That Boko Haram Video of Kidnapped Girls

The video below is said to be of some of the girls Boko Haram recently kidnapped in Nigeria. The video is said to have been shot in an undisclosed location. This is a strange claim, given that any government that claims to be a government of the people should know every part of the country it governs. It is strange that a large group of over one hundred girls could be hidden in a location inside Nigeria (Cameroon has denied claims that the girls have been taken to Cameroon) with the Nigerian government having no clue as to where this large group could be. This shows that the government of Nigeria is not a government of the country, as it might claim to be. It is rather a government of those parts inside Nigeria which it controls. This is the bane of many African countries that are made up of many places over which the government has no control. A government which has no control over certain parts of its territory should not be called a government of that territory. Goodluck Jonathan is therefore not the president of Nigeria but the president  of that part of Nigeria which his government controls. The part Boko Haram controls is not under the authority of his government. If he wants to be the president of the whole country, he should work to know where these girls are and bring them home.