Between Pantami And Abaribe, Who Is Linked To Terrorists?

By Cham Faliya Sharon

I simply want to point out the incongruity of linking a man like Dr. Isa Ali Pantami with terrorism while letting people like Senator Abaribe sleep quietly!

It was Dr. Isa Ali Pantami who initiated all the policies currently being implemented about forcefully having all SIM cards registered biometrically, with all them linked to subscribers’ National Identity Number (NIN) so that each phone number used by terrorists and criminals to demand ransoms can be traced to their actual owners. And we all know that this security measure did not go down well with the criminal class that wants news of violence and insecurity to dominate public discourse.

Not only that, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami has always been vocal against all forms of terrorism. And for that reason, in addition to his NIN policy for registering all phone numbers, Abubakar Shekau the leader of “Boko Haram” threatened to kill him last year. It’s also easy to figure out that, if bandits and all other kidnappers have their way, they’ll also want to kill him for this policy.

On the other hand, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe is known to be the surety of the head of IPOB terrorists’ organization, and has also been known to not have ever distanced himself from their repugnant and violent ideologies. Yet, it is Dr. Isa Ali Pantami that hates merchants and delusionists are determined to hang with the terrorism label while the real terrorists are their mentors, heroes and all!

Evidently, if they are scouting for people they can slam the label of terrorism on, using the excuse of “rhetorics”, then they need not even go far from their Abaribes, Nnamdi Kanus, Sunday Igbohos, Asari Dokubos, Tompolos, Prof. Akintoyes, etc. But in the meantime, they’re merely chasing shadows with the ignobility of their bigotry.