No to Classical Bunkum

To the Punch Newspaper I dare say your motive is mischievous. I do not blame you, though. At least the tumbuleke-like CP set the stage. The man is doing the bidding of a Dracula. The Sokoto vampire has perfected the art of bloodletting and official gangsterism. And the bobawa from Yabo is a pawn on the chess board. Morally he stinks. So he could not stand the idea of moral regeneration towards which the members of the Islamic Movement are calling. For him to attain his goal of being the “boss,’ putrid as he is, he need to sustain the moral degeneration thereof. His primary occupation is the exact opposite of what he is being paid to do. He is paid to protect the lives and properties of the citizens. But he has chosen to be the number one enemy of peace in the state. He planned to bring about chaos so that more money could be allocated and swiftly released in the name of security vote. This remains the fastest way for him to line up his pocket. How else could he have afforded the throng of exotic cars he does collect?

Breaching all protocols he wrote a letter directly to the IG making all manners of wild and unsubstantiated allegations against the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. He did not deem it fit to table his “findings” before the weekly state security meeting. He did not equally deem it fit to copy the Chief security officer of the state. Other security agencies in the state were equally put in a doldrums. He was desperate to have the needed green light to unleash terror on innocent, armless and defenceless peace loving members of the Islamic Movement. He was and still is in a hurry to make war criminals like Bush and Olmert turn blue with envy.

He is dying to spill blood. He wanted to see children orphaned. He is in a hurry to see married women widowed. In fact he is itching to relive the inglorious days of Abacha’s brutality. He might have scanned through the diary of the area cop called Yakubu Shuaibu and felt the compelling urge to finish the unfinished task of uprooting the Islamic Movement. He was forewarned that it has always been a hard nut to crack. But he was ready to employ the most ruthless and vicious terror machines at his disposal. He might be socially and morally a Pygmalion, but is eager to prove to all and sundry that when it comes to savagery he is a Goliath. So not even Ben Gurion could have been a march to him.

On Ashura day the services of some thugs were employed to provoke the members of the Islamic Movement. Though the gathering in Zaria was estimated at about four million the members of the Islamic Movement displayed high sense of restrained. Even though they were attacked, wounded and even killed, yet when they apprehended the perpetrators of these heinious crimes they handed them over to the police even though they could have whacked the scoundrels. Thus, the ugly faces of the mischief makers ware unmasked therein. Then came the annual Maulud celebration which witnessed a gathering that could only be compared to Arafat of a sought. Yes, you would need to be there to know what I am talking about. If attendance was excruciating to the likes of Yabo bobawa then the manner in which the activities were conducted is really abhorrent but only to the like of this quasi-security officer.

Having failed to establish any link between any security threat in whatever form and any conduct of any of the members of the Islamic Movement, the robocop resorted to falsehood and half-truth with some measured flavour of mis- and dis- information to the hierarchy. Luckily enough not everybody is below par upstairs.

As such this treacherous enterprise should be condemned by all peace loving compatriots. So also the misadventure of The Punch Newspaper disguised as editorial.