Maku misleading Nigerians on terrorism –Borno govt

Umar Mustapha said at a conference on Security and Human Rights in Northern Nigeria under the Arewa Development Project that Maku may have likely polluted the minds of millions of Nigerians and the security forces by accusing the Borno State government of trivializing the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. He said negligence in understanding the […]

Umar Mustapha said at a conference on Security and Human Rights in Northern Nigeria under the Arewa Development Project that Maku may have likely polluted the minds of millions of Nigerians and the security forces by accusing the Borno State government of trivializing the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. He said negligence in understanding the Boko Haram crisis makes it “stubbornly difficult” to make prescriptions.
 “Maku is the one to educate not just Nigerians but the entire world on what constitutes Boko Haram. However, the driver happens to be blind. What would make someone really disturbed is that Maku was  supervising minister of defence for some time. No one might ever know the extent he might have inflicted his understanding of Boko Haram on security chiefs he worked with”, he said.
He said people who do not understand the Boko Haram crisis can distort the understanding of others including those who might be in position to directly deal with it, adding that the state had spent billions of naira tackling the menace.
Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero said variance in ethnicity and religion were negatively exploited to cause violence in the state, adding that government had initiated peace building initiatives among communities.