Gaidam and the spirit of northern entitlement

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[Opinion] Gaidam and the spirit of northern entitlement

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On Thursday last week, a bill that purports to de-radicalise and re-integrate ‘repentant’ Boko Haram terrorists into society passed its first reading in the Senate. The bill was sponsored by the APC Senator representing Yobe East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Gaidam.

If Gaidam missed it somewhere, we should quickly point the way to him so he can stop wasting everyone’s time. There is an existing Nigerian agency that is operationally equipped to rehabilitate members of Boko Haram. They call it “prison.” The unquantifiable magnitude of the harm Boko Haram has done to the country will still be unfolding in decades to come and it will take a lot of work for Nigeria to ever recover fully. But here we are already, a senator of the “Federal Republic of Nigeria” demanding a country bludgeoned by terrorists to compensate them further.Number one is a hangover from our military days and it is a general Nigerian administrative malaise.

Like Gaidam, Buhari also offered Boko Haram an unsolicited prize, but they are yet to step out to collect it. Two years ago, Lai Mohammed, ever willing to spin a tale, claimed that “unknown to many, we have been in wider cessation-of-hostility talks with the insurgents for some time now.” Yet, the hostilities have not ceased.

Just last year, Nigeria created the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, to manage some of the fallout from the Boko Haram crisis. Gaidam could not have forgotten this so quickly. It is just that in his small mind, no aspiration is higher than to “enter mainstream politics.” That is how they know to thrive.

There is a high probability that Gaidam and his fellow travellers see themselves in Boko Haram. That probably explains why Buhari once said that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north. Their anxieties about the comfort of the terrorists at all costs show they share a similar sense of entitlement with Boko Haram. When they talk about Boko Haram and its fallout, they do not talk about accountability.

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