Jonathan’s chief negotiator implicates Boko Haram sponsors By: Peregrino Brimah

In the AriseTv interview of August 28th, 2014, Dr. Stephen
Davis a chief Boko Haram negotiator hired by the President of
Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to engage the terrorists to
help free the abducted Chibok 234 Angels, made several
important revelations
Dr. Davis clearly stated that the former governor of Borno
state, Ali Modu Sheriff has been sponsoring the terrorist group
for so many years and it defeats the imagination why the
Goodluck administration has refused to arrest him; and why
even the EFCC has not gone after him for his immeasurable
corruption.
Jonathan’s chief negotiator, Dr. Davis further revealed that
the former Chief of Army staff, General Ihejirika was also a
clear-cut sponsor of the terrorist group. A third important point the President’s negotiator posited was
that there was no way the terror in Nigeria could be ended if
the sponsors remained free. In essence, as the President of
Nigeria continued to dine and dance with these known people
including other politicians, mostly from the north, Boko Haram
will clearly continue to kill and destroy Nigerians in the north.
On January 15th of this year I penned a strong and
unapologetic, widely read article pressing or rather begging for
the President of Nigeria to arrest Ali Modu Sheriff, SAS.In
the article, on behalf of Nigeria, I begged the President to
arrest this known Boko Haram founder. Rather than arrest
him, Nigeria’s president pulled him closer like a sibling and
gave him unprecedented access to further terrorize the people
of Borno and Nigeria at large. The President of Nigeria
opened the Borno airport, closed for Borno citizens and for
Hajj operations; for Ali Modu Sheriff to land in Borno in grand
style. Note- Goodluck Jonathan in August of 2012 defended
Boko Haram as “his siblings” and stated that them being his
family, was why he refused Nigerians demands for him to send
the army to crush them. In response, the Christian Association
of Nigeria, CAN told him to resign.
Borno youth Civilian JTF who I represent have pursued sponsors
of Boko Haram like Modu Sheriff, attempting to burn their
houses; but the Nigerian President has protected them when
they run to him in Abuja, unable to remain in Borno. This has
been sheer terror to our people. As President Jonathan’s chief negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis
said, unless the President of Nigeria arrests these sponsors,
terror will continue. In effect, by leaving the sponsors free to
continue to perpetrate their terror, Nigeria’s President is
himself directly implicated in sponsoring Boko Haram and
should be arrested and tried for our deaths.
As relates to retired Chief of Army Staff, General Ihejirika
who Jonathan’s negotiator, Stephen Davis also clearly
implicated as a Boko Haram sponsor; I am not privy to the
information Davis has. Stephen Davis said that several Boko
Haram commanders implicated these men as their sponsors and
as the ones who ordered targeted assassinations of Nigerians.
Importantly, there is no single Nigerian who can deny the role
of the Nigerian military Chiefs since Ihejirika’s time of
directly and indirectly promoting Boko Haram terror. We have
had too many reports to ignore of the army conveniently being
ordered to pullout hours or days before Boko Haram terror
attacks. Too many! The liability for these treacherous crimes
of the army rests on the COAS’s feet.
On May 8th of 2013, when we could no longer take it as Boko
Haram gained control of over 20 Local Governments in Borno
and the COAS Ihejirika did nothing, I was invited to join an
international think-tank and we released a very important
article in Nigeria’s history. “ Nigeria At War .” In the article we
described how the Nigerian army under Ihejirika and
ultimately President Jonathan, the C-in-C was deliberately
sabotaging the war against Boko Haram and we prescribed the
need for urgent steps including the declaration of a State of
Emergency and the immediate drafting of battalions to the
north. It can be recalled that after this article went viral on
the media, Nigeria’s President cut his trip to Namibia and ran
to Nigeria and days later, finally declared a State of
Emergency in the northeast and sent Brigades up north. Boko Harm today is armed with ammunition from the Nigerian
military stock, they freely drive APC’s and tanks from the
Nigerian military; it goes without saying that the past and
current Generals and Chiefs of the army are benefitting
largely from Boko Haram carnage and undermine the arming
of Nigeria’s soldiers allowing them to be sitting ducks for Boko
Haram terrorists to prolong the war and the genocide in
Nigeria’s north. The army is responsible for protecting the
vehicles and ammunition they took up north. Rather they allow
Boko Haram to seize these easily and never bomb them from
the sky when they drive in convoys in Nigeria’s military
vehicles.
General Ihejirika’s was known to have discretely pulled
together a powerful army who were not even told their mission,
and rapidly sent them to ambush and capture and kill
kidnappers who were destroying his home state of Abia, but
when his duty was to protect the people of Borno and the
northeast, he suddenly became handicapped… the General was
reported by so many military soldiers including top army
commanders who complained bitterly that the COAS only gave
the soldiers one or two rounds of ammunition and opposed the
drafting of the military when they requested and argued for
more troops. These moves allowed Boko Haram to easily kill
Nigeria’s soldiers and overrun the military barracks, obtaining
all the weapons and tools in store.
It is important to remind Nigeria that Stephen Davis, in the
past has fingered former NSA, Spy Aliyu Gusau in the success
of Boko HaramSurprisingly, President Jonathan hired the very
Gusau as Nigeria’s minister of defense, bringing him too close
as his “sibling.”
Nigerians wait to see what the action of Nigeria’s weak,
clueless and terror facilitator President will do in response to
the revelations of this negotiator employed by his government.
It is also time international parties assist Nigerians trapped
under this terror regime.