A letter to Boko Haram

2014-12-09 21:33
Dear Management and staff of Boko Haram,
It is with a heart full of sadness and pain that
we write to you today dated 2 December,
2014. We are fully convinced that you will see,
read, and reflect over the content of this letter.
I stand in the gap for ALL Nigerian Women
representing every female baby, child, girl and
adult. We could as well pass for your mothers,
sisters, wives and daughters because we know
for sure that you have women in your
individual lives.
It is a well known fact globally that woman
bears the brunt of violence and terrorism and
this has been the glaring case in Nigeria since
you came on the scene with your violent
strategies that has practically rendered our
Northern States incapacitated. We have
suffered exorbitantly from the venom of your
anger and violence that we are left in awe of
what you really want from all these.
You have maimed, murdered, slaughtered and
killed our children, husbands and relations like
rams in the abattoirs. We have been thrown
into consistent mourning, weeping and
gnashing of teeth from the deep seated
wounds you have engraved in our hearts and
in this moment of despair we silently wish we
had you aborted when you came into our
wombs as fetus.
We do not communicate this wish but that is
how we feel. Sure, if we had you aborted when
we received the test results of your
pregnancies, we would have had a society
without Boko Haram. How happy we were
when we were told that we were pregnant for
you? We were so happy and our joy knew no
bounds when we announced your presence to
your fathers. We celebrated, danced and made
merry at your birth because we thought we
were blessed with male children who used to
be the pride of our nation. We were proud to
be called Uwar, Mama, and Iya - Shekau,
Mohammed, Sani, Murktar, Obere etc.
Today, the sadness in our Spirit has deleted
the happiness and curiosity we felt when we
carried you in our wombs for 9 months. We
are even deeply saddened when we see your
age groups who have made Nigeria proud by
standing out in the crowd like the shining
amour. Now, you will want to defend your
actions by saying you were not given equal
grounds. You could even argue that that is
one reason why you are fighting, but the truth
is that they faced their own challenges as well
but refused to succumb to the dark terrorism
path which you have chosen.
You even said you are fighting for God but any
God who cannot fight for him/herself is
definitely not qualified to be God. The God we
serve is meant to fight for us not the other.
How can you, a mere mortal fight for an
immortal God?
Your actions against us are far hurting than
the pain and labour of child birth. Remember,
when you kidnapped the CHIBOK girls? We
went crazy, many of us died imagining what
our daughters were going through in your
hands. We walked the streets of Nigeria
calling for their release. Some of us even
walked naked with tears streaming down our
eyes but all fell on your deaf ears.
The whole world joined the campaign but
mercy did not touch your hearts to release the
girls. We can’t believe, we gave birth to you.
Till today, the girls left in your custody will
continue to be the memories of the carnage of
your destruction forever. You boldly told us
that you have married them off. Married them
off to whom? Many of them are already
pregnant with your breeds that definitely will
carry on your nefarious acts.
Will you truly rejoice when those children are
born knowing you have sacrificed their lives in
the altar of darkness? How happy will you be
when someone else kidnap your children and
marry them off without your consent?
At will, you bombed the market places being
fully aware we are always at the markets
struggling to make a living for our children.
You bombed the schools at will being fully
aware that our children are there. At will you
bombed the churches and the mosques being
fully aware that we are always there praying
for our families which includes you. You have
destroyed our homes and made us refugees in
our own country and we now live off charities.
The war you have declared on Nigeria is
actually war against WOMEN. What did we do
to deserve these?
What really is your intention? We know. Yes,
you thought that by declaring war against us
that the government will surrender to you?
You are absolutely wrong. Do you not see that
irrespective of your nefarious acts that the
government hardly pays attention other than
send few words of condolences to us? Do you
not see that their main preoccupation is their
campaign for 2015 elections? Do you not see
that their lives are filled with luxury and
numerous trips abroad? Do you not know that
their children are all away from Nigeria? You
see, you can never get their attention by
putting us through sleepless nights because
you are not priority to them at all.
We actually thought that the worst you could
do was the kidnap of the CHIBOK girls but
alas! You came along with another strategy –
using women and girls as suicide bombers!
Using our daughters to destroy us? Oh how
evil can you get? This is the final straw!
The only offence we committed against you is
giving birth to you. We wish we can turn back
the hand of time to when you were in our
wombs, we wouldn’t have thought twice about
aborting you regardless of what the law and
religion say.
However we wish, we cannot change the time
but you can change because we know that
deep down your heart lies those cheerful and
loving sons we had and are proud of. It is
time to sheath your swords! It is time to label
correctly and address the issues of your
grievances accordingly! It is time you stop this
violence against women! It is the 16 days of
activism! It is your time for change!