Chibok girls and the arms scandal

By Joseph Edgar . . .
Have they been found? It’s beginning to look like we have moved on as a nation. Nothing is being said about these little lost girls again and the Twitter hashtag campaigns have seized. It’s like we have all just resigned ourselves to fate and have continued with our lives as if this sad episode never happened.

Well, I hope we remain very conceited as a nation, I hope as a people we remain very proud at our collective reasoning, at the cowardice we have shown even as we allow these girls to grow into full womanhood within the camps of the sons of dogs.

What hope does this give future generations, how does this episode give even those of us who presently eke out a living in this country, that the nation has our back and that is why I am supporting the government squarely on this its campaign on the arms scandal.

If it’s true that these kinds of amount were diverted from the fight against Boko Haram into the private pockets of evil men, then they deserve all that is coming towards them. These monies if properly appropriated would have gone a long way to get strong intelligence equipment that would have assisted in tracking these girls down.

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But instead, like we have heard, the monies were used on the media campaign for reelection while the marauders made a mincemeat of our soldiers and the girls were dragged, raped and serially dehumanized in the Sambiza forest with impunity.

I remember very succinctly how soldiers mutinied because of the poor quality of weaponry at their disposal for a war with better armed terrorists. I even wrote in support of the stupid government of the day, blaming the soldiers for protesting and calling them cowards. I apologize and seek their forgiveness. On hindsight, I was the fool.

But tarry awhile, even at those times, I secretly wondered why the increase in the incidence of mutiny. I figured that something must be wrong but didn’t really worry myself since I held and sadly still hold the firm believe that soldiers under no reason had the rights to mutiny no matter the circumstances.

Back to the Chibok girls, why don’t we just organize one huge memorial service for them, carry their coffins and bury the coffins so we know that we have achieved closure. This is really sad, really sad. The folly of a nation.

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