In the spirit of Unity we can to fight terrorism.

By Tom Garba, Yola

The world should unite and fight these terrorists that have made life meaningless. Just imagine the lives they are wasting all over the globe in the most gruesome manner.

These mindless, heartless vampires are making living a nightmare. Do we watch and see them take over the world? These are my tips for curbing this global problem.

All hands must be joined globally for massive destruction of the areas under the control of these terrorists. Forget about human rights, after all Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in1945 and these cities bounced back.

Arms embargo must be placed on countries neigbouring the territory held by the terrorists so that such arms don't fall in their hands.

Tyrannical regimes like that of Syria must be toppled. Efforts must be made to have a purposeful and organized leadership in Libya that is becoming havens for terrorists.

It's our duty to globally support logistically, financially, militarily countries neigbouring these terrorists enclaves that abhor their activities in order to decapitate these people and help liberate the territory held by them. Jordan and Turkey are countries suffering from the influx of refugees from the war zones.

The world must unite to contribute ground troops, funds, military hardware and other necessary assistance to wipe out these forces of darkness. Obama must jettison his campaign promise not to use America troops to fight wars outside their territory. This is a global problem that if not nipped in the bud might even extend to America and Europe. Already sporadic terrorists attack have been recorded in Europe and America.

It is imperative for western countries to identify their businessmen that do business with these terrorists in terms of buying their illegal oil and supplying them with arms through black market and deal decisively with them. Without the activities of these unorthodox businessmen in Western countries, these terrorists would have since been grounded

There must be organized programmes to address the massive poverty affecting the populace in these countries by compelling the leaders of these countries to serve the people by way of providing them with basic amenities that will improve the quality of their lives. Poverty is a major contributor of young people getting enrolled in terror activities. This could be done by freezing the accounts of these leaders that are laundered in western countries. Furthermore, rich countries in the west and Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain etc must assist by tripling their aids to poor countries prone to the activities of these terrorists. These countries especially Saudi Arabia can turn around the fortunes of countries like Yemen where these terrorists are trained.

The Muslim umma must organize global conferences to regulate Islamic practice all over the world with a view to ridding the religion with those bent on distorting Islamic practice. Must of the adherents of the faith, especially the illiterates ones are not conversant with the correct version of Islam. They are most of the time being indoctrinated with distorted form of Islam. I'm impressed with what one Ibrahim Yahya wrote on social media few days ago where he explained what prophet Mohammed said on Muslims Christians relationship. That the prophet was categorical that any Muslim that persecuted Christian is inviting eternal condemnation to himself. He quoted copiously from the relevant Islamic literature to convey his message.

With a code of conduct approved by Islamic umma, the activities of Islamic preachers have to be regulated locally. The Islamic world body will empower governments in all countries to proscribe Islamic movements that violent the code of conduct.

The practice of Almajiri system in the northern country where under age are sent outside their homes in the name of learning Islamic scholarship but ending up as street beggars must be proscribed by Muslim Umma in Nigeria. I'm impressed by the outgone governor of Jigawa state Sule lamido who not only proscribed the Almajiri system in his state, but put in place a poverty alleviation programe were the unfortunate wards are paid stipends. Let us borrow a leaf from this man. These Almajiris are the potential recruits for these pervasive Muslims. Do you blame these kids for enrolling as terrorists. These are Nigerians who grew up without parental love, were forced to engage in the most despicable trade- begging for arms, sleep in the most despicable conditions and ate from the crumbs of the table like dogs. Tell me how can somebody who grew up in such conditions will have milk of kindness in heart. He grew up as the wretched of the earth and any opportunity he has he will vent his anger on the society whether you are responsible for his predicament or not.

There must be established a body that will have two religious group that will be screened by Islamic and Christian clergies with branches in each state of the federation and each of the 776 LGAS in the country. Their responsibility is to reach out to both Christian and Muslim groups in the nooks and crannies of the country, educating the people that both religions have so many things in common, they abhor violence, abhor sinful conduct, do not tolerate injustice, hate corruption and encourage living in peace and harmony. Anybody coming out with any doctrine that is a direct opposite of these cherished values as propounded by the great men of both religion ie Prophet Mohammed and the lord Jesus Christ are enemies of the people and must be reported to approved authorities for appropriate action.

This is a clarion call for the world to do the needful: banish terrorism or terrorism will banish us.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed and a word is enough for the wise.