Monarch Reveals Who Brought Terrorism Into Borno State | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Nov 30, 2022
Monarch Reveals Who Brought Terrorism Into Borno State | READ DETAILS
The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, has blamed terrorism in the state on strangers who were given a place of settlement because of the love the people of Borno has for outsiders.
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El-Kanemi stated that the ideologies being propagated by Boko Haram terrorists does not have the backings of the Holy Qu'ran nor the bible and as such terrorism cannot be sponsored by indigenes of Borno state.
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The monarch who hosted the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Jimmy Akpor, in his palace on Tuesday, November 29, said;
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"Boko Haram is something meaningless, mindless, without any sense of direction.
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"None of the holy books either the Holy Qu'ran or Bible indicate that you kill one another, show disrespect to people, burn people's property and cause distress.
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"We don't know that ideology, we don't know how they decided to do this.
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"These people came to Borno simply because Borno is home of peace and hospitality; the Borno people like strangers, they like one another, they were doing their legitimate and local businesses.
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"So these people came to Bono and requested for a place to settle while not knowing that they have an ideology which they came with and polluted the minds of the youths and created havoc in this part of the country.
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"So many people died, many people were killed at that time, it was a very sympathetic situation around 2009; that was maybe three months or so months of my appointment, because I was appointed in March 2009.
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"They killed our imams, they killed pastors, they burnt mosques and churches, they killed our district heads, village and community leaders, traditional rulers and even one of our Amir, Amir Warda, was killed here in Borno.
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"They detonated bomb on me, but lucky enough I escaped with the late deputy governor.ÔÇØ
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— Faith Ukanwa