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Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by paddylo1(m): 10:48am On Jun 26, 2012
Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria

25/06/2012 14:15:00 WRITTEN BY EMMA UCHE, IN UYO
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R-L; PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SEN. DAVID MARK, DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SEN. IKE EKWEREMADU WHILE BEHIND IS SEN. UDOMA EGBA DURING THE OPENING OF THE SENATE 2012 RETREAT IN UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE. JUNE 25, 2012

… Says Religious Fundamentalism, Not Poverty Responsible For Boko Haram Crisis

UYO, June 25, (THEWILL) - President of the Senate, David Mark on Monday sounded a strong warning to Northern Leaders to check the rising violent activities of the deadly fundamentalists group Boko Haram, saying its activities could lead to the nation’s disintegration.

Mark, who made the remark at the Senate Retreat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, also declared that the northern leaders’ code of silence on the issue in the face of the Boko Haram’s continuous violence shows that the leaders are as guilty as the perpetrators of the mayhem.

“If the elders in the North cannot speak out and stop this menace let them tell us. Let them come out and say so boldly, because the belief out there is that some elders know about these people and decide to keep quite. If care is not taking, the way things are going, if the Boko Haram menace is not halted, it can lead to break up of Nigeria. Because there is an extent to which the people can take it,” Mark stated.

Mark, who also debunked often-touted insinuations that poverty is the root cause of the crisis said, “It is all about religious fundamentalism and ideology.

“Poverty is not the cause, otherwise if every poor person decides to carry arms then Nigeria will seize to exist. So if people talk about poverty and hunger as the cause of the Boko Haram menace I say no.”

The Senate President further added that bombing of churches almost every Sunday and killing of innocent Christian worshippers has stretched the patience of the people to the limit; such that the leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to persuade their followers not to seek retaliation. “There is limit to human endurance,” he chipped.

Nonetheless, Mark cautioned Christians on the danger of retaliation saying, that doing so means that they (Boko Haram) have succeeded in achieving their target. “Leave vengeance to God”, he appealed.

“I think it is time we educate the suicide bombers in the North that it is a wrong belief that killing innocent people would automatically take you to heaven where they would inherit 17 virgins. Of course it would be an uphill task for one person to handle 17 virgins,” he contended.

He said religious leaders and preachers should desist from indoctrinating their adherents into suicide bombings, adding that government should think seriously on issuing licenses to preachers as a way of checkmating the evil ones among them.

Mark also called on government to seek international collaboration with its neighbours as well as Western countries on ways to tackle and uproot the Boko Haram sect.

While declaring open the retreat the 2011 Senate Retreat taking place at the Ibom Meridien and Golf Resort, the Senate President attributed the emergence and upsurge of terrorist activities in the country to some “disgruntled and over-ambitious politicians.”

Also addressing senators at the retreat tagged “The National Assembly and National Security: Securing the Future for Development”, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan noted with sadness that unguarded remarks and statements by ‘do-or-die’ politicians had led to destruction of several lives and properties in the northern parts of the country.

President Jonathan warned such politicians to stop promoting ethnic and religious politics adding that national security should not be sacrificed on the altar of partisan politics.

He called for joint collaboration between the executive, legislature and judiciary arms of government on the need to review and strengthen existing laws on terrorism to reduce the activities of the Sect.

Meanwhile, host governor, Godswill Akpabio while welcoming the participants described the retreat, as a divinely arranged coming at a time Nigeria is experiencing security challenges.

Akpabio said that a strong union between the executive, legislature and Judiciary was capable of solving the Boko Haram problem.

According to the Governor, “the bombs and the killings would not deter the government of President Goodluck Jonathan from delivering on its mandate of transforming the country.”

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by paddylo1(m): 10:49am On Jun 26, 2012
David Mark on point as usual. .Ndu_chuks, the resident Arewa clown, over to you. . cool

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by inspirenet: 11:02am On Jun 26, 2012
paddy_lo: David Mark on point as usual. .Ndu_chuks, the resident Arewa clown, over to you. . cool
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by paddylo1(m): 11:32am On Jun 26, 2012
“I think it is time we educate the suicide bombers in the North that it is a wrong belief that killing innocent people would automatically take you to heaven where they would inherit 17 virgins. Of course it would be an uphill task for one person to handle 17 virgins,” he contended.

Mark sure got that right, 17 virgins my foot, Ndu-chuks, any rebutal on this issue from you?

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by mpumalanga: 12:00pm On Jun 26, 2012
I prayed for MARK when he was sick because he is not
afraid of the truth.The way of GOD is in the whirlwind
and storm so boko haram may be the divine instrument
to give liberty to the oppressed groups in Nigeria.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Nobody: 12:04pm On Jun 26, 2012
Mark Is smart & straight forward. Not like our balless GEJ. Always shyin away from †ЂΞ truth.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by PointB: 12:05pm On Jun 26, 2012
Mark is saying what every Northern political and religious leader know, but refuse to admit.

Perhaps making clearer to them is appropriate at this juncture:

The Core North will not gain anything (politically) using Boko Haram to arm twist Nigeria; rather they will lose the benefits they derive from Nigeria. GEJ had said he will not negotiate with terrorists. So keeping up with the bombing campaign will certainly lead to war - sooner or later!

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Arosa(m): 12:08pm On Jun 26, 2012
Boko haram is a stu.pid strategy by the north to take power back, it can only backfire. Nigeria should move forward from this nonsense. Nigeria is more important than GEJ and the northern radicals. angry angry angry

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by kokoA(m): 12:11pm On Jun 26, 2012
Always on point. David Mark
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ikeyman00(m): 12:17pm On Jun 26, 2012
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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ikeyman00(m): 12:17pm On Jun 26, 2012
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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ikeyman00(m): 12:19pm On Jun 26, 2012
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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ikeyman00(m): 12:21pm On Jun 26, 2012
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those moslem that gona protect churches annd that

over to u!

abeg these ba stard lives among the community; point them out if u care
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Akanbiedu(m): 12:57pm On Jun 26, 2012
Mark is a FOOL, an ambitious one.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by T9ksy(m): 1:13pm On Jun 26, 2012
paddy_lo: “I think it is time we educate the suicide bombers in the North that it is a wrong belief that killing innocent people would automatically take you to heaven where they would inherit 17 virgins. Of course it would be an uphill task for one person to handle 17 virgins,” he contended.


Abegi Mark, tell dem make dem hia!

Most of these suicide bombers cannot even handle one yeye single mother [/b]let alone [b]17 never-yet-been-plucked, virgins. grin

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by edoyad(m): 1:16pm On Jun 26, 2012
Akanbi_edu: Mark is a FOOL, an ambitious one.

Say what you want, that man is 100% correct.

The truth is that we are tired of you people, if the highest placed Middlebelter in Government is thinking along these lines, imagine what the average south southerner or Eastener is thinking. Your leaders are towing a very dangerous line that would leave you people impoverished for centuries beyond.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by fesse(f): 1:21pm On Jun 26, 2012
“I think it is time we educate the suicide bombers in the North that it is a wrong belief that killing innocent people would automatically take you to heaven where they would inherit 17 virgins. Of course it would be an uphill task for one person to handle 17 virgins,” he contended.

He said 77 virgins not 17 and it is an uphill for a person to do that.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Nobody: 1:22pm On Jun 26, 2012
Can this people do anything other than talk...ACTION is what we need in Nigeria not ADDRESS by our leaders and F.G officials.Put an end to this killings for God's sake

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ogbonoeba: 1:31pm On Jun 26, 2012
paddy_lo: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria

25/06/2012 14:15:00 WRITTEN BY EMMA UCHE, IN UYO
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R-L; PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SEN. DAVID MARK, DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SEN. IKE EKWEREMADU WHILE BEHIND IS SEN. UDOMA EGBA DURING THE OPENING OF THE SENATE 2012 RETREAT IN UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE. JUNE 25, 2012

… Says Religious Fundamentalism, Not Poverty Responsible For Boko Haram Crisis

UYO, June 25, (THEWILL) - President of the Senate, David Mark on Monday sounded a strong warning to Northern Leaders to check the rising violent activities of the deadly fundamentalists group Boko Haram, saying its activities could lead to the nation’s disintegration.

Mark, who made the remark at the Senate Retreat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, also declared that the northern leaders’ code of silence on the issue in the face of the Boko Haram’s continuous violence shows that the leaders are as guilty as the perpetrators of the mayhem.

“If the elders in the North cannot speak out and stop this menace let them tell us. Let them come out and say so boldly, because the belief out there is that some elders know about these people and decide to keep quite. If care is not taking, the way things are going, if the Boko Haram menace is not halted, it can lead to break up of Nigeria. Because there is an extent to which the people can take it,” Mark stated.

Mark, who also debunked often-touted insinuations that poverty is the root cause of the crisis said, “It is all about religious fundamentalism and ideology.

“Poverty is not the cause, otherwise if every poor person decides to carry arms then Nigeria will seize to exist. So if people talk about poverty and hunger as the cause of the Boko Haram menace I say no.”

The Senate President further added that bombing of churches almost every Sunday and killing of innocent Christian worshippers has stretched the patience of the people to the limit; such that the leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to persuade their followers not to seek retaliation. “There is limit to human endurance,” he chipped.

Nonetheless, Mark cautioned Christians on the danger of retaliation saying, that doing so means that they (Boko Haram) have succeeded in achieving their target. “Leave vengeance to God”, he appealed.

“I think it is time we educate the suicide bombers in the North that it is a wrong belief that killing innocent people would automatically take you to heaven where they would inherit 17 virgins. Of course it would be an uphill task for one person to handle 17 virgins,” he contended.

He said religious leaders and preachers should desist from indoctrinating their adherents into suicide bombings, adding that government should think seriously on issuing licenses to preachers as a way of checkmating the evil ones among them.

Mark also called on government to seek international collaboration with its neighbours as well as Western countries on ways to tackle and uproot the Boko Haram sect.

While declaring open the retreat the 2011 Senate Retreat taking place at the Ibom Meridien and Golf Resort, the Senate President attributed the emergence and upsurge of terrorist activities in the country to some “disgruntled and over-ambitious politicians.”

Also addressing senators at the retreat tagged “The National Assembly and National Security: Securing the Future for Development”, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan noted with sadness that unguarded remarks and statements by ‘do-or-die’ politicians had led to destruction of several lives and properties in the northern parts of the country.

President Jonathan warned such politicians to stop promoting ethnic and religious politics adding that national security should not be sacrificed on the altar of partisan politics.

He called for joint collaboration between the executive, legislature and judiciary arms of government on the need to review and strengthen existing laws on terrorism to reduce the activities of the Sect.

Meanwhile, host governor, Godswill Akpabio while welcoming the participants described the retreat, as a divinely arranged coming at a time Nigeria is experiencing security challenges.

Akpabio said that a strong union between the executive, legislature and Judiciary was capable of solving the Boko Haram problem.

According to the Governor, “the bombs and the killings would not deter the government of President Goodluck Jonathan from delivering on its mandate of transforming the country.”

All this long talk, is bullshit. What we need are drones from the USAF . "Ceterum autem censeo boko haram esse delendam"
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Jabioro: 1:32pm On Jun 26, 2012
Senator Mark has just gladden my heart wt dis truth,nting but d real fact.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Captainajama: 1:34pm On Jun 26, 2012
People will soon quote you out of contest mark. Watch out! Anyway,some of us saw this a long time ago and when we spoke, the haters tried tying everything to GEJ. I once said that there are husbands,wives,elders,brothers,friends,relatives etc to these BOKO H insurgents. They did not fall from the sky. If they want the menace to stop they will help the law enforcement agents.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Ejine(m): 1:36pm On Jun 26, 2012
paddy_lo: David Mark on point as usual. .Ndu_chuks, the resident Arewa clown, over to you. . cool

I swear, what a retarrd, that Ndu Chucks.
Looking at things from his completely morronic point of view, I wonder why Ebonyi and Ekiti people haven't all blown themselves to pieces yet.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Mandelaguy(m): 1:36pm On Jun 26, 2012
How will they give up their blood thirsty suicidal brothers when they are out to criticise and see GEJ's govt fail, even when it is affecting all of us.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by curtain: 1:39pm On Jun 26, 2012
Be on ur mark, get set, ready go mark go 2o15..... Level headed mark, always on point.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by ebamma(m): 1:41pm On Jun 26, 2012
so the 4 wives them dey marry for earth no dey belleful them,them still wan commit suicide,so that them go bleep another 17 virgins,nna dis guys like toto pass me oh.
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by lacasa: 1:43pm On Jun 26, 2012
Well, david mark has given his opinion on the matter anϑ i wld say he has chosen τ̅o take the easy way, instead of the real hard truth abt boko-haram.

if he thinks bokoharam is purely a religious issue then, i think our senate president is not being true τ̅o himself anϑ Nigerians as a whole.

what fuels violence the fastest in any society is first of all "Poverty anϑ Unemployment". Without this, i doubt even if there were radical preachers anϑ financial sponsors for committing suicide bombings, it wldnt be †ђªt easy to find the people τ̅o carry these bombs anϑ commit suicide bombimgs.

if tђere wasn't an alarming rate of poverty anϑ unemployment in Nigeria; the north in this case, i dnt think religious fanatists wld be our problem.

Let's not forget, "an idle mind they say is the devil's workshop".

The Senate president is from Benue state which falls under the Northern region (former middle-belt) anϑ part anϑ parcel of the Northern Political Elites.

What i can deduce from his statement is †ђªt if he goes with the reality †ђªt the level of poverty anϑ worrying levels of unemployment in the region is as a failure of good leadership from the same people such as himself who ave been at the top echelon of power, during the IBB regime where he was a governor to a minister of communication anϑ now presently the Senate President.

He has used this stance τ̅o shy away from the fact that if he goes with the fUll "reality" of the situation, it wld be a confession of incompetence anϑ bad leadership on his part as a top northern leader anϑ elite for well over 20 years.

Though, i agree †ђªt the religious leaders need τ̅o be checkmatd on the kind of teachings anϑ radical views †ђªt can give rise τ̅o fanatism in both Islam anϑ Christianity, but the most important anϑ urgent problem is the problem of "Poverty anϑ Education".

i just don't see Ђδω an educated man †ђªt has something doing striving τ̅o develop himself anϑ upgrade hos social standing anϑ †ђªt of his family as we all aspire τ̅o, will fall victim τ̅o radical teachings and go with a bomb τ̅o waste his life anϑ others after enduring the hassles of educating anϑ empowering himself for years, be him a muslim or a xtian.

I for one can't fathom Ђδω.

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Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by musiwa1: 1:43pm On Jun 26, 2012
na wao
Re: Mark To Northern Leaders: Boko Haram May Break Nigeria by Beaf1: 1:45pm On Jun 26, 2012
'Mark to Northern Leaders'
Mark is a Useless f00l. So he is a 'southern leader' talking to 'northern leaders'. It is utterances like this that make me loose interest in the one nigeria $hit! Besides, is Mark not from the Middlebelt?

Mr. Mark is that not what you, GEJ, and all the 'southern leaders' ever wanted? The same reason you all have been reluctant to go after the sponsors and busy sending JTF to kill the foot-soldiers while the sponsors keep on recruiting more bombers/foot-soldiers for you to kill?

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