According to Vanguard, Converter
of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said one of the ways
to end Boko Haram insurgency is for the Federal Government to apologise to
members of the sect over the murder of their leader, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009.
He,
however, said last Wednesday’s attack on former Head of State, General
Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy in Kaduna State is an indication that bombing in
the country is taking a new dimension.
Bakare, who is the Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, spoke during a state
of the nation address at a church service in Lagos.
Proffering
ways of ending the Boko Haram insurgency, Bakare said there was need for
“updating and strengthening of military capability, creation of jobs and
enhanced welfare to discourage recruits of the sect, diplomatic engagement with
the international community, creation of an atmosphere of political inclusion
rather than exclusion, among others. We need a strong and well-coordinated
approach to terrorism.”
Bakare,
who was Buhari’s Vice-Presidential running mate in the 2011 presidential
elections, said “but for the timely intervention of God, last week’s
assassination attempt on General Muhamadu Buhari might have marked the
beginning of the end for Nigeria if it had succeeded. We will not also ignore
the fact that at the root of the escalation of the Boko Haram crisis was
oppression and injustice.
”The
summary execution of the Boko Haram’s former leader, Mohammed Yusuf in 2009
provided the soil of martyrdom for the nurture and growth of the sect.
Government must declare peace first of all; apologising for the murder of
Mohammed Yusuf to the sect members not their sympathisers or bandits.”
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Begging Boko Haram is not an option
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