The Bornu Elders, gave a graphic details of how life in Borno and the
entire north east has been reduced to hell by the activities
insurgents.
Addressing a gathering of Northern Elders Forum in Kano, Zanna Hassan
Boguma who delivered a goodwill message on behalf of Borno Elders
Forum declared that the entire region is now engaged in full time war
from enemy within.
Boguma stated that “we have been seeing hell, our people are
constantly decimated, our towns and villages razed, properties
destroyed, schools and places of worship burnt, even innocent
travelers were not spared” .
The elder stateman said that from the inceasant attack that the axis
had witnessed in the last weeks was a confirmation of how vulnerable
the entire region is.
He disclosed that the region has been turn in to a war zone with
attendant humanitarian crisis, stressing that this is the time the
whole country should mobilized to stop the carnage.
Boguma who doubted the intention of the perpetrators of this crime
against humanity in the region was quick to add that “much as we know,
the whole matter has nothing to do with claimed intention of a section
imposing their will on the others, or issues of sharia or making the
country ungovernable for the President or a religious war as they want
to look at it”.
He however accused the Federal Government of lacking the political
will to address the crisis, pointing out that Borno Elders is
surprised at the grave yard silence of Government and its inability to
implement several report on the insurgency turned in by expert engaged
to do so by the same Government.
The Borno Elders noted that the solution to the crisis does not lie
with the PDP or APC, maintaining that the situation at hand transcend
politics and urged the entire Country to identify with them at the
moment of need.
This catastrophe which has befallen us should be the concern of all
Northerners irrespective of tribe, region, or creed. Those of you who
are residing far away shold know that other citizens needed your
sympathy and attention”.
Boguma posited that “until those who were namd as supporters,
financiers, and alliesto the Boko Haram were brought to justice,
untilthe political Boko Haram were apprehended and prosecuted, until
the operations to contain this madness is sincerely handled, lives of
our innocent villagers will continued to be sacrificed”.
