Abduction of Schoolgirls: The beginning of unravelling criminal administration of Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria by Faseyiku

The abduction of the over two hundred young girls by the Boko Haram terrorist organisation is just the beginning of the unravelling of the ineffectual but criminal administration of Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria.


This administration, like every myopic corrupt governments, underestimated the significance of the abduction saga. Because the Nigerian government has traditionally abdicated its own responsibility to the Nigerian people, preferring rather to concentrate on the "non stop stealing" of public resources and monumental mismanagement of the economy, with the international community appearing to look the other way or impotent in the collapse of governance in the country, the Nigerian administration failed to acknowledge that the West takes seriously any attack on defenseless targets.



The management of the Chibok abduction has been monumentally tardy to say the least. The president coming out to say "we don't know where these girls are" was irresponsible and disastrous from an information management perspective. Even if he had said a daring raid wasn't being contemplated at the moment due to negative risk assessment to the lives of the abducted girls and or a rescue operational plan could not be divulged on national TV, he would have conveyed a reasoned but ongoing background activity in relation to these girls. But to flatly indicate that his government simply didn't do or know anything and had no way to know or do anything was too great a disaster to be ignored in the corridors of military power and diplomatic influence in the West.


Whether they want to admit it or not, the ineffectuality of this government has been finally unmasked. Coupled with the criminal corruption in Abuja that is ceaseless, nations that have deep political and economic interests to preserve now know that change is imperative come next election.


How to ensure that the change is orderly, free, fair and essentially democratic is, perhaps, the challenge. And to also ensure that the change will not be from the ineffectual to the abysmal. This is where social media has a strong role to play in mobilising and educating Nigerians about their historic responsibility to generations yet unborn.


We all have a role to rescue the nation from its current undertakers and pillagers. If with the entire paraphernalia of power and infrastructures of military engagement, the Jonathan administration isn't able to resolve the abduction of only 240 odd citizens, how will it guarantee the safety of our cities and our communities going forward?