₦airaland Forum

The Shehu of Bama in Bornu State, Shehu Kyari Ibn Umar El-Kanemi, has said that the inability of the Federal Government to curtail the initial activities of Boko Haram allowed them to fester.

He said this inertia gave the sect enough space to operate, stressing that the growth of the insurgents was a failure of the state.

Speaking at the unveiling of the Ejike Chukwu Educational Foundation in Etekwuru, Egbema in Ohaji Egbema LGA of Imo State, the Shehu who was represented by the former Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Baba-kura Kaigama, said, “At the time the Federal Government and the government of the day didn’t take it serious. They didn’t come in to arrest the situation at the beginning of the uprising. That’s why I said it was the failure of the state.

While acknowledging that President Muhammadu Buhari’s takeover diminished the insurgents, the Shehu lamented that much still needed to be done.

“They are still around, rampaging and attacking soft targets. Just yesterday, there was a bomb blast in Maiduguri where a number of people died. So they need to be mopped up,” he said.

Also speaking, frontline politician and businessman Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu said the Iwuanyanwu Foundation was initiating a move to get female pupils in the affected northern states to come down south to complete their education

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/boko-haram-grew-because-fg-slept-shehu-of-bama.html

They r still sleeping o
Isn't this time to curb Fulani killers that we call herdsmen

But u will still vote for d same sleeping buhari govt.

bjayx:
They r still sleeping o
Isn't this time to curb Fulani killers that we call herdsmen

Not yet time. Vote buhari to increase d killings

kings09:
Not yet time. Vote buhari to increase d killings

Naso

no.


BH grew because it had local support & its ideology was in tune with the people of the area.


when it focused on bombing churches at its initial stage, the people in the north who could have quickly addressed the issue & put up counter speeches kept quiet.


it served their purpose at the time & it was only when it was hijacked by other extremists terror groups did the north start to give more information to the FG & point out BH operational bases. by then, the destruction had eaten deep.

Lips Sealed as an NGO staff in Maiduguri