• Govt to probe ex-gov
The Presidency is worried over the silence of Northern leaders and elders on Boko Haram crisis. The government is not comfortable that they are not condemning the Islamist sect enough on the spate of attacks and the loss of lives and properties, a senior government official said yesterday.
A top government source disclosing the feelings of the Federal Government said it was worried and concerned that since the sect increased its spate of attacks over a year ago, there has not been a strong condemnation of Boko Haram from the region, hence, raising concerns on the continual co-existence of the country.
The source said, this was the highlight of a security meeting held in Abuja . The meeting resolved to investigate a certain former governor who set up the militant group as political hoodlums enterprise. The security chiefs said he nurtured the sect through adequate funding until it metamorphosed into a terror group
The source said this conclusion was drawn at the end of a recent security meeting of the top operatives of the nation’s security agencies in Abuja, where it was said to have been resolved that a one-time governor of Borno State should be investigated for setting up a militant group as a political thuggery enterprise, and nurtured it through adequate funding until it metamophosed into a terror group.
The source further stated that government feels the sect is being used by powerful politicians in the North to undermine and possibly topple the Jonathan administration.
According to the source, “the alleged disatisfactory silence from the North over Boko Haram has given rise to widespread suspicion and serious concern within the ranks of the government, as there is a strong feeling that there may be more to the avoidable verbal inaction from the region than meets the eye”.
Also resolved in the meeting (the report is expected to be submitted to Jonathan soon for consideration and possible action) was the investigation of prominent politicians who have held high political offices in the past but suspected to be funding the deadly group maybe out of sympathy.
The meeting, it was also gathered, has advised Jonathan to engage key Northern politicians as findings have shown that “Boko Haram is a political weapon in the hands of embittered political investors”.
According to the source, “the meeting looked back at 1999 when a southerner, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, defeated a northerner to emerge as President, and the passage of Sharia law by some governors from the Northern states, which led to the gruesome murder of several hundreds of Nigerians, particularly southerners.
“Sharia penal code which was politically deployed by prominent, but selfish Northerners to recruit young Islamic fundamentalists which succeeded in destabilizing the early and better part of Obasanjo’s first term in office, until it became clear that proponents of the Islamic law lacked the morale right to proclaim it as they were identified to be worst violators and offenders”.
According to the source, the meeting endorsed one of the reports that Boko Haram became handy to some northern politicians as a replacement for the failed political Sharia to tackle the Jonathan’s government and ultimately bring it to public and international ridicule”.
On the planned investigation of the ex-governor of Borno State, the source hinted that there were concrete evidence that some well-to-do individuals when he was in office provided financial lifeline for unidentified individuals and groups believed to be sympathisers of Boko Haram in the recent past.
“Government is concerned about this emerging fact which has led to the suspicion and allegations that the affected well-to-do individuals were acting on a script handed over to them by the ex-governor to assist the Boko Haram financiers. So, we want to find out the bond between the accused (ex-governor) and the donors even when he has vacated office many years ago”, the source said.
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