Former Head of Military Ruler and Chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Federal Government to stop the clampdown of Boko Haram insurgents, saying Niger Delta Militants were never killed or properties belonging to them destroyed.
Buhari who spoke on Sunday on a Liberty Radio programme, Guest of the Week monitored said accused the government of killing and destroying houses belonging to Boko Haram members while the Niger Delta militants get special treatment.
The former dictator said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.
While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.
According to Buhari “what is responsible for the security situation in the country is caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants. Every Nigerian that is familiar with what is happening knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all.
“What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections. So they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns; the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that, the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.
“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about 500 dollars in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month, that is if he is lucky to get employment.
“So kidnapping becomes very rampant in the South -South and the South -East. They kidnapped people and were collecting money.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today.
You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty.
“They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished.
They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
While fielding questions in English in the same programme, Buhari said that the promoters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were aware of the challenges ahead of them in an effort to get the party registered, saying “the road to merger is quite rough.
“The ruling party, with its enormous resources and its capacity for coercion has seen it as a threat and they have said it. Personally, I came to realise since 2007 that Nigerians believe that the only way to stabilise the system of multi-party democracy is for the opposition parties that have representatives right from Councillors to the National Assembly come together to deliver their constituencies democratically.
This is the only way you can counter PDP’s enormous physical and material influence in the country”
He expressed optimism that the All Progressive Congress will be registered saying “by nature, I am an optimist. If I were not an optimist, I will not attempt to contest the presidency three times and end up in the Supreme Court three times. I believe we are going to be registered.
“There is a law guiding party registration which states that you must have your headquarters in the nation’s capital that can be identified by INEC and you must have a convention. All the three parties involved have held their conventions and have agreed to forsake our existing parties and go for APC.
“At the national level, we must have those who will run the party. As soon as we meet these criteria and INEC acknowledge that, 30 days after the acknowledgement, we are APC whether INEC write us and give us the registration or not”.


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U r a big goat, where did GMB say dat in d article? Wat he ask 4 is equal clampdown on criminals, abi MEND n Ombatse dat killd policemen r above d law? Beta change dat ur bigotic caption. Idiota

ecosanders: U r a big goat, where did GMB say dat in d article? Wat he ask 4 is equal clampdown on criminals, abi MEND n Ombatse dat killd policemen r above d law? Beta change dat ur bigotic caption. Idiota

possibly this goat is even more intelligent than you that feels like a human see below and learn to read very well before calling names

Former Head of Military Ruler and Chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Federal Government to stop the clampdown of Boko Haram insurgents, saying Niger Delta Militants were never killed or properties belonging to them destroyed.

few questions for Buhari , did Niger deltans and SE kidnappers kidnap any Northerner or Yoruba was the kidnapping limited to Foreigners and Local indigenes,

did Niger deltans and SE Militants kill any Northerner or Yoruba was the killing limited to Soldiers and policemen

Why does Boko Haram kill Christians rather than face the soldiers and policemen fighting them.

Why did Boko haram bomb churches and kill their pastors , where as the Niger deltans and SE militants did not kill any Muslim or bomb mosque or kill any Imam

Buhari is a joke. voting him in 2015 is like orchestrating this country's doom.
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asorocker: few questions for Buhari , did Niger deltans and SE kidnappers kidnap any Northerner or Yoruba was the kidnapping limited to Foreigners and Local indigenes,

did Niger deltans and SE Militants kill any Northerner or Yoruba was the killing limited to Soldiers and policemen

Why does Boko Haram kill Christians rather than face the soldiers and policemen fighting them.

Why did Boko haram bomb churches and kill their pastors , where as the Niger deltans and SE militants did not kill any Muslim or bomb mosque or kill any Imam

can u gv me d identity of al d 13 policemen killd by MEND,n hw did u kw there r no Muslims n Hausa among them? A criminal is a criminal b it MEND, BH etc. If u r sincere 2 urself, y didnt d FG clamp down on d Militant? I hav no symphaty 4 any criminal be it mend or bh.

ecosanders: can u gv me d identity of al d 13 policemen killd by MEND,n hw did u kw there r no Muslims n Hausa among them? A criminal is a criminal b it MEND, BH etc. If u r sincere 2 urself, y didnt d FG clamp down on d Militant? I hav no symphaty 4 any criminal be it mend or bh.

The FG camped down on the Militant but could not continue because of the militants tactics of sabotaging oil pipelines which led to the dwindling of oil revenues, if you care to check it was yaradua that gave the militants Amnesty not Jonathan.


If there were Muslims in the police force and they were among those killed by MEND , how can you equate that to out right killing of Muslims by Mend.

Mend fought policemen and soldiers because the came to stop them they left Muslims and mosques in Niger Delta whom they considered innocent,

Nut for Boko Haram the opposite was the case they attacked Christians in churches and bombed and killed innocent igbos even in in their sabon gari Abode and shops , if that it is not wicked ethnic cleansing them what is ethnic cleansing

if Boko haram was not bombing churches and killing pastors possibly some people could have taken them serious.

ecosanders: can u gv me d identity of al d 13 policemen killd by MEND,n hw did u kw there r no Muslims n Hausa among them? A criminal is a criminal b it MEND, BH etc. If u r sincere 2 urself, y didnt d FG clamp down on d Militant? I hav no symphaty 4 any criminal be it mend or bh.

Mend only asked for fair treatment of niger deltans and when amnesty was given,they came and surrendered.
Ur so called BH, what are they fighting for?
How on earth will they shed blood for religious sake?
They've been given amnesty, where are they? Hope you heard their responds. So what actually do they want? Their own state in Nigeria?
And the ewu gambia is supporting them.
If dis silly mallam is calling on fg to stop, why can't he, as a muslim leader,use his office and call this boys to order,I mean,that will be a credit to him and a leverage to earn my vote come 2015. Surely he failed.