BRUSSELS IN MASSIVE LOCK DOWN

THERE IS FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN BRUSSELS

T-E-R-R-O-R S-T-R-I-K-E-S!!!

BRUSSELS IN MASSIVE LOCK DOWN

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,

LIVE FROM LAGOS,NIGERIA

The recent terror strikes which shook Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the center piece of European Union’s operations has continued to generate a lot of attentions with lots of flaks directed at extremists  over the incident.

The New Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria while conducting its enquiries on the issue learnt that at least 31 people were now believed to have been killed in the twin terror strikes that took place recently at Zaventam Airport in Brussels and the Maelbeek Metro station ,believed to be the deadliest terror strikes at the heart of Europe in modern history.

The attack is seen as a strong message  being sent by the terror networks of radical Islam as Brussels warehouses the European Union Parliament and the other functions of the E.U.

Belgium has one of the largest Islamic Ummah in Europe as it accounts for 6percent of its population of 11 million people .

It also has the painful distinction of contributing the largest number of fighters to Islamic state in Syria and Iraq [I.S.I.S] as more than 500 Belgians are said to be working for the terror group.

In an exclusive chat with the News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria,a public affairs commentator who refused in very strong terms not to be quoted in print told this reporter that the Schengen agreement which made visa related matters very easy in Europe may be one the earliest casualties of the current security tension in Brussels,Belgium.

He  affirmed that  since a lot of radicals now leave underground via sleeper cells in France and Belgium he was sure that European Union officials will soon look at how to checkmate this by putting up more stringent conditions before anyone will qualify for a visa especially if he was from the Eastern block of Europe,Middle East and Asia.

In a related issue,yet another analyst told this reporter France and Belgium helped fire up the culture of radicalization when it opened up its borders to all comers from its former colonies in the name of cultural assimilation with this coming to haunt them.

His words:”Now the whole world and indeed the whole of Europe is at cross roads as to how to find a balance to the problems caused by extremism ,I was in Germany as a student and I knew that with a Schengen visa most of my colleagues travelled around 26 out of 28 nations of Europe  but it was only with the United Kingdom and Switzerland that you will be forced to do a double check”

He explained that the danger in this type of arrangement was that once a lone wolf got away then a lot of the populace were in grave danger if there was a terror strike..

He added that the only other option apart from visa restrictions of immigrants who have no business in Europe was for islamic clerics to be engaged by the European Union directly so that the spiritualists can engage their adherents and urging them to abandon violence for peace.

T he Schengen Agreement (English pronunciation:  is a treaty which led to the creation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area. It was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg. It proposed the gradual abolition of border checks at the signatories' common borders. Measures proposed included reduced speed vehicle checks which allowed vehicles to cross borders without stopping, allowing residents in border areas freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints and the harmonisation of visa policies.^[1]
In 1990, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the abolition of internal border controls and a common visa policy. The Schengen Area operates very much like a single state for international travel purposes with external border controls for travellers entering and exiting the area, and common visas, but with no internal border controls. It currently consists of 26 European countries covering a population of over 400 million people and an area of 4,312,099 square kilometres (1,664,911 sq mi).^[2]
Originally, the Schengen treaties and the rules adopted under them operated independently from the European Union. However, in 1999 they were incorporated into European Union law by the Amsterdam Treaty, while providing opt-outs for the only two EU member states which had remained outside the Area: Ireland and the United Kingdom. Schengen is now a core part of EU law and all EU member states without an opt-out which have not already joined the Schengen Area are legally obliged to do so when technical requirements have been met