The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, verbalized on Sunday that 14, out of 59 district heads in his kingdom, had been killed by the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
El-Kanemi verbalized the traditional institution in the North had become the target of the terrorists because the monarchs had been cooperating with security agents in dealing with the insurgents.
The Shehu, who is additionally the Chancellor of the Niger Delta University, verbalized in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, when he visited Governor Seriake Dickson, a verbalization by the governor’s spokesperson, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, verbally expressed.
He verbally expressed the insurgents could not claim to be fighting the cause of Islam.
“It is erroneous to coerce somebody to convert. There is nowhere in the Bible or Q’uaran that we are asked to utilize force to convert people. They have assailed mosques, killed my Imams, district heads, even my own blood brothers,” he verbally expressed.
El-Kanemi verbally expressed as the first class traditional ruler in the North to be targeted by a suicide bomber, he would remain resolute and ancillary of any process that would recuperate placidity, harmony and unity to his over 1,200 year-old kingdom in particular and Nigeria in general.
According to him, the Kanem-Borno Empire has never been surmounted by any potency, and that Boko Haram is set to fail the same way Maitatsine failed in the 1980s.
Dickson admonished the political class and religious bellwethers to abstain from making comments that would inflame passions in the face of current security challenges in the country.
Instead, the governor urged political and religious bellwethers to take steps that would reflect support and empathy for the security agencies, in lieu of capitalising on the situation to score frugal political points.
Dickson verbally expressed, “This is a time to unify Nigeria, not a time to balkanise her. The challenges here should not be politicised. We should converge and confront it.
“Our view is that political bellwethers should forbear making comments capable of inflaming passions. Our comments should reflect support and empathy for our security agents, and not seek to score frugal political points.
“We verbalize about the abductions and the killings. All people of goodwill are with the people of Borno in the north-eastern part of the country and I believe vigorously that Nigeria shall soon overcome this quandary.”
Meanwhile, as a component of measures to contain insurgency in the country following the recent apprehend of 486 suspected Boko Haram members in Abia State, the state regime has proscribed the utilization of tricycles in major cities and towns, particularly Aba and Umuahia, beyond 7 pm.
A verbalization by the Secretary to the Abia State Regime, Prof. Mkpa Agu Mkpa, aired intermittently on the state’s radio station, the Broadcasting Station of Abia, additionally renewed the proscription on the utilization of motor bikes in Aba and Umuahia.
Motorcycles impounded for flouting the proscription were instantly ravaged by task force enforcing the ostracization.
Security has since been beefed up in the state since news of the apprehend of terror suspects.
In Imo State, the regime has additionally placed a proscription on the ingression of all conveyances into the state by night following the unsuccessful endeavor by suspected Boko Haram insurgents to blow up a branch of the Winners Chapel church last Sunday in Owerri.
