By Adeola Aderounmu
Nigeria probably deserved to be there because Northern Nigeria is dominated by Sharia law and extremists who have slaughtered and killed Christians over the years without facing judgement.
Nigeria’s former president Mr. Obasanjo allowed the thoughtless governors in Northern Nigeria including Mr. Yar Adua to establish Sharia states. As the president from 1999-2007 he could have weird his presidential authority (even if that confirms his military background for a good purpose) to stop those fools from establishing sharia states within a secular country.
By turning his face away and doing nothing Mr. Obasanjo and the lazy Northern governors committed acts of treason, among many other crimes, against the Nigerian nation. The 2009 Christmas day Nigerian bomber is the certificate and climax for the crimes of both the Nigerian rulers and a failed parenthood.
However Mr. Obama the American president and those who decided to place Nigeria on the list of countries of terrorists are either myopic or simply blinded by what we continue to unfold as the future of terrorism.
A number of the perpetrators of the 9-11 terror attack on the US trained both in Germany and the US. They were trained by Americans and probably Germans. That way they are not different from Abdulmuttalab who was trained in Yemen. Yemen and Nigeria are on terror list. In my opinion Germany and the US are on top of the terror list.
I cannot count how many terrorists have emerged from the UK. Those in incubation as we have been told far outnumbered those we have seen. In that sense the UK occupies the number one spot of terrorist countries.
You see Mr. Obama, double standards cannot save or rescue the world. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. You cannot put Nigeria on the list of terrorist countries while closing your eyes to the past or the precedents and even ignoring threats from within your domains.
But let me help you. I am Nigerian and I know that if care is not taken, Nigeria will disintegrate even before the 2015 as predicted. I hate what is called governance in Nigeria. It’s too corrupt for me to behold. I know corruption is worldwide trait but the dimension and the effects in my Nigeria make me sick. I am frustrated. I am so frustrated by the never improving status of my country despite our intelligence, oil wealth and vast human resources. Our expanse of mineral and agricultural diversities lay in fallow or in ruins. We are so graciously blessed but largely living in penury-more than 70% of Nigerians are living in unnecessary poverty. We deserve a better life for real!
Hence I reckon with you the ease with which you can place Nigeria on the terror list. But that doesn’t stop me from pointing out to you that the US, Britain and Germany in my mind, are terrorist nations as well. I believe I have a right to my own judgement too. The recent killings of Americans by an American man at a military base point to the constancy of America as a nation of terrorists. A number of American citizens are scattered worldwide planning terror to be executed in America or on Americans. Remember the arrest in Pakistan?
My advice to you is to review the list of terrorist countries. You have to base your conclusions on sound judgments and not sentiments or witch-hunting. How can Nigeria be on the list of terrorist countries for the same reason that have left out the US, UK and Germany? That I don’t get but I do understand our peculiarity as highlighted above.
But now I can argue that Nigeria should not be on the terror list because Abdulmuttalab is not a symbol of Nigeria.
A View From The Scandinavian 
Well said Adeola.The double standard is what I hate about these people.
When the US went to Afghanistan immediately after 9-11, John, the American Taiban was captured right at the war front; when he was been interrogated, his friends overran the CIA men interrogating him and killed them. John the Taiban from California was taken, not to Gauantanamo prison but to another prison where he was detained. He was later sentenced to 12 years imprisonment which many saw as protective custody to prevent him from lynching by people who lost family members on that day.
Moreover, his folks defended him saying he went to Afghanistan searching for his personality or something like that. You see, the father of the Nigerian bomber actually REPORTED his son to the American Embassy which failed to act on the information given. If the father of the American Taliban did that, there would not have been 9/11! Instead of commending the father and Nigeria, these hypocrites have put us terrorist list. that the West for you! That is how they glorify vilify others who do exactly what they do. When Sadaam Hussein was their stooge, he was okay. They turned a blind eye to his atrocities. But when he turned against them, they suddenly became aware of his satanic activities, forgetting that any leader who feels threatened will do anything to secure his country and his hold on the reins of power. The early we learn that what is good for the goose is good for the gander the better. Enough of this Animal Farm saga.
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