The Shehu Borno, Abubakar El-Kanemi, says foreigners, who penetrated the Northeast region in the guise of seeking to acquire Quranic education are responsible for Boko Haram insurgency.
The traditional ruler said this at a town hall meeting organised by Yateem Faqeer Global Foundation in Abuja, on Thursday.
He said people of the region had suffered so much in the hands of the insurgents.
In his words, “Borno has witnessed so many things, both good and bad. Boko Haram is something meaningless, mindless and without any sense of direction as none of the Holy Books, either Quran or the Bible, indicates that you show disrespect to others, burn and destroy their property. And I want people to know that Boko Haram was never initiated or started by people of the North-East Zone. It is something they just brought to us from nowhere.
“Boko Haram insurgents came to Borno and the North-East in the guise of acquiring Quranic education while not many did not know they had an ideology which was polluted as well as promoted into the minds of the youths, and created havoc in our area.”
He however recommended both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches as panacea to Nigeria’s insecurity.
