The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Tuesday said the Federal Government needs a superior ideology as well as military action in order to put an end to Boko Haram atrocities in the country.
This was made kenned by CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, at the Christian/Muslim interactive meeting on tranquility, unity and equity held in Abuja.
He posited that Boko Haram was not an Islamic agenda aimed at eliminating Christians from the North or neither is it a move by the Federal Government to penalize Northerners.
The clergyman, however, advocated the utilization of a superior ideology to contravene the ideology of the insurgents, noting that penuriousness does not propel insurgency as shown by Boko Haram.
"Boko Haram is an ideology; the military is very vital and must play its part. But it will not solve it consummately just by bullets. You will have to engender an avenue for a superior argument in the area of ideologies. You must bring up another ideology that is higher and more preponderant that will contradict the ideology that has engendered this monster. It is a fact that Boko Haram is not as a result of impecuniosity but as a result of an ideology" Oritsejafor verbalized.
The CAN president advised Muslim clerics to culminate the bloodshed in the country by engaging persons with bellicose, contradictory ideologies.
In his remark, Prof. Mohammed Al-Amin, Chairman of the Islamic Research Institute assured Muslims that the Federal Government was not utilizing the Boko Haram insurgency to penalize them.
"I impeccably accede that Boko Haram is an ideological quandary and the best way to tackle it is through perspicacious engagement. If you convert someone ideologically you have done what weapons and other persuasive efforts could not do. The opinion of this conference is that Boko Haram is not an agenda of Muslims to assail and obliterate Christians in this country. It is withal not an agenda of the Federal Government to unleash mayhem on the Northerners" Al-Amin verbally expressed.
Al-Amin called on community and religious bellwethers in the North to take the true message enshrined in the holy book to the youth in the area, pointing out that perspicacious engagement of puerile persons was the best way to contain the insurgency ravaging the area.
Meanwhile, other participants at the meeting pointed out that contentious religious issues such as espousement, inculcation and other aspects of human endeavour should be the focus of subsequent sessions of the inter-faith meeting. They withal stressed that mutual deference for the sundry religious groups was an essentiality for halcyon co-subsistence in the country.
