Governors of the 19 northern states on Friday, inaugurated a committee to identify the sponsors of Boko Haram within two months, with a view of prosecuting them.

Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, while inaugurating the committee at the late Gen. Hassan Katsina House, Kaduna, also noted that the days of the deadly sect were numbered considering the current bombardment of the insurgents by the Nigerian troops.



Shettima added that with the superior firepower of the Nigerian troops, the insurgents had been dislodged from their strongholds in the north eastern parts of the country.

He said the committee, which would be under the aegis of Committee of Attorneys-General and Commissioners of Justice of the 19 northern states, also had the mandate to review the criminal justice system in the North.

The governor argued that the inauguration of the committee had become necessary in view of the complex problems of insurgency, cattle rustling, armed robbery, inciting preaching and kidnapping currently confronting the northern states.

Shettima added, “​The Committee should also look at the condemnable activities of the so-called 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 carry out careful analysis of 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, urging the members to use their expertise and professional wealth of experience to find lasting solutions to problems that had retarded the growth of the region over the years.

- Vanguard News
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/northern-govs-give-panel-2months-to-fish-out-boko-haram-sponsors/

Must lives be lost before we take actions? Boko Haram activities persists because these Governors refused to speak or take actions. So so many lives has been lost as a result of this. Well, better late than never. We mustn't fold arms and watch our helpless brothers and sisters get slain like rams everyday.
The ideology behind BH need to be wiped out.

Wild goose chase

Northern governors waking up from hibernation. If these measures were taken from the onset, several lives and properties would have been saved from this madness.

As if they don't know who are the sponsors are.
Let them all come out and swear they don't.

For once these northern governors have impressed me. First step in ending this insurgency is identifying and taking out the sponsors from play..

Anxiously waiting for expiration of 2 months from today...

Interesting news if you ask me.

I'm also curious to see what the panel finds out.

Fingers crossed.

The chief sponsor is also the chairman.

It seems they just woke up!

stanech:
Wide goose chase

Very wide I tell you.

omenka:
Very wide I tell you.

As wide as a church door.

People wey don pledge allegiance to ISIS na now we dey look for sponsor for Nigeria

Comedy Republic of Nigeria

Publicity propaganda

funny people up there.

Are the northern governors now DSS officials ? Nice move but very belated and definitely coming from the"wrong" quarters. I say wrong because this is the first thing security operatives from the commissioner of police up supposed to have done from day one.

It's their plate of beans sha

Let me give them a starting point. JONATHAN, BIAFRANS, PDP

After hearing that Yorubas want to pull out.

what if surprise!surprise!! the pedophile,the jihadists himself and child rapist(buhari) turn out in their investigation ? what will the do eeh? baboons and monkeys am asking you? what will the do? this are idiots.awusa/fulani and there intrigued !!!

This is eight years late, however the sponsors should be fished out and punished so this nation can move on to greater heights.

Bunch of ediots..I thought they said it's Ihejirika that is sponsoring BH? Ndi Nzuzu

another round of pretense and deceit

Although this is late in coming, it will go a long way in helping put a stop to the dastardly acts being perpetuated by those monsters. If nothing, it should instill fear in their sponsors, which will make them halt for a while to avoid being found out seeing as security details will be in hot pursuit. This will give the government the edge to record even more success, assuming that they are proactive.

Wash

They are the boko haram sponsor's, we know

Hmmmm... That forum supposed to be named ''northerner governors deceiver forum''

Governor Isa Yuguda and Danjuma Goje apologise to Boko Haram

The Bauchi State governor and the former Gombe State governor react to statements by the radical Islamic sect that it would hunt them down

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and Senator Danjuma Goje from Gombe State have publicly appologised to radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, for any rights violations suffered during the military crackdown on its leaders in 2009.

"I apologise to the members of Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad for perceived injustices caused them as they have the full rights to be protected by the law," Yuguda said in a statement on Saturday."I hope this will further the healing of the trauma on Jama'atu Ahlussunnah, and open the door to meaningful dialogue that will end hostilities and usher peace for which the religion of Islam is all about."

Goje, the former governor of Gombe, said: "as a true Muslim, who believes in peace and brotherhood, I hereby tender my public apology to the organisation for any wrong done to it in the course of performing my duty as the then governor of Gombe State".

Boko Haram, which also goes by the name Jama'atu Ahlussunnah lidda'awati wal Jihad, is based in Borno State, but has also been active in nearby Bauchi and Gombe. It has claimed responsibility for series of attacks on security operatives and politicians in the region.

Yuguda and Goje were apparently responding to Boko Haram's demand for apologies as a precondition for dialogue with government.

In a recent media report, Abu Zaid, the spokesman for Boko Haram, had said the sect would hunt down the governors of Borno, Bauchi and Gombe. "We would not relent in our efforts of searching for them until they come out publicly and apologize," he allegedly said.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State had already offered amnesty any member of the sect who renounces violence. However, Boko Haram has continued to demand for a wider application of Sharia Law in the north.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/yuguda-and-goje-apologise-boko-haram

The chairman is one of the sponsors. Remember he promised the boys amnesty.

All these are just ways to end boko haram without suspicion.

Make we hear word!!!!!!!!!