How Borno government is undermining fight against Boko Haram – Religious group

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– A religious group has said that the Borno state government is undermining the fight against Boko Haram

– The group said the state government is sabotaging effort by the military to wipe terrorsist from the region

– The group queried the state government’s defence of its arrested local government area chairman over his involvement with Boko Haram

The religious group said Borno state government was working towards sabotaging military efforts against terrorism

A religious group, Northern Interfaith and Religious Organization for Peace (NIROP) has accused the Borno state government of undermining military fight against terrorism.

The group said the state government’s reaction to the arrest of its local government chairman is questionable.

Shettima Lawan, the chairman of Mafa local government area in Borno state was arrested by the Nigerian military for his alleged involvement with Boko Haram terrorist group.

However, the state government has said that Lawan was not arrested but turned himself in.

The government also said he was innocent of allegations leveled against him by security operatives.

But addressing journalists in Abuja, the national coordinator of the religious group, Musa Fomson said while soldiers are diligently working to round up escaping terrorists Borno state politicians are covertly subverting the military’s efforts thereby making the work to be worthless.

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Fomson also queried the action of the state government.

He said Nigerians must rise up and condemn any attempt that will encourage the terrorist group from regrouping.

He urged the army to remain focused in its mission of mopping up remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists.

He said, “We appeal that Nigerians make vigilance their watchword, be their neighbors’ keepers and support the military to expose those that are political Boko Haram as we see this as being strategic to winning the battle and ensuring that the peace in the wake of the terror group’s defeat is not short lived.”

“The Nigerian Army on its part has only one option, which is to go after the identified political Boko Haram members.

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class="align-left">“In our view, no one deserves to go through the harrowing experiences that Nigerians, particularly the people of the northeast, had gone through in the hands of the terrorists and it is definitely not an experience that should be repeated by allowing the killers to regroup.

“This is what makes it sad that some people under certain organizations or political configuration are practically wishing and working for the terrorists to regroup.

“We urge Nigerians to collectively condemn these individuals and groups regardless of whether they pretend to be politicians, activists, journalists, NGOs, media or any other covers being used to promote the interest of the defeated terrorists,” he said.

He also said the Borno state government has openly advertise these subversive activities as reaction to the arrest and interrogation of the chairman of Mafa local government council who was caught harboring Boko Haram fighters.

“The Borno state government has been confirmed to be sponsoring some Civilian JTF members to come to Abuja to stage protests aimed at exonerating its officials for over half a decade long sponsorship of terrorism.

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“The Civilian JTF members have been coached to counter the Nigerian Army. This plot could only have been contrived to divert attention from the ignoble roles Borno state and local government officials have played in keeping Boko Haram terrorism in place for these years.

“The account of some rescued Chibok Girls that they were kept in the residence of state officials in Maiduguri and later Gwoza before they were moved to the bush after their capture is a testament to the culpability of Borno officials in the years of horror Nigerians have been forced to endure.

“These clandestine of the Borno sate government and its officials since the arrest of politically exposed persons in the state by the Nigerian Army therefore calls for a wider investigation and corresponding actions against those indicted. Nothing in the laws of the land empowers component governments to unleash terror on the scale of Boko Haram on the other federating units,” Fomson added.

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