Dear Management and staff of Bokoharam,
Our hearts are full of sadness and pain
as we write you today dated 2nd December, 2014. We are fully convinced
that you will see, read, and reflect over the content of this letter. We
stand in the gap for ALL Nigerian Women representing every female baby,
child, girl and adult. We could as well pass for your mothers, sisters,
wives and daughters because we know for sure that you have women in
your individual lives.
It is a well known fact globally that
women bear the brunt of violence and terrorism and this has been the
glaring case in Nigeria since you came on the scene with your violent
strategies that has practically rendered our Northern States
incapacitated.
We have suffered exorbitantly from the
venom of your anger and violence that we are left in awe of what you
really want from all these. You have maimed, murdered, slaughtered and
killed our children, husbands and relations like rams in the abattoirs.
We have been
thrown into consistent mourning, weeping and gnashing of teeth from the
deep seated wounds you have engraved in our hearts and in this moment of
despair we silently wish we had not given birth to you. We do not
communicate this wish but that is how we feel. Sure, if you were not
born, we would have had a society without bokoharam.
How happy we were when we were told that
we were pregnant for you? We were so happy and our joy knew no bounds
when we announced your presence to your fathers. We celebrated, danced
and made merry at your birth because we thought we were blessed with
male children whom used to be the pride of our nation. We were very
proud to be called Uwar, Mama, and Iya – Shekau, Mohammed, Sani,
Murktar, Obere etc.
Today, the sadness in our Spirit has
deleted the happiness and curiosity we felt when we carried you in our
wombs for 9 months. We are even deeply saddened when we see your age
groups who have made Nigeria proud by standing out in the crowd like the
shining amour.
Now, you will want to defend your
actions by saying you were not given equal grounds. You could even argue
that it is one of the reasons why you are fighting. The truth is that
they faced their own challenges as well but refused to succumb to the
dark path of terrorism which you have chosen.
You even said you are fighting for God but any God who cannot fight
for him/herself is definitely not qualified to be God. The God we serve
is meant to fight for us not the other way around. How can you, a mere
mortal fight for an immortal God?
Your actions against us are far hurting
than the pain and labour of child birth. Remember, when you kidnapped
the CHIBOK girls? We went crazy, many of us died imagining what our
daughters were going through in your hands. We walked the streets of
Nigeria calling for their release.
Some of us even walked naked with tears
streaming down our eyes and breasts but all fell on your deaf ears. The
whole world joined in the campaign but mercy did not touch your hearts
to release the girls. We can’t believe, we gave birth to you.
Till today, the girls left in your
custody will continue to be the memories of the carnage of your
destruction forever. You boldly told us that you have married them off.
Married them off to whom? Many of them are already pregnant with your
breeds that definitely will carry on your nefarious acts.
Will you truly rejoice when those
children are born knowing you have sacrificed their lives in the altar
of darkness? How happy will you be when someone else kidnap your
children and marry them off without your consent? Don’t you know that
what ever comes around goes around?
At will, you bombed the market places
being fully aware we are always at the markets struggling to make a
living for our children. You bombed the schools at will being fully
aware that our children are there. At will you bombed the churches and
the mosques being fully aware that we are always there praying for our
families which includes you. You have destroyed our homes and made us
refugees in our own country and we now live off charities.
The war you have declared on Nigeria is
actually war against WOMEN. What did we do to deserve these? What really
is your intention? We know. Yes, you thought that by declaring war
against Women that the government will surrender to you? You are
absolutely wrong.
Do you not see that irrespective of your
nefarious acts that the government hardly pays attention other than
send few words of condolences to us? Do you not see that their main
preoccupation is their campaign for 2015 elections? Do you not see that
their lives are filled with luxury and numerous trips abroad? Do you not
know that their children are all away from Nigeria? You see, you can
never get their attention by putting us through sleepless nights because
you are not priority to them at all.
We actually thought that the worst you
could do was the kidnap of the CHIBOK girls but alas! You came along
with another strategy – using women and girls as suicide bombers! Using
our daughters to destroy us? Oh! how evil can you get? This is the final
straw!
The only offence we committed against
you is giving birth to you. We wish we can turn back the hand of time.
We wish we had power to see into the future -today. May be we would
have taken critical decision about your birth.
However we wish, we cannot change the
time but you can change because we know that deep down your hearts are
the cheerful and loving sons we had and are proud of.
It is time to sheath your swords! It is
time to label correctly and address the issues of your grievances
accordingly! It is time you stop this violence against Women! It is 16
days of activism! It is your time for change!
On behalf of Nigerian Women whom you
have abused sexually, emotionally, physically, rendered childless,
turned to widows and refugees.
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