A former military Head of State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), insisted on Thursday that Nigeria had the capacity to subjugate the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect.
Buhari withal noted that the sect’s activities should not be linked to Islam as being done in some quarters, integrating that the sect could not have claimed to be fighting a religious cause when, they killed innocent people and eradicated worship places.
He verbally expressed the earlier the Federal Regime realize that the Boko Haram activities were not religious but terrorism, the more preponderant.
Buhari, who verbalized this while receiving the Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, on a sympathy visit to him, verbalized the sect could be crushed with the same zeal the 30-month old civil war that claimed over one million Nigerians was fought.
Buhari verbalized, “When this question of Boko Haram commenced I’m sure it was on record that the first verbalization I made about 18 months ago was that no religion advocates what is transpiring. So rudimentally it is not the case of religion or ethnicity when they kill children in schools in the North-East; they kill edifiers; they burn churches , they burn mosques, they burn motor parks , they burn markets.
“Where is religion there? Where is ethnicity there? This is terrorism and I hope the regime will come to prehend with it. Nigeria is capable of dealing with this. We dealt with the civil war for 30 months we fought and we kept Nigeria one and God’s willing we are going to keep Nigeria one.”
Buhari, while commiserating with the families of those that died in the blast, verbalized, “When I emerged from the car there was blood on my dress I did not ken how it came about because I did not have a scratch on my body but there were dead bodies all over the place. The security endeavored to move me to the other side and we just got one of the conveyances passing by and they brought me home.”
“I hope the law enforcement agencies and the chief executives of the states will prosper in securing the country. May God avail us.” Meanwhile, Buhari verbally expressed that he did not ken the motive abaft the endeavor to assassinate him in the Wednesday blast that left scores of people dead.
Buhari noted that those who orchestrated to eliminate him neither called him nor indited him a letter to threaten his life afore the foiled endeavor on his life last Wednesday.
The former Nigerian bellwether, who verbalized in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America monitored in Kaduna on Thursday, regretted the death of innocent people who were at the scenes of the twin blasts.
He verbalized, “We were peregrinating then a car suddenly commenced to trail us and was endeavoring to get proximate to my conveyance but the conveyance following mine did not sanction that. When we reached Kawo, near the market, he had to wait for other conveyances emanating from the other end. It was the right side of the market on the left side is the road coming into Kaduna afore the overhead bridge.
“From the right side, they detonated the bomb but Allah preserved us. The three conveyances on my convoy were affected. I emerged unhurt but I visually perceived many people on the ground, some were dead while others were earnestly injured. My aides were injured but they were treated and discharged.
“Nobody had indited me or called to threaten me. The incidence took me by surprise.”
Buhari withal noted that the sect’s activities should not be linked to Islam as being done in some quarters, integrating that the sect could not have claimed to be fighting a religious cause when, they killed innocent people and eradicated worship places.
He verbally expressed the earlier the Federal Regime realize that the Boko Haram activities were not religious but terrorism, the more preponderant.
Buhari, who verbalized this while receiving the Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, on a sympathy visit to him, verbalized the sect could be crushed with the same zeal the 30-month old civil war that claimed over one million Nigerians was fought.
Buhari verbalized, “When this question of Boko Haram commenced I’m sure it was on record that the first verbalization I made about 18 months ago was that no religion advocates what is transpiring. So rudimentally it is not the case of religion or ethnicity when they kill children in schools in the North-East; they kill edifiers; they burn churches , they burn mosques, they burn motor parks , they burn markets.
“Where is religion there? Where is ethnicity there? This is terrorism and I hope the regime will come to prehend with it. Nigeria is capable of dealing with this. We dealt with the civil war for 30 months we fought and we kept Nigeria one and God’s willing we are going to keep Nigeria one.”
Buhari, while commiserating with the families of those that died in the blast, verbalized, “When I emerged from the car there was blood on my dress I did not ken how it came about because I did not have a scratch on my body but there were dead bodies all over the place. The security endeavored to move me to the other side and we just got one of the conveyances passing by and they brought me home.”
“I hope the law enforcement agencies and the chief executives of the states will prosper in securing the country. May God avail us.” Meanwhile, Buhari verbally expressed that he did not ken the motive abaft the endeavor to assassinate him in the Wednesday blast that left scores of people dead.
Buhari noted that those who orchestrated to eliminate him neither called him nor indited him a letter to threaten his life afore the foiled endeavor on his life last Wednesday.
The former Nigerian bellwether, who verbalized in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America monitored in Kaduna on Thursday, regretted the death of innocent people who were at the scenes of the twin blasts.
He verbalized, “We were peregrinating then a car suddenly commenced to trail us and was endeavoring to get proximate to my conveyance but the conveyance following mine did not sanction that. When we reached Kawo, near the market, he had to wait for other conveyances emanating from the other end. It was the right side of the market on the left side is the road coming into Kaduna afore the overhead bridge.
“From the right side, they detonated the bomb but Allah preserved us. The three conveyances on my convoy were affected. I emerged unhurt but I visually perceived many people on the ground, some were dead while others were earnestly injured. My aides were injured but they were treated and discharged.
“Nobody had indited me or called to threaten me. The incidence took me by surprise.”
