Sambisa Discoveries - Politics

BY the last count, almost 700 women and children have been rescued from Sambisa Forest, where insurgents have made their base f0r attacks on Nigeria.

There have been more revelations than the discoveries show. We are learning more about the forest. Some work needs to be done to ascertain where those rescued are from and possibly how they got t0 the forest which has been the dreaded base of the terrorists who hold North East hostage, and account for most of the bomb attacks in Nigerian cities as far as Abuja and parts in Kogi State.

Who were rescued? Where are they from? How did they get into the forest? How were they abducted, if that was the case? Could they be inhabitants of the forest? Did they play any role in the raging war? Click here to watch video

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The claims are that the attackers took them, killed their husbands and the grown up boys and kept the women and children. Apparently, the rescued are not among the 279 secondary schools girls that were taken from Chibok, in Borno State, more than a year ago. Once the news of the rescue made the rounds, expectations were that some of the Chibok girls would be among them. They may still be, or in the next set to be rescued.

Combined attacks of soldiers from Nigeria, Cameroun, and Chad have put a lot of pressure on the insurgents. They have lost a lot of territories and the results have included securing places that were under insurgents and the rescue of the women and children. Improved supply of weapons and logistics has contributed to the successes after earlier unsuccessful attempts to purchase arms for the operations.

The United States of America and its allies maintained ambivalent postures on selling arms to Nigeria. Nigeria finally made the purchases from Russia, a decision that infuriated the Americans who have kept making unsavoury remarks about the battles in the North East, accusing the Nigerian military of human rights violations. America’s human rights records in the 20-year-old war in Vietnam are not exactly sparkling, 40 years after the war and with thousands of books written and hundreds of films made promoting America’s “good war” against communism.

Findings in Sambisa raise questions about our national records of Nigerians and the implications for our safety. Thousands were abducted to Sambisa and Nigeria was “unaware”. People were not declared missing, and when “found”, we have no records to establish if they are Nigerians. Can we protect people we cannot count? The rescued are more than the size of most Nigerian villages. How could they miss and we did not know? Sambisa is more – we should abridge the “celebrations”.

SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/sambisa-discoveries/#sthash.pcGo3ANl.dpuf