Monday, September 15, 2014

You Need ... Some Cold Beer

September 15, 2014.




BUBU
What has so excited you that you have forgotten to comb your hair?
BOBO
Who cares about a comb when these South Africans have decided to aid Boko Haram?
BUBU
You have a habit of sensationalizing issues. How can you say South Africa is helping terrorists?
BOBO
How else would you explain their seizure of the cash meant to purchase arms that the intelligence community planned to deploy against the Boko boys?
BUBU
Now, you are confusing me. What are you really talking about?
BOBO
How would you know when you spend all your time watching Hallmark? Two Nigerians and an Israeli went from Abuja to South Africa to buy weapons on our behalf. When their plane landed at Lanseria, near Johannesburg, South African customs officers impounded the cash with which they were to pay for the arms.
BUBU
Cash? They went to pay for the arms with cash?
BOBO
How else do you pay for arms? With blood?
BUBU
How much were they carrying?
BOBO
I heard it is about 1.5 billion naira.
BUBU
Are legitimate arms transactions between countries usually paid for in cash?
BOBO
I don’t think so. But payment is payment, its mode notwithstanding. How does that change the fact that the South Africans are sabotaging our anti-terror efforts by confiscating our counter-terrorism money?
BUBU
Is it not curious that they were carrying 1.5 billion naira in cash from Abuja to South Africa to pay for arms that they were buying on behalf of Nigeria? Shouldn't they have paid for the arms through the CBN?
BOBO
Are you not aware that that Australian negotiator listed a former senior member of the CBN as a sponsor of the terrorists? Doesn't that tell you that the CBN may have been compromised?
BUBU
Doesn’t that reasoning sound a little bizarre, even for you?
BOBO
Think what you will. There is even more.
BUBU
What more could there possibly be?
BOBO
The National Conventional Arms Control Committee has denied issuing any approval for the purchase of the weapons.
BUBU
I have never heard of that Committee. Who are they?
BOBO
They approve the import and export of any weapons and issue permits for all such transactions between this country and any other.
BUBU
And they say they did not approve this weapons’ purchase on our behalf?
BOBO
Precisely. They even said they were not aware of any such arrangement.
BUBU
Doesn't that tell you that there is something that doesn't add up in that story about trying to buy weapons for Nigeria?
BOBO
All it tells me is that Boko Haram has gotten to that Committee, just as they have gotten to the South Africans and the CBN. Now, they are trying to frame the patriotic Nigerians who went to help us get more weapons.
BUBU
You need a comb for your hair, my friend, and some cold beer.
BOBO
In the war against terror, there are no spectators. You are either with us or with the terrorists.
BUBU
What if you eventually discover that those people were actually not trying to buy any weapons for Nigeria?
BOBO
That is the reasoning of terrorist sympathizers. I will have none of it.
BUBU
It is not beer you need, my dear friend. It is a sedative.






Adapted from Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/15/two-nigerians-and-israeli-smuggle-93million-south-africa-private-jet-buy-arms-allegedly

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