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Northern Governors Begin Search For Boko Haram Sponsors by Yasirarafat: 5:59am On Oct 10, 2015 |
Governors of the 19 Northern states on Friday
inaugurated a committee to look at the activities of
sponsors of Boko Haram with a view to prosecuting
them.
The Chairman, Northern Governors’ Forum and
Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima,
while inaugurating the committee at the Hassan
Katsina House in Kaduna, noted that the days of the
deadly sect were numbered considering the current
bombardment of the insurgents by troops.
He added that with the superior fire power of the
troops, the insurgents had been dislodged from their
strongholds in the North-East.
He said the committee, which comprised the attorneys-
general and commissioners of justice of the 19
Northern states, was given the mandate to review the
criminal justice system in the North.
Shettima said the inauguration of the committee
became necessary in view of the problems of
insurgency, cattle rustling, armed robbery and
kidnapping confronting the Northern states.
According to him, the committee has two months to
carry out its assignment.
The governor asked the committee to conduct a
thorough and meticulous review of the penal code
with a view to pointing out its weaknesses and
constraints in the overall administration of criminal
justice system in the North.
Shettima said, “The committee should also look at the
condemnable activities of the sponsors of the
insurgency and come up with legally pragmatic,
appropriate and proportionate punishment.
“The committee should also focus specifically on
parents, who because of some pittance, sacrifice their
children as suicide bombers. Such parents must be
made to face the full wrath of the law.
“The committee also has the mandate to carefully
analyse the various emergent security challenges
confronting the Northern states and determine how
best to incorporate them into the penal code for
proper and effective administration of justice.”
The governor, however, cautioned the committee
against making recommendations that would conflict
with the 1999 constitution of Nigeria.
The governor said, “The establishment of this committee
is the direct outcome of one of the resolutions of the
last meeting of the Northern States Governors’ Forum
held here in Kaduna on September 11, 2015 to the
effect that most of the criminal offences currently
being perpetrated especially in this part of the
country like kidnapping, cattle rustling and inciting
religious preaching, inter-alia have either not been
adequately covered by the penal code or not at all.
“ Therefore it has become a matter of strategic
imperative to review the existing criminal justice
system in its entirety in order to ensure that it is up
to date and consistent with our current situation.
“The Boko Haram insurgency, which has been raging
on for the past six years, is one of the many serious
security challenges we are experiencing.
“It has been generally agreed that one of the root
causes of the insurgency was inciting preaching by
the sect which inevitably stoked the violence and
culminated in the extremely complicated and
unconventional security situation facing this part of
the country and in particular the North-East.”
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Re: Northern Governors Begin Search For Boko Haram Sponsors by osamaBUSH(m): 6:01am On Oct 10, 2015 |
Dem go catch demselve b dat. |
Re: Northern Governors Begin Search For Boko Haram Sponsors by 175(m): 6:02am On Oct 10, 2015 |
Is it not Jonathan again? Crazy people! 1 Like |
Re: Northern Governors Begin Search For Boko Haram Sponsors by philfrey08: 6:44am On Oct 10, 2015 |
Begins?? What were dey doing all along and who are dey deceiving? |
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