What effrontery! How can an
ordinary 17-year-old girl fly from wherever she may be staying into our own
country to ask our powerful president and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces to ensure that the abducted Chibok girls be rescued? Who does she think
she is? What audacity! Does she think our government does not know what it’s
doing? Does she think flying into our country to identify with the abducted
girls will achieve anything? Who told her the girls were kidnapped in the first
place? Did the United Nations Secret Service tell her that? Or was it the
Interpol, CIA, MI6? Who?
How can a teenager whose country
is also not safe come into our country to dictate to our president what to do?
Can she do that in her own country? What impudence! This is why I am asking the
Federal Government of Nigeria to order the arrest of the presumptuous Malala
Yousafzai for disrespect, impertinence, ignorance and arrogance. She should be
arrested and taught the lesson of her life. She should be made to know that in Africa,
we respect our elders and that younger ones cannot talk to elders anyhow. She must
be prosecuted for thinking she can achieve what the irrepressible Madam Oby
Ezekwesili, Japheth Omojuwa and others have been trying to achieve for months. She
should be arrested and we will see what the United Nations will do. I hope you
agree with my reasons for calling for Malala’s arrest and prosecution.
Who is Malala Yousafzai? I have
written twice about Malala and her conviction on this blog. She has earned my
respect and admiration. Her life has been an inspiration to me and many others,
and I hope her visit to Nigeria will put great pressure on the Federal
Government of Nigeria to be responsive to its responsibilities towards the
abducted Chibok girls and their families. Already, we are seeing the results of her visit. It was reported that the President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed tomeet the parents of the abducted girls, seven of whom are said to be dead.
But isn’t it curious that the
government had to wait till a foreigner, a teenager came to speak for the
abducted girls’ families before agreeing to meet with them? It is sad that our
government immune to the ‘tokunbo’ bug because the same thing Malala is
requesting is what the Bring Back Our Girls Campaigners have been asking the
government to do. But the government’s response has been to intimidate, harass and
even arrest the Bring Back Our Girls Campaigners.
Why has the government not
accused Malala of being a member of the opposition? Why has the government not
alleged that Malala is trying to destabilise the peace of the country?
One thing is sure: Malala’s visit
to Nigeria has reinforced the legitimacy and morality of the Bring Back Our Girls
Campaign. Maybe now the harassment and intimidation of the campaigners will
stop. I join other Nigerians to appreciate Malala for coming to ask the
government to do all that is necessary for the release of the seized girls. If it
takes Malala to come to Nigeria for the girls to be rescued, it is okay with
us. All we want is for the government to #BringBackOurGirls!
THANK YOU MALALA!
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