Apparently credited with the colossal extermination of more
than 25,000 mortals within the ambit of the north-eastern sphere of world’s
most populous black nation and the displacement of about 2.6 million since
2009, Nigeria’s radical Islamic death cult, Boko Haram, has luxuriated in the
definitive profundity of death related from contemporaneous terrorism.
Transformation From A Rebellious Clan To A Lethal Islamic Death
Cult
The group, Wilayat
Gharb Afriqiya, which claimed to have pledged its ‘unalloyed’ allegiance
to the "province" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),
is brutally acknowledged for bestial cruelty and cold-blooded ripping apart of
lives from the blood pumping organ of life.
Likened by many as the ferocious animals of the sub-Saharan
and Savannah, a mind’s eye of the Islamic death cult rings a frightening bell
tantamount to gory scenes in horror movies, as carrying out attacks and slaughters
of epic proportions are nothing but a much-loved hobby to the militants of the terror
group.
Artistically branded the ‘Da Vinci of macabre’ homicides, the
odious self-esteem of the militants hum in mantra the unruly slogan of combat
and death, ‘it is either you kill or be killed’.
Metaphorically christened as the painters of grisly causalities,
their guileful yearn for Islamic
caliphate was betrayed
by their tenet of dark understanding and inimical food for thought.
For they have failed to familiarise with the binary division
of all principles and actions between ‘halal’ and ‘haram’ – In Arabic ‘lawful’
and ‘forbidden’ respectively.
Designated from Hell with the ‘loathsome’ garland of carnage
and the mantle of the deadliest terror group to match, Boko Haram seeks after
the establishment of a hard-line Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, so as to project
Wahhabism, through means of cultural parochialism and religious dogmatism.
The heinous fraternity claimed to be abhorrent to the
Westernization of Nigerian society, but have sophisticated themselves with the
greatest benefits of Colonial heritage – cutting-edge weapons and
state-of-the-art ammunition with the aid of Doctors, Engineers, and Scientists
among others to wreck more bloodbaths to mankind.
They are a bunch of brainwashed monsters that have
purposefully veered out of the divine creeds of Islam and then embraced in holy
consummation the doctrines of Salafism – Jihad.
They are a cult of ferocious demons, who have sworn an ‘inviolable’
oath with Hell and Death to continuously transmute verve in life to
lifelessness at the altar of mass butchering, most especially of those who
contravene its barbaric doctrines and morally outrageous modus vivendi.
The brazenly
indoctrinated villains are so vicious in atrocity; even soulless animals are
not spared during their malevolent raids and ambushes in towns and communities
which they have viewed as soft targets.
In order
to ply their vile trade appropriately, the well-trained, fiendish emissaries from
hell have mastered the several arts of warfare - from the shifting
approach of guerrilla-style attacks,
to the conventional capture
and consolidation of territory, hit-and-run-style, and then the crafty
circumvention of ambushes and entombment of landmines.
The levels of casualties, internal displacement and social
disruption by the sect have incited a widespread crisis, spilling over the
borders of neighbouring countries such as Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
Until
April 2014, when their international recognition swelled overwhelmingly into a
‘wanted’ terrorist group, after they had laid siege and kidnapped 276
susceptible school girls from their dormitory in the serene and inconspicuous
town of Chibok in Borno state, Boko Haram was only known to be a group of
indigenous and religious hooligans.
They
largely fed on the lingering, untold hardship, hopelessness and unemployment in
the country to enroll intakes with the ‘false’ promise to enrich the rookies
with the financial guts and weapons to go after the authorities of Nigeria,
which they claimed have abandoned them - a spurious statement bored out of a
dark dogma, flattered to deceive the gullible Nigerians.
The
militants of the group had basked in the thought of inviolability and
indestructibility, not knowing that they were living on borrowed time, as their
days were not just numbered but over.
Military’s
Takeover And The Fall Of An Islamic Death Cult
After taking over
the supreme position of the country at the end of May, 2015, President
Muhammadu Buhari renewed his commitment to end insurgency in Nigeria, by
relocating the country’s Military headquarters from the apparently unruffled
city of Abuja to the de facto, war-torn hotbed of Boko Haram activities in
Maiduguri, Borno state.
A decision that was greeted with a ‘vote of confidence’ by
many Nigerians, as it was an
authoritative vitality restored in the mitochondria of the gallant troops of
the Nation’s Armed Forces to wake up to clarion calls.
From that moment,
the intrepid camouflage-clad combatants of the Nigerian Armed Forces took the war on terrorism to the frontlines
of Boko Haram territories and then rein in meteorically, wielding the rod of
annexation and annihilation.
Ground soldiers increasingly
dealt crushing blows against the militants of the sect during several land
combats, just as the Air Force aerially bombarded their strongholds, which led
to the liberation of thousands living as hostages in the enclaves of the
radical sect.
Following the
interminable, unflinching counter-offensive operations by the military, Boko
Haram fighters, who are notoriously known for their attacking vim and
lethality, now appear a weaker force in apparent disarray.
They now appear to be reverting to using cash loans to
recruit members as the nefarious cult struggles to maintain its numbers in the
face of the continuing crackdown by Nigerian government forces.
“The group has deviated from its Yusufania philosophy after
the death of the founder, Mohammed Yusuf, to a more radical one championed by a
splinter group known as Jama’atu
Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan, roughly translated as Vanguard
for the Protection of Muslims in Black [Africa]. This group introduced the
loans,” The Guardian reported.
Impeccable information gathered also revealed that scores of
the emaciated-looking Boko Haram fighters, who grew weary from starvation bowed
to the supreme dominion of the military, while a host of others, who have vowed
to remain as diehards now survive on roots and unripe mangoes, as the valiant
troops have succeeded in choking supply routes leading to food shortages.
With the stretched inaudibility of the shadowy leader of the
group, Abubakar Shekau, the war against insurgency in Nigeria is but almost won.
A big kudos goes to the President Muhammadu Buhari led
administration for making good its threat to obliterate Boko Haram insurgency
from the country, during the ‘campaign’ eve of the 2015 presidential election.
A bigger knock goes to the current administration, which are
yet to maximally achieve any other promises it made to Nigerians as the
populace have been infused in the ocean of ineffable hardship – from the
spiralling inflation of the naira to the removal of fuel subsidy.
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