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APC Calls For Inquiry To Unravel Boko Haram
Sponsors, Modus Operandi by BashBB: 2:38pm On Jul 13 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an
international inquiry into the activities of the terror
group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus
operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or
group that may have links with the insurgents, with
a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate
efforts to tackle it decisively
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the inquiry should include
intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and
Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
It also said that representatives of the Nigerian
military and other security agencies, especially the
police and the Departments of State Security,
Governments of the states worst-hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, including Adamawa, Borno,
Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa, the Federal Capital
Territory, the Christian Association of Nigeria, the
Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Civil Society
Organisations, the Nigeria Labour Congress, the
Trade Union Congress, National Human Rights Commission, the Nigerian Bar Association and any
other relevant individuals or groups.
APC said major political parties, including the
Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives
Congress, must be represented on the panel of
inquiry, whose findings must be made public and those found to have any links with the insurgents
be made to face the full wrath of the law.
”We hope the PDP-led federal government, which
has led the incessant but baseless campaign to
point accusing fingers at the opposition, especially
our party the APC, will give its total support to the immediate constitution of this international panel
of inquiry. We have no doubt that the international
community will give its unalloyed support to this
inquiry, in view of the trans-national nature of the
insurgency and the threat posed by terrorism to
global peace and security,” the party said. APC added: ”On our part, we pledge our total
support for this inquiry anytime it is launched, but
hopefully very soon. Our party, which is barely one
year old, has been at the receiving end of
diversionary, carefully-choreographed and blatantly
irresponsible point-blank accusations as well as insinuations of sponsoring Boko Haram, not
minding that the group’s activities date as far back
as 2002 when there was no APC.
”These accusations and insinuations have become
so virulent and have indeed reached a level where
one begins to wonder whether those behind the finger-pointing are actually trying to divert
attention from their own culpability and whether
they have even more sinister motives for their
finger-pointing.
”Whatever their motives are, let the international
inquiry we are seeking be launched urgently and let the findings be published for all Nigerians to see.
Anyone opposed to this call for an international
inquiry will have a lot of explanations to make to
Nigerians as well as to the international
community.
”Enough is enough. The daily killing, maiming and abduction of innocent Nigerians, as a clueless
Federal Government looks on, must end. The
pervasive insecurity that has crippled Nigeria since
this insurgency started must be halted. Those
behind it must be unraveled and prosecuted. Let
the inquiry begin!’ http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/apc-calls-inquiry-
unravel-boko-haram-sponsors-modus-operandi/

APC Calls For Inquiry To Unravel Boko Haram Sponsors, Modus Operandi by BashBB: 2:38pm On Jul 13 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into the activities of the terror group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or group that may have links with the insurgents, with a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate efforts to tackle it decisively In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the inquiry should include intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger. It also said that representatives of the Nigerian military and other security agencies, especially the police and the Departments of State Security, Governments of the states worst-hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, including Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa, the Federal Capital Territory, the Christian Association of Nigeria, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Civil Society Organisations, the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, National Human Rights Commission, the Nigerian Bar Association and any other relevant individuals or groups. APC said major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, must be represented on the panel of inquiry, whose findings must be made public and those found to have any links with the insurgents be made to face the full wrath of the law. ”We hope the PDP-led federal government, which has led the incessant but baseless campaign to point accusing fingers at the opposition, especially our party the APC, will give its total support to the immediate constitution of this international panel of inquiry. We have no doubt that the international community will give its unalloyed support to this inquiry, in view of the trans-national nature of the insurgency and the threat posed by terrorism to global peace and security,” the party said. APC added: ”On our part, we pledge our total support for this inquiry anytime it is launched, but hopefully very soon. Our party, which is barely one year old, has been at the receiving end of diversionary, carefull

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