At
the beginning of the week, the terrorist group Boko Haram attacked a boarding
school in Northern Nigeria and kidnapped over 130 student girls. They came with
trucks and other vehicles and could move around and leave with the victims, all
of this in a State that is supposed to be heavy patrolled by the Nigerian Army.
Since then, notwithstanding the fact that the Army launched a major operation,
the terrorists and the girls have not been found. This is again raising a
number of very fundamental questions about the capacity of the national
authorities to address the challenges Boko Haram poses. Something is very wrong
in the way the Nigerian leaders are responding to Boko Haram.
The
neighbouring countries, particularly Chad, and the friends of Nigeria are
getting very worried. The terrorists are just becoming too big a menace.
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