Emir Sanusi reveals how Boko Haram, other terrorist activities started in Nigeria

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has revealed what aided the persistence of insecurity successful the country.

Sanusi stated this portion elucidating the underlying causes of Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, and different transgression activities passim the nation, particularly successful the North, asserting that citizens indispensable fundamentally reassess their values and direction.

The monarch contended that the nation’s information situation did not originate with violence, banditry, Boko Haram, oregon coercion itself, but alternatively from inflammatory rhetoric disseminated done newspapers by governmental figures who began categorising citizens not arsenic Nigerians, but arsenic Northerners and Southerners, Christians and Muslims, and on tribal lines.

Addressing attendees successful Abuja connected Wednesday astatine the motorboat of a biographical enactment documenting the epoch of Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (retired) arsenic the Chief of Army Staff, Sanusi emphasised that this divisive categorisation fostered an situation conducive to the proliferation of convulsive and transgression organisations.

“The cardinal constituent I privation to emphasise is that the information situation successful this federation did not commence with unit arsenic we presently witnesser it, nor did it commence with banditry. It did not commence with Boko Haram and terrorism. It originated with the unit inherent successful connection tha...