Abubakar El-Kanemi, the Shehu of Borno has said foreigners
seeking to acquire Quranic education introduced Boko Haram insurgents in the
Northeast region of the country.
Speaking at a town hall meeting organised by Yateem Faqeer
Global Foundation in Abuja on Thursday, the traditional ruler explained that
the region had suffered at the hands of the insurgents in all spheres of life.
He explained that “Borno has witnessed so many things, both
good and bad. Boko Haram is something meaningless, mindless and without any
sense of direction as none of the Holy Books, either Quran or the Bible,
indicates that you show disrespect to others, burn and destroy their property.
And I want people to know that Boko Haram was never initiated or started by
people of the Northeast Zone. It is something they just brought to us from
nowhere.”
He believed that many people did not know that the
insurgents had a polluted ideology which was promoted in the minds of the
youths which resulted in havoc in all parts of the country.
General Alwali Kazir (retd), the former Chief of Army Staff,
refuted insinuations that the bandits and other armed criminal gangs operating
in parts of the country were the offshoots of Boko Haram insurgents in the
North East, insisting that apparent ideological differences separated them.
He, however, recommended both kinetic and non-kinetic
approaches to insecurity to ensure the sustenance of peace in the country.
Dr. Umar Bindir, National Coordinator, National Social
Investment Programme, NSIP, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, said the
formulation of a 15-year regional policy and strategy to rehabilitate and
develop the North East region, post-Boko Haram era for the restoration of all
parts of the country.
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