By Nkereuwem Akpan
Those who floated and started the whole issue of “Repentant Terrorists” are the real enemies of Nigeria. They simply gave the terrorists opportunity to regroup, rearm and return to Sambisa. The goal of every Boko Haram Jihadist is to turn Nigeria and indeed the world into one massive ‘”caliphate” where the existing world order is replaced by Shariah.
This is common knowledge and the information is already out there in the public domain. So when Boko Haram Jihadist find themselves in position of weakness or imminent defeat , their beliefs allows them to pretend that they’re reformed and pretend that they’ve abandoned or forsaken their terrorists ideology.
It is there in their teachings and everyone knows that it is called the Doctrine of deception”
So firstly a Jihadist can never recant even if you tie him to the stake to shoot. Infact if you tie a Jihadist to the stake to shoot, he’s happy to die in martyrdom and go to “paradise”.
No true Jihadist ever repents and the proponents of the policy knew what they were doing .They knew from day one that it was all about reinvigoration and relaunch of the Jihadist agenda of Boko Haram.
So ultimately it is this DOCTRINE OF DECEPTION that leads to the mistrust and deep seated animosities between those who say they have “repented’ and those who know that the whole thing is a grand deception indoctrinated and pronounced in the Boko Haram Jihadist ideology
Ultimately they pretend to have repented and we pretend to believe them when we laugh at their stupidity knowing what we know that they cannot repent .
So let all of us keep pretending.
