America, Britain & other world powers are backing Boko Haram – Uranta

Frontline activist, Tony Uranta, has said he believes America has a hand in the Boko Haram terrorism acts. He told reports at a recent interview that it was unfortunate that the world power could only pay lip service to the Boko Haram killings in Nigeria. Insisting that the sect members were terrorists not insurgents, he lamented that even Army officers and retired generals were wrongly using the word.

“It is worrisome. You can understand from their expressions that they do not understand the difference between insurgency, war and terrorism. Continue..
An insurgent is a man who takes up arms to prove a point within a state, staying within a state, through his being discontent”, he said.

“You could now say that the Niger Delta situation could aptly be termed an insurgency. The Boko Haram are not insurgents. They are terrorists, who are part of a global terrorism circle that is being controlled as well by ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. You will notice that Boko Haram, just as Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, all fly the same flag. They all talk about the Islamic caliphate. An insurgency is not foreign-controlled.

“But far beyond that, an insurgency does not try to obtain land. Boko Haram, ISIL, Al-Shabab’s intention right now is to take over space, territories, and declare those territories non-border Islamic caliphates. The only border that keeps them all in their contiguous state is there ideology. Their ideology says, for example, that slavery is proper, the enslavement of women. ISIL has come out to make a very categorical statement about that. Our Shekaus (we have had Shekau one, two, three, maybe there is the fourth now) have at different times asked why we (Nigerians) are asking for our (Chibok girls) back.

“They said they have sold them to slavery because Allah allows them to sell them into slavery. This is to emphasise the fact that there is a totally new global phenomenon at play. And nowhere else in the world is that phenomenon called insurgency. Nigerians are very good at repeating like parrots. So, the moment a new word comes up, everybody says it, they say we have ‘insurgency.’ What we have is not insurgency. It is simply a mass murderous invasion of our space, by local and foreign terrorists, with intent on capturing territories and depleting population that they believe is not in any way related to their belief.

“The Sultan of Sokoto very correctly said in his last statement that the war must now be intensified. I wish he had said that two years ago, when more Christians were been killed. In that statement, he said it is because more Muslims are been killed now. This is not a war between Islam and the rest of the world or the rest of Nigeria. It is a war between certain radical fundamentalist that have Islam as their basis, and other parts of Nigeria. Therefore, like you see in Iran, Sunnis are killing Shiites; Shiites are killing Sunnis in Syria.”

On how the terrorists are still making inroads, despite government’s commitment to stop them, Uranta said Nigeria’s porous borders were part of the problem.

“There is nowhere in the world where borders are as porous as ours that you can control the influx of strangers. Some may be law-abiding, but most will have criminal intents, because you need to have an attitude of law breaking before you start going into another country illegally. How are you going to control these people? Secondly, how are you going to discriminate or perceive that this woman in hijab is not carrying a bomb? You cannot approach a woman in hijab. You cannot stop her. And people should not make the mistake to think that these women are voluntarily suicide bombers.

“Most of the bombings that have taken place may have been carried out by drugged women. They don’t hold the detonators. The detonators are held by God-knows-who their controllers are, who have threatened, coerced and brainwashed them into having it strapped on them, then forced them to go to the designated place, and the moment they get there they now detonate remotely. This explains why the young girl who got to the door of the school and hesitated standing there weeping, did not move into the Assembly, but her controller, most probably, had estimated that by that time, she was already in the middle of the crowd, so he detonated the bomb.

“So, it was only that young man who went to ask her, “Mai ne ne” (what is wrong), that was killed with her. Bombings, especially suicide bombing, is not a Nigerian characteristic. But, whether Nigerian or foreign, even in the most advanced climes, it is difficult for you to control an asymmetric war, war of unconventional means. It was easy to target the Niger Delta militants because they had camps. You knew where they were, and you could get your satellite to monitor them.

“The Americans, French, British and so on that condemned Nigeria after the Chibok girls were taken hostage said they were coming in to help. They all came in to Nigeria, flooded Abuja and they refused, right from the on-set to share military intelligence with us. The satellite of each of these nations is constantly tracking movement. So, America knows when Boko Haram is about to attack, they will not warn us. They know that Boko Haram is going to hit this house or that building but they do not even consider it worthwhile to warn our military.

“Our soldiers do not have modern weapons, the latest training and don’t understand a lot of things. It was on this basis that Nigeria was tongue-lashed in the U.S. Congress, and the British House of Commons. But why have they not found the girls? Why have all the countries that trooped to Nigeria for assistance suddenly become silent?”

Asked if there is the possibility of a conspiracy, the activist replied: “I am beginning to suspect America. America has a very notorious record of arming two sides of a conflict. Nicaragua is very fresh in our mind. In fact, America armed Vietnam to some extent against its own self. I have record about this, and I will love the American ambassador or anybody to debate it with me on TV, and I will bring out the record and let them dispute it.

“I would not be surprised if Boko Haram is part of a grand conspiracy to help destabilise or make sure Nigeria fails. Don’t forget that their prediction is around the corner, 2015, they said we would fail. America loves to be seen as intelligent. They hate for you to show them as not having facts. They do not have the facts about our break-up.

“We won’t break up, but they will do all they can to see us break up, including telling us, we will not arm you. If I were the Nigerian President, I would send the American ambassador out of Nigeria. For them to have the temerity to say to us that, for human rights abuses, they will not arm the Nigerian military, which is facing a horde of not just human rights abusers, a horde of killers, beasts that are massacring hundreds of thousands of people in villages, and America is turning a blind eye.

“America does not consider it a duty to help us because they are not involved; just wait, when that horde starts picking up American citizens and beheading them the way they are beheading Nigerians, you will see the same America mounting global condemnation. At that time, you will see America carrying out air strikes! That level of hypocrisy must not be tolerated and cannot be tolerated by Nigerians. I don’t care if the Nigerian government reacts or doesn’t react.

“We the Nigerian people must take our destiny into our hands and say no to Obama and his conspiracy. We all had such high hopes on him but now that he is going around, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and refusing to arm us in the face of our being endangered, I do not have any sympathies for him. I support all the things he is doing for the Americans that are good, but his foreign affairs policies are bad.

“We as Nigerians have helped worsen the security situation. The most potent thing a military has in its arsenal is discipline. But the Nigerian media, orchestrated perhaps by myopic, uninformed civil society, who are maybe being influenced by shortsighted politicians, are sitting down, merely applauding every move of Boko Haram. When Boko Haram captures a place like Biu or Konduga they will laugh and say the military has no capacity. For me, that is wrong because with such attitudes you embolden Boko Haram”.