From. Sadiq abubakar Maiduguri
The federal government effort at ending the insurgency in the Northeast would be an effort in futility as long as the former governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff is walking freely on Nigerian streets, a group of Borno indigenes said on Monday.
The group, Borno Patriots in a press statement signed by its Chairman, Ibrahim Modu and Secretary, Samuel Mshelizza, said the former governor will not allow the military to end the insurgency as “he will continue to sabotage such move.”
The group threatened a mass protest that will shut down the northeast if Sheriff is not arrested within the next seven days.
They said: “If he is not arrested within seven days, we shall lead a mass protest of all members in the north east and widows of soldiers to shut down the northeast. We can no longer allow SAS to dance on the grave of Boko Haram victims and add salt to the injury of grieving mothers.”
The group said: “Senator Ali Sheriff’s visit to Kano to negotiate the release of the seized plane containing ammunitions is an insult on the people of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and Nigerians in general choking under the cloak of the insurgency who are being killed and maimed daily.
“His acceptance of the fact that he was in Kano at the time in question is mockery of the Chibok girls and their suffering parents.”
The group who demanded for the immediate arrest and investigation of Sheriff for his alleged role in funding Boko Haram, insisted that: ‘Sheriff and Jonathan have blood on their hands as the lives of over 13,000 people killed so far will surely not go in vain,”
The Borno Patriots while calling on the former governor to account for his maladministration which took Borno he inherited as a peaceful state to a “home in pieces’ due to his selfish political interest, alleged that “Sheriff is a man without conscience that even the devil will be scared of him, due to the level of evil machinations in him.”
