A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Senator Abba Ali, has reacted to the worsening state of the
insecurity in the country, saying President Muhammadu Buhari
inherited the problem from the former government of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Ali, who spoke from Katsina, disclosed this on Wednesday during
a phone interview on Channels Television’s Politics
Today.
“The insecurity we inherited in the country was not the making
of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is from other parties,
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when they were in power,” the
member of the APC National Caretaker Committee said.
“The Chibok girls were taken away for quite some months; they
did not do anything until this regime came in. Boko Haram in the
past occupied 17 local government areas of Borno State.
“The government in the country is doing all they can to make
sure that the people are secured, catered for. This government has
done a lot, is doing a lot and will continue to do a lot to make
sure that this country becomes a secured country.”
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Borno Landmine Explosion
Nigeria has been fighting the insurgency war for over a decade
following the killing of Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf
allegedly by the police authorities in 2009.
The terrorists have launched a series of attacks in the
northeast bordering Borno, Yobe and Adamawa with tens of thousands
said to have died from the insurgency.
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On November 28, the terrorists invaded Zabarmari village in
Borno State and slaughtered no fewer than 44 rice farmers, a
situation that drew condemnation from many, including the United
Nations, United States, and Pope Francis.
Three weeks after, the insurgents stormed four villages in the
southern part of Borno State and had a field day during the over
8-hour attack, despite military operations ongoing in the
region.
Just today, seven local hunters died from a landmine left by
Boko Haram militants in a village near Maiduguri, the Borno State
capital.
The ill-fated hunters on a routine patrol with the military
drove over the explosives that killed them instantly beyond
recognition, a local vigilante source said.
Boko Haram and a splinter group known as the Islamic State of
West Africa Province (ISWAP) have launched a series of attacks in
Nigeria for more than a decade now.
More than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million
displaced in a decade of Boko Haram violence in Nigeria, according
to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, violence by Boko Haram has
affected 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced
2.6 million others.
A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Jigawa State, on Wednesday,
sentenced to prison a social media commentator following his
Facebook comments which accused Governor Muhammadu Badaru of
fraud.
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The convict, Sabi’u Chamo, a social media promoter of Sabo
Nakudu, an APC senator for Jigawa Central, accused Governor Badaru
for duping APC aspirants by collecting their money with the promise
to give them party tickets.
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Mr Nakudu is the leader of a factional group of the APC in the
state as opposed to the Mr Badaru’s faction of the party.
Earlier, the governor, while inaugurating the state APC
caretaker committee, said “I will remain vigilant watching those of
you going to meeting with the other factional group, you have got
enough of my patience, I will no longer tolerate that again.
The state government earlier on December 24 sued Mr Chamo over
the Facebook statement. However, the court ordered that the police
should effect his arrest and investigate the suspect before
prosecution, which the police did.
Before his arrest, Mr Chamo, earlier on December 20, retracted
his statement on Facebook and apologised to those who might have
been offended, saying ”that I learnt that my write up have offended
many which is why I am apologizing, thank you, he wrote on his
Facebook page in Hausa Language.
The spokesperson for the state’s Ministry of Justice, Zainab
Baba-Santali, in a statement confirmed that Mr Chamo was sentenced
to six months in a correctional facility for his comments which
injured the governor’s reputation.
The court, however, gave the convict an optional fine of
N20,000.
The Chief Magistrate’s Court 1 sitting in Dutse presided over by
Batula Dauda also said the convicted person would receive 20 lashes
of stroke for the comments to serve as a deterrent to others.
During the trial, after the charge was read to the defendant, he
pleaded guilty to the offence after which the court sentenced him
to six (6) months in a correctional center or Twenty thousand Naira
fine (20,000) and 20 strokes of cane to serve as a deterrent to
others.