APC Ready To Expose Boko Haram Sponsors
As part of its readiness to expose the sponsors
of the radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, the All Progressives Congress
(APC) has called for an international investigation into the activities
of the extremist in order to expose its sponsors.
The call was contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos by
the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It said the international communities should unravel the modus
operandi of Boko Haram as well as any individual or group that may have
links with the extremist, in order to put a permanent end to their
menace.
Lai Mohammed
The party said the inquiry should include intelligence experts from
the United States (U.S.), Britain, France and Canada, as well as
representatives of the UN and Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and
Niger.
APC also called on the representatives of the military and other
security agencies, especially the police and the Department of State
Security (DSS), governments of the states worst-hit by the Boko Haram
insurgency, including Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa, the
Federal Capital Territory and the Christian Association of Nigeria, the
Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA) to be part of the inquiry.
It also called on the civil society organisations, the Nigeria
Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, National Human Rights
Commission, the Nigerian Bar Association and any other relevant
individuals or groups to be involved in the inquiry.
It mentioned the major political parties expected to be part of the
inquiry to include the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the APC, whom
must be represented on the panel of inquiry, with their findings be
made public while those discovered to have links with the sect would be
made to face the full wrath of the law.
Below is an excerpt from the statement:
“We hope the PDP-led federal government, which has led the
incessant but baseless campaign to point accusing fingers at the
opposition, especially our party the APC, will give its total support to
the immediate constitution of this international panel of inquiry. We
have no doubt that the international community will give its unalloyed
support to this inquiry, in view of the trans-national nature of the
insurgency and the threat posed by terrorism to global peace and
security. On our part, we pledge our total support for this inquiry
anytime it is launched, but hopefully very soon. Our party, which is
barely one year old, has been at the receiving end of diversionary,
carefully-choreographed and blatantly irresponsible point-blank
accusations as well as insinuations of sponsoring Boko Haram, not
minding that the group’s activities date as far back as 2002 when there
was no APC. These accusations and insinuations have become so virulent
and have indeed reached a level where one begins to wonder whether those
behind the finger-pointing are actually trying to divert attention from
their own culpability and whether they have even more sinister motives
for their finger-pointing. Whatever their motives are, let the
international inquiry we are seeking be launched urgently and let the
findings be published for all Nigerians to see. Anyone opposed to this
call for an international inquiry will have a lot of explanations to
make to Nigerians as well as to the international community. Enough is
enough. The daily killing, maiming and abduction of innocent Nigerians,
as a clueless Federal Government looks on, must end. The pervasive
insecurity that has crippled Nigeria since this insurgency started must
be halted. Those behind it must be unravelled and prosecuted. Let the
inquiry begin!” the party said.
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