Nigeria can defeat B’Haram, says Buhari
A former military Head of State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), insisted on Thursday that Nigeria had the capacity to defeat the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect.
Buhari also noted that the sect’s activities should not be linked to Islam as being done in some quarters, adding that the sect could not have claimed to be fighting a religious cause when, they killed innocent people and destroyed worship places.
He said the earlier the Federal Government realize that the Boko Haram activities were not religious but terrorism, the better.
The former Nigerian leader, who spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of Americamonitored in Kaduna on Thursday, regretted the death of innocent people who were at the scenes of the twin blasts.
He said, “We were on our way then a car suddenly started to trail us and was trying to get close to my vehicle but the vehicle following mine did not allow that. When we reached Kawo, near the market, he had to wait for other vehicles coming from the other end. It was the right side of the market on the left side is the road coming into Kaduna before the overhead bridge.
“From the right side, they detonated the bomb but Allah saved us. The three vehicles on my convoy were affected. I came out unhurt but I saw many people on the ground, some were dead while others were seriously injured. My aides were injured but they were treated and discharged.
“Nobody had written me or called to threaten me. The incidence took me by surprise.”
Buhari also noted that the sect’s activities should not be linked to Islam as being done in some quarters, adding that the sect could not have claimed to be fighting a religious cause when, they killed innocent people and destroyed worship places.
He said the earlier the Federal Government realize that the Boko Haram activities were not religious but terrorism, the better.
The former Nigerian leader, who spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of Americamonitored in Kaduna on Thursday, regretted the death of innocent people who were at the scenes of the twin blasts.
He said, “We were on our way then a car suddenly started to trail us and was trying to get close to my vehicle but the vehicle following mine did not allow that. When we reached Kawo, near the market, he had to wait for other vehicles coming from the other end. It was the right side of the market on the left side is the road coming into Kaduna before the overhead bridge.
“From the right side, they detonated the bomb but Allah saved us. The three vehicles on my convoy were affected. I came out unhurt but I saw many people on the ground, some were dead while others were seriously injured. My aides were injured but they were treated and discharged.
“Nobody had written me or called to threaten me. The incidence took me by surprise.”
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