I\u2019m in the Nigerian army a few years ago when Muslim insurgents of Boko Haram start killing people in the north and demand girls stop attending Western schools and establish harsh rules supposedly found in the Koran. I don\u2019t know or care about that stuff and doubt President Goodluck Jonathan does, either. Like me, he\u2019s a Christian from the south, and we know his religion is being president and why he restricts a half million undisciplined soldiers and tells Muslim leaders in the north to handle the increasing violence of Boko Haram. <\/p>\n
\tI guarantee soldiers feel it when their leader doesn\u2019t want to fight. Why should we be in the field without enough ammunition and supplies and get paid shit for interminable tours during which we eat slop? After that, who wants to fight guys with more firepower? I\u2019m tired of seeing friends blown away. The last time we\u2019re ambushed I\u2019m the only guy left and about to eat the Boko Haram rifle in my face but shout, I want to learn more about the Koran. <\/p>\n
You appear to be a competent soldier, so we may teach you.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m very grateful. Our leader Abubakar Shekau is more dynamic than Goodluck Jonathan. Give him several billion dollars a year and a half million men and see what he does. Even now we usually rout the soldiers. They don\u2019t care three hundred girls are kidnapped. I don\u2019t think Jonathan cares, either, and his wife Patience recently says she doubts the kidnappings really happened and if they did regional officials are responsible because they allowed girls to take Western exams. <\/p>\n
\tThe girls can return home soon as they\u2019re exchanged for some of our imprisoned comrades. That\u2019s fair. Meanwhile the girls are wearing hijabs and studying the Koran and learning about the evil West. We want everyone in the north, and eventually everyone in Nigeria, to lead a proper Muslim life.<\/p>\n
\tToday I\u2019m in a uniform like the one I used to wear. My comrades are also in uniforms, and riding Toyota pickup trucks we race into a village that asked government soldiers to protect it: we\u2019re here, and you\u2019ll be safe, quick, everyone into the center of the village. At least a hundred children, women, and men are herded there, and we shout, Allah is great, and start firing and keep firing and when they\u2019re all on the ground we walk through them and fire some more. A few people escape but we\u2019ve got guys in bushes and on motorcycles outside the village to finish up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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