Boko Haram and Working class Alternative
Boko Haram and Working class Alternative Written August, 2009 A government that has destroyed the foundation of a sane society will find it comfortable to vent its frustration on the symptom of the decay than redressing itself. This actually captured the recent mass slaughter of members of the Boko Haram sect. The manner in which the media addresses the issue is worrying. While reports revealed that over 700 people were killed in Borno State alone and several houses destroyed, public commentators especially the media concentrated on the criminal murder of the head of the sect, Muhammed Yussuf. There were attempts to obscure who actually killed hundreds of people while there seems to be a sigh of relief after the mass murder and in fact the murder of Muhammed, that at least the ‘terrorists have been subsumed. But, is this a civilized way of resolving social crisis? Aside the over fifteen Christians and few policemen reported to have been gruesomely murdered, and scores of