The Northern Elders’ Council (NEC) has voiced solidarity with President Muhammadu Buhari and voiced confidence in his capacity to effectively prevent the remnants of terrorists from the nation after the killing of farmworkers from Borno State.
The NEC stated groups or persons gloating over the gloomy incident for a means of deriding President Buhari is tacitly encouraging Boko Haram to kill more.
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In line with this council, the unhappy incident should rather function as a wake-up telephone to all applicable stakeholders no matter pecuniary differences to encourage the army.
The group, however, urged the global community to support Nigeria by cutting off the terrorists’ access to arms and funding.
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The Northern Elders’ Council (NEC) is advocating the Boko Haram terrorists responsible for killing dozens of farmers at Zabarmari, Borno State shouldn’t go unpunished because of their ancestral crime against humankind.
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The particular individuals that carried out the attack ought to be recognized and dealt with while the effort to exterminate the terrorist team ought to be escalated. This is as we grapple with the families of the bereaved, President Muhammadu Buhari and also the whole nation.
We condemn the killing of those innocent farmers, who have been just out to make their livelihood, in the strongest terms as barbaric, gruesome, inexcusable, depraved and deserving of the harshest effects potential. The punishment for this offense needs to be made especially stiff given that the terrorists maybe targeted the farmers to precipitate a food crisis.
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The authorities regrets the terrorists and their enablers dedicated the murder despite all Mr President’s sacrifices and the Nigerian army by harnessing the political setting from Borno State to inflict distress on humankind.
The killing of these farmers must now prompt an orientation among all stakeholders no matter pecuniary differences. Those sitting on the fence at the anti-terror war should now have a stand in the sake of humankind while people who usually create justification for the offenses perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists must now know that it is them against the civilized earth that holds the sanctity of human life precious.
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We appeal to people currently hoping to squeeze political capital from the disaster to have a rethink since it’s dreadful for anyone to become callous to the purpose of working with the death of innocent men in the hands of terrorists as a way of gaining political grip.
NEC is sure that the passing of those farmers will activate actions that promise that days of these terrorists are numbered, and this singular evil and dastardly action is they will pay the highest price potential. Nigerians should help make sure it by supplying the army and security agencies with timely advice that will result in successful military operations from Boko Haram fighters.
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We, therefore, advocate Mr President to provide the control for the Nigerian army to unleash Boko Haram and some of its famous affiliates although the intelligence community can also be mandated to fish outside terrorists’ enablers to cut the fiscal, wisdom and propaganda they get from their fans. Resources must be entrusted to climb up the operations to rid northeast Nigeria and the whole Lake Chad Basin of terrorism.
The global community has to at this stage shake their indifference, especially nations whose foreign policy drive had led to the growth of extremism and terrorism. They ought to encourage Nigeria by helping in cutting off the terrorists’ access to arms and funding. Those nations who have refused to sell arms to Nigeria have to at this point have a rethink particularly when it is becoming crystal clear that their delicate embargoes on arms sales to Nigeria have been premised on false reporting by NGOs that covertly function to progress the cause of the terrorists.
