Terrorism and Corruption in Nigeria: Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos and CBCN President Calls on the International Community to Support Mass Revolt in Nigeria

"The government seems helpless. The security agents, even though they are all over the place, don't seem to provide the security that would allow people to go about their normal business peacefully," Kaigama told Vatican Radio when he was interviewed Monday in Rimini, Italy, where he addressed a meeting of the Communion and Liberation lay movement (See http://ncronline.org/news/global/archbishop-asks-international-help-stop-terrorism-nigeria )

Archbishop Kaigama is correct on the submissions he has made about the security situation in the country and the intervening variables as well as the far reaching implications that might arise there from. 

However, as a theologian and a researcher on the Nigerian situation, I wish to say that the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has not been realistic with the situation on ground.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the ruling party is playing this game of terror and corruption in Nigeria pursuant to a project that is best known to them. 

Just today the Sahara Reporters, an online news agency committed to the fight against corruption in Nigeria, published that President Goodluck Jonathan pays billions of dollars to three former militant warlords in the Niger Delta <http://saharareporters.com/news-page/prpresident-jonathans-high-priced-militants-asari-dokubo-tompolo-ateke-tom-paid-millions-d> . Prominent Northerners are very much aware of this long before now and they are using terrorism - the same tool that the militants employed to prosecute their own war against the inhuman exploitation of the Niger Delta by the Federal Government - to drive their grievances home, because violence, they seem to reason, is the only language that the PDP speaks and understands fluently.

 To the uninitiated, the real content of Boko Haram agitation is abysmally intangible but its method is very cruelly impacting. But make no mistake about it, Boko Haram has its audience and it is really talking.

 It is only that a negligible corrupt few have hijacked the machinery of government and imposed themselves on the rest of the peace loving and enterprising people of Nigeria and have illicitly used the name of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to buy and recklessly exercise the terror brand of power.

Having read the letter of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict  XVI welcoming delegates to the 33rd Rimini Meeting, an annual gathering organized by the lay Catholic movement Communion & Liberation < http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-benedict-we-are-made-for-the-infinite >, I am all the more convinced on the position the MarysRose Organization has taken in regard of the problems facing the country. In accord with the message of the Holy Father to the Liberation movement but in the words of Karl Rahner, I am fully convinced that:

The Economic Trinity is one and at the same time the Immanent

Trinity, and vice visa.

Now it has dawned on the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) to seek external help in the fight against terrorism and corruption, it is pertinent to let the international community, especially the kind that is animated by the Communion and Liberation lay movement of the Church, know that the only way it can help Nigeria on the war against terrorism and corruption is to support the masses bring about a non-violent revolution. This is a confirmed message by the Blessed Virgin Mary, and one that has been long overdue.

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