Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd), has said he does not
know any member of Boko
Haram sect. He said this in an
interview with journalists at his
party’s national secretariat in
Abuja yesterday during the
party’s Board of Trustees
meeting.
“I do not know any
member of the Boko
Haram sect. I do not
believe and I do not know
of any religion that will go
and kill people, burn
schools. There was a stage
where I mentioned that I
agreed with one
intellectual where he said
there are three Boko
Haram, one of
Muhammed Yusuf, whom
we know. A leader of the
military then in Maiduguri
did what we know in the
military about internal
security. They looked for
Yusuf, they handed him
over to the police; healthy
young man and he died
under a very dubious
account in the police
custody.
"The second Boko Haram was a
criminal attacking banks and
market places stealing money.
They issued a statement that
they are Boko Haram, and I said
and I have no regret saying it,
that the biggest Boko Haram is
the Federal Government itself,
because it has all the powers to
stop anarchy in the country.
“Now the social part of the
country has been paralised,
economic activities have
stopped. People are no longer
thinking of employment, they
are thinking of what to eat and
how to go about the following
day.”
Buhari said the BOT reviewed
what transpired in the party
from the time of the elections
through the tribunals to the
Supreme Court.
He said, “Among the things
discussed is the matter of
merger which has occupied the
minds of most Nigerians. The
only realistic way of
consolidating the multi-party
democracy system is for
opposition parties to come
together and fight the ruling
party Peoples Democratic Party.”
Culled from Punch
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