Very good work by Dave Workman:
While today’s continuing coverage
of the mass kidnapping of girls in northeast Nigeria includes the
revelation that Nigerian security forces allegedly had advanced warning
of the raid, the mainstream press is largely ignoring another critical
aspect of the story, that residents in the Borno state apparently want
the government to give them guns for self-defense against the militant Boko Haram group.
Locally, only KING5 News has touched this subject, and probably by accident. When reporter Rob Piercy interviewed
Nigerian native Obafemi Idowu Wednesday, he noted, “What’s more, says
Idowu, people can’t protect themselves. It’s illegal for anyone outside
of the military to own a gun in Nigeria.”
Obafemi was described as a technology consultant. He was born in
Chicago but grew up in Nigeria, KING reported. Obafemi said the fact
that citizens are unarmed allowed Boko Haram thugs to “walk into your
house, hold you up, take your children.”
A remarkably articulate fellow, Obafemi is not alone in his
observations. Yesterday, Examiner traded e-mail with Dr. Peregrino
Brimah, who had just published an open letter to Gov. Kashim Shettima of the Borno state.
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