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