We are at War because Boko Haram are not Northerners — Northern Elders

THE Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has declared that it was wrong for anyone to claim that the Boko Haram insurgents currently wagging war against Nigeria are from the Northern Region of the country. NEF said it has done a lot to woo the Federal Government to overcome insurgency in the country, saying the government lacks the will power to act.

According to the forum, the Northerners were victims of insurgency being perpetrated against them, saying that as it was today, the original Jama’atul Ahlu Sunnah Li-Dawati Wal-Jihad, also known as Boko Haram, had been hijacked by the political class and they were the ones annexing the territory of Nigeria.

Addressing journalists in Bauchi State shortly after the forum’s strategic committee’s meeting, a member of the committee, Barrister Solomon Dalung, noted that though there was a conception of an Islamic orientation by those who initially formed the Boko Haram group, what was being witnessed now was far from the agenda of the group.

He stated that any attempt to link Northerners to insurgency was a deliberate move to blackmail the people of the North, submitting that the Federal Government lacked the will to put an end to insurgency in the country.

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