Boko Haram Must End By December – Council Of State
The National Council of State on Thursday, July 31, has resolved to give President Jonathan their full support in order to put an end to Boko Haram by December.
Governor of Niger State Dr Babangida Aliyu
Governor of Niger State, Dr Babangida Aliyu, while addressing state House correspondents after the meeting of the council in Abuja Thursday evening, said the Boko Haram sect does not represent Islam or any religion for that matter and must be defeated.
Aliyu said it was the resolution of council members that all hands must be on the deck to end insurgency in parts of the country.
He said they would work hard to ensure that the predictions by some foreigners that Nigeria would cease to exist as a united nation beyond 2015 remained a wishful thinking.
The council presided over by Jonathan has the Vice President, the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, all living former Heads of State, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria and all state governors as members.
All living former Heads of State, except former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) attended the emergency meeting. President of the Senate, David Mark, was also absent.
Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Sullivan Chime (Enugu); and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Governor Aliyu also resolved that leaders must be wary of making inflammatory statements that are capable of heightening tension in the country.
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Speaking on the council’s position on the discriminatory practices being carried out in the states, the governor said a committee has been set up to explore ways of amending the constitution to do away with indigeneship dichotomy in the country.
He said: “It came to the fore (at the meeting) that if there is any threat to either the state or democracy, probably the threat is coming from politicians and from leaders of the country. We must understand the boundaries of leadership and also the responsibilities that are involved. Leadership is not about beauty contest. In leadership, you must take difficult decisions and really go about implementing them.
“All these things came to the fore at the meeting and subsequently, each of us made it a deliberate resolution, bi-partisan or non-partisan, to support the President to make sure that we get rid of this insurgency before December”.
According Dr Babangida Aliyu, the members of the vicious Boko Haram sect are not representatives of Islam, but people whose understanding of religion is warped.
The dreaded Boko Haram sect have continued to carry out their incessant attacks mostly in Northern states in Nigeria, killing scores of innocent lives, injuring thousands, while displacing dozens of thousands from their homes.
Just recently on July 30,at about 2.45pm, a member of the sect, female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kano State College of Islamic Legal Studies, while students were checking their results on the notice board, killing six people in the suicide mission.
On Wednesday the sect set ablaze at least 5 churches in Hawul LGA, Borno State.
On July 29, Boko Haram insurgents bombed a mosque in Yobe State located not far from the palace of the Emir of Potiskum.
Meanwhile, yesterday, Jeffery Hawkins, the United States Consul General to Nigeria once again reiterated his country’s commitment towards putting a permanent end to the worrisome activities of the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
Source: Legit.ng
