Abduction of students sparks outrage while imperialists pour in
By Abayomi Azikiwe (Pan-African News Wire)
Modern Ghana - 13 May 2014
A video purportedly released by the armed Boko Haram sect based in
northeastern Nigeria showed what was said to be school girls who have
been held by the group for a month. The Boko Haram leader said that the
young women could be released in exchange for the prisoners belonging to
their organization being held by the Nigerian government.
With
the convening of the World Economic Forum for Africa in Abuja, the
political capital of Nigeria, during the week of May 5, international
media attention was focused on the country. The issue of internal
security in Nigeria was also paramount since the detonation of two
deadly bombs in Abuja during a three week period which resulted in the
deaths of over 80 people.
Simultaneously the story involving the
missing high school students from the village of Chibok in Borno state
in the northeast which has been under a government-imposed state of
emergency for months, was utilized to mobilize the intervention of
military and intelligence personnel from Washington, London, Paris and
Tel Aviv. The problems of the Boko Haram insurgency has existed since
2009 when the government deployed police and soldiers to attack the
headquarters and residences of the group which had functioned for
several years with the public support of some prominent northern-based
politicians.
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