BRING BACK OUR GIRLS: 234 Girls, 17 days, 1 country.

17 days have passed since the kidnap of 234 teenage girls from their hostel in Government Girls College, Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria. The abduction is reported to have been carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The missing state of the girls have triggered civil unrest and protests, social media campaigns with the hash tag: #BringBackOurGirls on Twitter, avatar black out by several Nigerian Twitter users including Mr. Leke Alder (@LekeAlder).

If the whereabout of the girls remains a mystery after 17 days, does it make any reason to justify it by the still missing Malaysian Airline? Millions of dollars have been spent on campaigns for the girl child, but this deathly blow to more than a hundred families is a record crime. In a country where a leader exists, 234 girls should never disappear without a hint of where they currently are. The United Nations is mostly laid back about this horrible and saddening situation.

Sahara Reporters wrote 2 days ago: PDP Chieftain Expresses Doubt Chibok School Girls Were Kidnapped, Asks “Who Saw It Happen?” A CNN article reports that, "A total of 230 parents registered the names of their daughters who were missing on the day of the kidnap," said Asabe Kwambura, principal of the Government Girls Secondary School. "From my records, 43 girls have so far escaped on their own from their kidnappers. We still have 187 girls missing."

Whatever will come out of this, the days ahead will reveal. But let me leave it to your imagination what sort of response the Nigerian government would have had if the daughters of national leaders were involved. I bet that the sheer insensitivity of the President and his cabinet wouldn't be so. One is left to wonder whether they actually care about the girls or are simply interested in dramas of the 2015 Presidential elections.

Life is short; live it to the fullest.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

#BringBackOurGirls

Adeleke David

STIR NIGERIA: After the Presidential Media Chat

Before you ask me if u have become a political writer or blogger, let me inform you that there are three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

I have chosen to not be mentioned among the majority who stood for nothing and never embraced the despair of failure in their quest for the joys of victory. If things aren't going right and you keep mute, you're no better than those in support of injustice.

I just had a cup of Lipton, and true to it, I almost drank a sugarless cup of Lipton. The sugar settled beneath like stones at the sea bed. I unconsciously stirred to "play" with the crystals only to realize that they "disappeared" until I found no more. Then it occurred to me that what is not stirred never tastes sweet.

Nigeria, is to me, like a cup of tea. The sugar must be stirred. If measurable changes are to find root in this country, we must stir!

That means that we must displace everything that can be displaced. We must unsettle whoever must be unsettled. We must stir Nigeria!

A cold war it will be, but it is a war worth fighting to the finish. Nothing seems guaranteed but our determination can see us through the hard moments. We should stop thinking we are in times of peace. These are times of war; cold, silent and ruthless war for the heritage of our children and our welfare. War against the greedy minority. War against the facilitators of insurgency. War against western ideas and opinions that turn one against another. War against the madness that has become a norm in a once admirable nation. Take a cue from the Late President John Atta Mills of Ghana, and now President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. These are African leaders that are stirring their countries, the cold-blooded threats of the west notwithstanding.

If you are a true Nigerian, from your sphere of influence, STIR NIGERIA!

To nation building,

Adeleke David
Mr Effectiveness
@davidadeleke