. Matter closed! Really? In a country which has been held by the throat by a terrorist organisation since 2009? Strange!

Even our much talked about Special Intelligence Units? They all brought the idea that these were Almajiris?

Almajiris are normally children, but the people in the trailers we saw are full grown adults. Nobody followed them to find out if they actually moved a few metres away from the last point the governor and his officials could see?

But security conscious people should have asked some simple questions such as the following:

(1) Where were they coming from?

(2) How did they pass the other cordons in many States in between to get to the cape of the sea as Rivers State or Akwa Ibom or Cross River or Delta or Edo, Anambra or Enugu, etc?

(3) Who failed to do what he/she was supposed to do all the way from wherever they started their journeys?

(4) How had they been feeding as they journeyed?

(5) Who was planned to receive them as they arrived their destinations?

(6) What are the exact destinations of each trailer load of persons?

(7) Have some loads of weaponry gone ahead of them (or coming behind them)?

(8) Is it strategic that they, being Muslims, are making this mass movements to the South during their fasting period?

(9) Why are these so-called almajiris neither kids nor teenagers but full grown adults quite smart to pass any entry physical test of any army?

The above are some questions for us to ponder about.

Some of them were kitted with clean cans and backpacks. There was no single forlorn look on the face of any of these, I observed. They looked poised and happy like tourists.

The governors are simply being emotional. They ought to know. Those being moved down are not Almajiris but rather are they young men on a mission.

At best, they may look like tourists!

In a covid-19 ravaged country?

Please! Let us take heed!!!

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