FG to study Boko Haram after defeat, Buhari says

In bid to ensure such a menace does not come to life again, President Muhammadu Buhari says that a sociological study would be conducted on the Boko Haram episode, after they are finally subdued by government.

The president who spoke at the at the opening ceremony of the International Islamic Conference on peace and nation building in Abuja, said: “I assured Nigerians that at the end of the hostilities when the group is subdued, the government would commission a sociological study to determine the origin, the remote and immediate causes of the movement, its sponsors, its international connections if any, to ensure that measures are taken to prevent a recurrence.

He said the theme and timing of the conference, which is a joint effort between Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’a Wa Iqamatis Sunna based in Nigeria and the Muslim World League, is coming when most part of the world is grappling with one form of violent conflict or another.

The president, while also welcoming the Executive Secretary of the Muslim World League, Professor Abdullahi bin Abdulmohsin Al- Turki, said “The outcome of the proceedings of this conference will be useful in that regard”.

Buhari reiterated that Boko Haram is a mindless, godless group who are far away from Islam.

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He told the gathering that Nigeria’s joint cooperation with its neighbours has substantially degraded the attacking capability of Boko Haram and have compelled them to retreat.

“We will pursue them relentlessly until they become an item of history,” he added

He lamented, that: “The tragic paradox of the global insurgency situation is that most of the atrocities committed by various insurgents all over the world today are being carried out mainly by people who pretend to be Muslims, yet most of the victims and casualties are equally Muslims.

“To underscore their cruelty and godlessness, they particularly target the most vulnerable members of the society: children, women and the elderly. No religion approves of such heinous crimes against humanity; definitely not Islam nor Christianity, to which two most Nigerians belong,” he added.

 

 

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