Why current events in Iraq should be of grave concern to Biafrans

Why current events in Iraq should be of grave concern to Biafrans

Current atrocious acts of the terrorist Islamic State (ISIS) should be a source of great concern to Biafrans. The media and blogosphere have been awash with gruesome images of beheading, mass executions and the spilling of bloods of innocent civilians, whose only offence was their refusal to convert to Islam.  Yesterday, the world was chilled with a video showing the gruesome murder of a United States journalist, James Foley by ISIS. Last week over 300 Yazidi people were slaughtered by ISIS after their refusalto convert to Islam.
A day before the Yazidi massacre, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has consistently tracked violence on both sides of the three-year-old Syrian civil war, reported that around 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe, from theDeir al-Zor province, have been beheaded by ISIS jihadists.

Appallingly, very many Biafrans are still unaware of the dangers such actions taking place many thousands of kilometres away from their lands and albeit in another continent pose to them. While Britain that has a handful of her citizens fighting for the ISIS, and the United States are running helter-skelter plotting on how to stop ISIS on their tracks, Biafrans that already have the full army of Boko Haram, which is a branch of ISIS on her doorstep, are surprisingly very complacent about the unfolding situation.

Although ISIS is currently battling for a stronghold in the Middle East, its tentacles and influence is quickly spreading across the world. Their increasing influence is bolstering other Islamic terrorist organisations across the world, such as the Boko Haram that has sworn to kill every Biafran in order to make Nigeria an Islamic emirate. ISIS is demonstrating to other jihadists group on how to persecute their ‘enemies’.

The following are some of the inexhaustible reasons why Biafrans should be wary of events in Iraq:

Boko Haram shares same warped Ideology with ISIS

Boko Haram and ISIS share similar religious ideology that promotes Islam with the most virulent and extremist level of violence that could only come from the deepest pit of hell. They lack human empathy and have demonstrated that they are being controlled by the worst of the demons hell has ever produced. Spilling innocent bloods gives them unprecedented high. They have sworn to wipe away Christians from the face of the earth. Their watchword is kill . . .kill. . .kill!

Boko Haram would therefore replicate what ISIS is doing in Iraq if they are allowed to set foot on Biafra.

Biafrans are Boko Haram’s Enemy Number 1!

Biafrans are the prime targets of Boko Haram. They have shown this in deeds and words. The core agenda of the Noko Haram is to dip the Koran in the Atlantic Ocean. The jihadists hate Biafrans because they are the only stumbling block to the jihadists quest to Islamise Nigeria. Boko Haram insurgency commenced with the brutal killings of Biafrans in various parts of northern Nigeria, until they chased away almost every Biafran from the far North. In their current quest to get to Biafrans in their homelands, they are at the moment eliminating northern Christians and moderate Muslims (who by the way were tacitly supporting Boko Haram, when they were massacring Biafrans in the North), who they perceive to be standing on their march towards Biafra. Boko Haram was allowed to fester in Northern Nigeria because of the inane belief that they were after Biafrans, who have been facing persecutions in Nigeria since the 50’s.  This has temporarily backfired, as Boko Haram has turned its guns on them as they believe some of them are not tuned to their Islamic ideology. But that is not to say they have lost sight of their prime targets – the Biafrans. Biafrans should rather view this with a sense of concern.

Ultimately, as soon as Boko Haram gets a strong hold in the Northeast of Nigeria (as ISIS has done in Iraq), which they are about to do in a couple of months, based on ongoing events, they will commence their march towards Biafra.

Nigerian Army cannot defend Biafra

Many Biafrans are relying on the propaganda-based ‘might’ of the Nigerian Army for security. However, the currently ragtag Nigerian Army lacks the capacity to defend Biafrans against oncoming Boko Haram onslaught. Just as Iraqi Army failed the Yazidi’s and other tribes in northern Iraq so would Nigerian Army fail Biafrans. Today it emerged that Nigerian soldiers are running away from Boko Haram and have refused to deploy to battle grounds to confront Boko Haram. That is a clear indication that Boko Haram has mentally defeated Nigerian Army. Morale in the military is a basic and important weapon of warfare. Once there has been a mental defeat, it would only be a matter of time before the frightened army would be overrun. It was the same tactics that made Iraqi soldiers to abandon the northern tribes of Iraq, leaving them at the mercy of ISIS.

A Nigerian soldier recently confessed to the BBC Hausa service that “Soldiers are dying like fowl,” the soldier, who said “The Nigerian army is not ready to fight Boko Haram,” he said, explaining that soldiers were not being given enough weapons and ammunition to take them on.

“Boko Haram are inside the bush, everywhere,” he said “They [senior commanders] are sacrificing soldiers,” he said.

Even the vehicles the soldiers were expected to use were old armoured cars that were not up to the job, he added.

In addition half of current Nigerian Army and security forces are made up of Boko Haram sympathisers, who have been primed to switch sides at the appropriate time – albeit very soon.

Biafrans must start making preparations on how to defend itself.  War has been declared on them, only the myopic are yet to see it.