Boko Haram Republic in concerned northern states is not a bad idea.
It will at least stop the incessant killings of non- indigenes in the
name of religion because the residents will be protected by
international laws and perpetuators of such wanton killings could be
treated as war criminals by the ICC.
The Boko Haram Republic should comprise of all the states where the
populace through a majority vote have rejected the Federal Republic of
Nigeria as presently constituted. A lot of people have argued that a
Boko Haram Republic will not survive. I have a different opinion that a
properly managed Boko Haram Republic which adheres to the tenets of
Islam will survive and excel as a model for others to copy, provided the
murderers now driving the Boko Haram train are replaced by refined
Islamic professionals, bureaucrats, scholars and the more liberal
Islamic middle class in Nigeria.
Boko Haram Republic will naturally be governed by strict Islamic
principles. Foreigners living in the Islamic Republic will know ab
-initio the conditions of their residency and will most likely not run
into problems with the Islamic State. Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq are all Islamic Republics and foreigners are
not killed at random. This is because they know from the onset the
migration and residency conditions and they stick to it. If the Boko
Haram Republic says close your shops every Friday between 12-4pm , then
every foreigner will adhere and there will be less reasons for
frictions.
Boko Haram Republic with the present mood of the north, will
definitely stamp out corruption. The north have ruled Nigeria for forty
years out of fifty two years of existence and produced leaders stepped
in corruption. This republic will likely round up the looters and cut
off their hands according to Sharia laws. Once hand cutting equipment is
imported from China, Taiwan or Japan, there will be no need for EFCC,
ICPC or other anti graft agencies. Those leaders who stole the north
blind and underdeveloped them will either return the loot or face a hand
cutting punishment. Billions of dollars and trillions of naira stolen
by their leaders will be surrendered for accelerated development of the
region.
The northern Muslim has so much dehumanized the womenfolk that a
man has four wives, which is legal in Islam, and 24 ex- wives. The
mischievous man eliminates old ones and adds fresh new ones just to
maintain the legal four. The former governor of Zamfara State married
thirteen wives, divorced nine, remaining four. This is not in accordance
with the spirit of Islam. It is a Nigerian way of circumventing the
strict provisions and conditions of divorce according to Islamic
traditions. In the Boko Haram Republic, there will be strict adherence
to the rules of marriage and strict conditions for divorce.
In the Boko Haram Republic, there will be no beer parlor for people
to revel in alcoholic drinks. The citizens have to make do with soft
drinks, Kunu, Zobo, Nunu and other healthy drinks. All the diseases and
malfeasance associated with alcohol will disappear and the state funds
will be diverted to other purposes. Those civil servants who hide under
beer parlors at close of work will have no option than to go home.
The Boko Haram Republic will not tolerate prostitution therefore
those politicians who send their aides to the streets to get a harem of
babes for weekend will be made to stick to their legally married wives
and allow the young girls to find another means of livelihood. Equally,
men will learn to go home to their spouse and children after a hard
day’s work instead of salivating around street corners looking for
daughters of eve.
Boko Haram Republic will eliminate wastages in governance. All
these exotic houses, cars and luxury ways of life would easily attract
venom and resentment. Therefore, those who oppress the northern masses
by flaunting their excessive wealth would either behave themselves
moderately or relocate to Nigeria. Therefore, there will be less social
tensions, agitations and less incentive to get rich quick which is
injurious to any society it exists.
Boko Haram Republic will have no option than to invest in the
education of the female child. The medical industry in the north is
still dominated by males and it is suspicious for male doctors to treat
female patients in most Islamic nations, therefore the republic will
have no option than to accelerate the educational development of their
women in the fields of medicine and other aspects of human endeavor.
Cost of living in the Boko Haram Republic will be very low. With as
low as one naira, one could have a plate of Tuwo Shinkafa or a plate of
pepper soup in a street corner , under shades of trees, and enjoy the
full ambience of nature while savoring the meal. Simply put, life will
be easy and there will be fewer agitations, less pressure and fewer
cases of medical conditions associated with stress.
The Boko Haram Republic in question must not be led by Alhaji
Shekau. He has so much blood on his hands and is morally not better than
the change he wants to engineer. It must be pioneered by educated,
refined and humane northern Muslims, and many of them abound, who will
utilize the benefits of western education while rejecting the excesses
of modernity associated with it. These leaders will know the difference
between western education and misuse of western education.
If the Federal Republic of Nigeria continues to wallow in
monumental corruption, injustice, electoral fraud, poverty, disease,
murders, mediocrity and criminality and the Boko Haram Republic is able
to entrench justice, fairness, security, electoral and financial
integrity, hand cutting anti corruption mechanism and curtail excessive
materialism, in a matter of years Nigerian residents will begin to apply
for visa to live in the Boko Haram Republic. This Boko Haram Republic
idea should not be a product of bombings, murder and senseless waste of
human lifes , rather a product of consensus and sovereign conference.
Source: Obinna Akukwe
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