Andimi's Murder: Wickedness took flesh
I've tried so hard to just let the beheading of Pastor Lawan Andimi, who until his horrific death was the chair of CAN in Michika area of Adamawa state, Nigeria by members of Boko Haram, pass away just like some of the heinous acts meted upon innocent citizens of this country and which we obviously couldn't do much to change.
I have tried and continue to try, but to no avail.
It's in response to that impulse and the ultimate resolve to say how much dismayed and totally devastated I am at the murder of this Reverend in the most barbaric, most cruel and the most unimaginable wicked manner that could be thought of. He was brutally beheaded in the most gruesome manner by his heartless abductors.
Pastor Andimi was kidnapped when militias of the islamist sect invaded his community some two weeks earlier. And unfortunately, he was taken captive, with video of his captivity circulated by those who got him in thraldom. In that video, the man could be seen practically begging for his life, asking those whose responsibility are to protect and whose obvious failure of leadership had brought about this endemic threat to ensure he's released.
The eventual hacking to death of Rev Andimi was a result of the failure of both the federal and state governments to secure his release, just as the same failure led to his unfortunate kidnap. If the various governments (especially the federal) had done the needful, especially in coming out with the truth about the mesmeriszation it has found itself in the effort to tackle this menace, if it could come out boldly with the Boko Haram truth about its commitment to degrade the invading marauders, at least may be this fine gentleman wouldn't have been kidnapped firstly.
If the government, in the aftermath of the kidnap (which its failure provided), had taken measures, bold enough, even when the ultimatum over his death was declared, somehow he would have been saved. But the worst happened to Andimi and within such a sphere of a highfalutin declaration and the maintained stance by the government that the terrorists have been technically defeated.
Indeed, it's a shame to the Federal government that a defeated force is still inflicting so a terrific horror on its citizen. It, in no small measure ,mock the assertion of what has continued to be shown as governmental deceit.
I have tried and continue to try, but to no avail.
It's in response to that impulse and the ultimate resolve to say how much dismayed and totally devastated I am at the murder of this Reverend in the most barbaric, most cruel and the most unimaginable wicked manner that could be thought of. He was brutally beheaded in the most gruesome manner by his heartless abductors.
Pastor Andimi was kidnapped when militias of the islamist sect invaded his community some two weeks earlier. And unfortunately, he was taken captive, with video of his captivity circulated by those who got him in thraldom. In that video, the man could be seen practically begging for his life, asking those whose responsibility are to protect and whose obvious failure of leadership had brought about this endemic threat to ensure he's released.
The eventual hacking to death of Rev Andimi was a result of the failure of both the federal and state governments to secure his release, just as the same failure led to his unfortunate kidnap. If the various governments (especially the federal) had done the needful, especially in coming out with the truth about the mesmeriszation it has found itself in the effort to tackle this menace, if it could come out boldly with the Boko Haram truth about its commitment to degrade the invading marauders, at least may be this fine gentleman wouldn't have been kidnapped firstly.
If the government, in the aftermath of the kidnap (which its failure provided), had taken measures, bold enough, even when the ultimatum over his death was declared, somehow he would have been saved. But the worst happened to Andimi and within such a sphere of a highfalutin declaration and the maintained stance by the government that the terrorists have been technically defeated.
Indeed, it's a shame to the Federal government that a defeated force is still inflicting so a terrific horror on its citizen. It, in no small measure ,mock the assertion of what has continued to be shown as governmental deceit.
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