‘Boko Haram leaders not from Borno’
Category: Boko Haram News
The Shehu of Borno, Dr. Abubakar Ibn Garbai, on Monday declared that
the leaders of the Boko Haram sect are not indigenes of the state.
He made the remark when the Presidential fact finding committee on Chibok paid him a courtesy call at his palace on Monday.
According to a statement issued by the Spokesperson of the Committee,
Kingsley Osadolor, the Shehu of Borno, described the abduction of over
200 secondary schoolgirls in Borno State as unfortunate.
“What is happening now is unfortunate. It’s entirely new to us. None
of the leaders of Boko Haram is from Borno. They cannot claim to be from
here. The problem was brought to us from elsewhere,” he stated.
Stressing that the people of Borno were peace-loving, he said the Borno Empire had been in existence for some 1,200 years.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the committee, Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim
Sabo (rtd), recalled that Maiduguri which was a famous centre in the
Trans-Sahara Trade, regretted that the city and the state had suffered
severe socio-economic dislocation as a result of insurgency in recent
years.
He said: “We are now in the main theatre where the Chibok schoolgirls
were taken away against their will. The whole world is mobilised
against the abduction, and we cannot be happy while our daughters remain
in captivity.”
He said the committee had an open mind to the assignment.
“We are not here with preconceived notions. We are here to find facts
that will lead to a resolution of the current hostage crisis involving
the schoolgirls.”
Source: The Nation
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