If ever the Boko Haram leader had a mission statement it would read something like this:
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.
And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be.
And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
You see?
You don’t see? BOMB
Alice In Wonderland Abubakar Shekau in LocoLand
But yet when the media talks about Abubakar Shekau the declared leader of Boko Haram they use words like intriguing, complex andintelligent. In fact the BBC describes Shekau as “a fearless loner, a complex, paradoxical man – part intellectual, part gangster.”
Huh? When last I checked he was a cold blooded murderer responsible for attacks on unarmed children. But yet the media international and national give him and his organization credibility by saying stuff like boko haram is getting more sophisticated in their attacks. There is nothing sophisticated about opening firing on unarmed children in the middle of the night and then running into bushes. It is crude and it is cowardly.
And the media, you me and everyone should start describing boko haram and its leaders as what they really are. A cowardly terrorist organization that not only picks on unarmed citizens but children as well. Let’s stop the over-glorification of boko haram. There is nothing sophisticated or intelligent about killing children. Nothing.
Okechukwu Ofili is an author, speaker, and blogger and a The Trent Elite Voice. Follow him on twitter, Facebook or subscribe to his blog for more honest talk and as @ofilispeaks on instagram for more sketches! To bring Ofili to your school or organization as a speaker simply go here. His third book How Intelligence Kills was published in December 2013, order it at https://bit.ly/intelligencekills.
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