Northern govs raise committee on Boko Haram sponsors

In from Olumide Olaoluwa… .
The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has inaugurated a committee to identify sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists with a view to prosecuting them.
Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, who inaugurated the committee at the State House, Kawo Kaduna on Friday, assured that the days of the insurgents were numbered.
He hinged this on the constant dislodgement of the insurgents from their strongholds by the military.
Shettima said the committee which will operate under the aegis of the Committee of Attorneys-General and Commissioners of Justice of the 19 northern states, had the mandate to review the criminal justice system as agreed by the northern governors during their last meeting.

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Enumerating the committee’s assignment, Shettima said: “They should also look at the condemnable activities of the so called sponsors of the insurgency and come up with legally pragmatic, appropriate and proportionate punishment.
“The Committee should also focus specifically on parents who because of some pittance sacrifice their children as suicide bombers. Such parents must be made to face the full wrath of the law.”
He added that the committee should conduct a “thorough and meticulous review of the Penal Code as it exists with a view to pointing out its weaknesses and constraints in the overall administration of Criminal Justice System in the Northern States.”

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