Sheriff created Boko Haram, says Borno AG
Sheriff created Boko Haram, says Borno AG
The Borno State Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Kaka
Lawan, said on Tuesday that Boko
Haram was a creation of the factional
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Ali Modu Sheriff.
Lawan, who spoke at the ongoing 56th
Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar
Association in Port Harcourt, explained
that the insecurity created by Sheriff in
Borno few years ago metamorphosed
into Boko Haram.
Calling for the arrest and prosecution of
the factional chairman of the PDP,
Lawan specifically said that bad
governance and impunity reigned
during Sheriff’s administration as the
governor of the state between 2003 and
2011.
He added that the creation of the
Ministry of Religious Affairs by the then
Sheriff administration in Borno and the
killing of the head of the ministry in the
2009 turmoil worsened the level of
insecurity in the state.
“Ali Modu Sheriff was a former
governor of Borno State for eight years
and left the state in a state of insecurity.
“The issue that happened in Borno, the
insecurity that brought us to this
situation we are in, was as a result of
bad governance, illiteracy, lack of
respect for the rule of law, impunity in
the administration of Ali Modu Sheriff
and the Federal Government then did
not checkmate his excesses and it
escalated to this level.
“Up to today, he is moving freely and
nobody is talking to him. All hands
must be on deck, if actually justice must
be done to the hundreds of people that
were killed in the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
“He (Sheriff) should be arrested. He
should be investigated. He should be
interrogated for the facts that we have
just mentioned in Port Harcourt here.
His records were known to everybody,
even to you media men.
“The Federal Government is aware; the
state government is aware; you media
men are aware. They are not only facts;
they are notorious facts. All and sundry
are aware.
“Can he deny that fact that he was a
governor between 2003 and 2011? Can
he deny that Muhammed Yusuf freely
operated between 2003 and 2009 and
the aberration laws he passed?” Lawan
queried.
But Sheriff has dismissed the allegation
by the commissioner, saying Lawan
was not sincere and that he was acting
the script allegedly written by Governor
Kashim Shettima.
Sheriff, who spoke through his Special
Adviser of Media, Mallam Inuwa Bwala,
said that the commissioner should look
inward to the government to enable him
to know those behind the Boko Haram
menace in the state.
He said, “The commissioner is talking
rubbish. He’s acting the script of his
governor. Sheriff made the governor
what he is today.
“Those who are making the allegation
should know that three of his (Sheriff)
brothers were killed by Boko Haram, his
family is being threatened by the Boko
Haram.
“The AGF’s predecessor died in
circumstances not clear. What killed
him and who killed him? The people are
suspecting who is behind the killing. I
pity him, he doesn’t know what he is
talking about. He is serving in a
government that created and funded
Boko Haram.”
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