Former
military Head of State and 2011 Presidential candidate of the Congress
for Progressive Change (CPC), General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) yesterday
said that he rejected the declaration of state of emergency in Borno,
Yobe and Adamawa states for the simple reason that President Goodluck
Jonathan had failed from the onset in addressing the security situation
in the country.
He also added that the one of the problems bedevilling the country is bad leadership.
Buhari who featured on the “Guest of the Week” of Kaduna based Liberty Radio current said that the war against the Boko Haram sect was a gross injustice against the north.
“Unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished,” Gen Buhari said.
The CPC leader maintained that the security challenges facing the country started in the Niger Delta region where politicians who were desperate to retain their positions as governors recruited and armed the youths to enable them win the elections by force.
“What is responsible for the security situation in the country is caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants.
“Every Nigerian that is familiar with happenings knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns, the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.
“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about 500 dollars in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month, that is if he is lucky to get employment.
“So kidnapping became very rampant in the South -South and the South -East. They kidnapped people and were collecting money,” Gen Buhari said.
Tracing the origin of Boko Haram, he asked rhetorically, “How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militancy and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.”
The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
He also added that the one of the problems bedevilling the country is bad leadership.
Buhari who featured on the “Guest of the Week” of Kaduna based Liberty Radio current said that the war against the Boko Haram sect was a gross injustice against the north.
“Unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished,” Gen Buhari said.
The CPC leader maintained that the security challenges facing the country started in the Niger Delta region where politicians who were desperate to retain their positions as governors recruited and armed the youths to enable them win the elections by force.
“What is responsible for the security situation in the country is caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants.
“Every Nigerian that is familiar with happenings knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns, the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.
“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about 500 dollars in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month, that is if he is lucky to get employment.
“So kidnapping became very rampant in the South -South and the South -East. They kidnapped people and were collecting money,” Gen Buhari said.
Tracing the origin of Boko Haram, he asked rhetorically, “How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militancy and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.”
The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
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