President Muhammadu Buhari says high-profile individuals,
including a member of the national assembly are those financing secessionist
leaders like Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho.
Buhari said this on Friday during a nationwide address to
mark Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary.
In his address, the president said his administration is
pursuing financiers of these secessionist leaders, adding that “decisive
actions” will be taken against secessionist agitators and their sponsors, who
threaten the country’s national security.
Buhari said “unfiltered and unsubstantiated lies and hate speeches” being peddled by “evil persons” must be stopped, while asking media houses and commentators to move away from “reporting irresponsible remarks”.
“I will therefore
take this opportunity, on this special day that symbolises the unity and
oneness of our great nation, to ask all Nigerians to embrace peace and
dialogue, whatever your grievances,” he said.
“The seeds of violence are planted in people’s heads through
words. Reckless utterances of a few have led to losses of many innocent lives
and destruction of properties.
“Such unfiltered and unsubstantiated lies and hate speeches
by a few evil persons must be stopped. Our media houses and commentators must
move away from just reporting irresponsible remarks to investigating the truth
behind all statements and presenting the facts to readers.
“We must all come out
and speak against the lies being peddled. At this point, I would want to
sincerely appreciate the large number of our traditional, religious and
community leaders as well as other well-meaning Nigerians who, in their various
fora, are openly spreading the message of peaceful co-existence and conflict
settlement through dialogue in their respective communities.
“Nigeria is for all of us. Its unity is not negotiable. And
its ultimate success can only be achieved if we all come together with a common
goal of having peace and prosperity for our nation.
“We shall continue to work on dialogue based solutions to
address legitimate grievances. But we remain ready to take decisive actions
against secessionist agitators and their sponsors who threaten our national
security.
“The recent arrests of Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Adeyemo, and
the ongoing investigations being conducted have revealed certain high-profile
financiers behind these individuals.
“We are vigorously
pursuing these financiers including one identified as a serving member of the
national assembly.”
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There are bandits who are supposed to be called terrorists who ambushed and killed soldiers recently, I advise the government to priotise the capture of the financiers and sponsors of this group and those who implement their will .
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