The Maiduguri chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
on Monday urged the Federal Government to adopt some of its strategies against
the Ebola Virus Disease in fighting Boko Haram.
The Chairman of the association, Malam Abdulwasiu Alfa, told
NAN in Maiduguri that the tactics would go a long way in ending insurgency in
the country.
“We commend the Federal Government for gallantly curbing the
spread of the Ebola virus. We urge the government to do so toward ending the
Boko Haram reign of terror in the country,” Alfa said.
Alfa said that if government had adopted the same strategy
in fighting the insurgency the problem would have been solved long ago.
A screengrab taken on August 24, 2014 from a video released
by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows
the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau
(C), delivering a speech at an undisclosed location.
A screengrab taken on August 24, 2014 from a video released
by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows
the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau
(C), delivering a speech at an undisclosed location.
“If the government will fight the insurgency the way it
fought the dreaded Ebola virus, the Boko Haram sect will have been crushed long
ago,” he said.
Alfa also urged the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) and the National Commission for Refugees (NCR) to be more proactive
toward assisting thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno.
“Government agencies charged with providing succor to the
IDPs like NEMA and NCR should be more visible in areas which has the highest
number of IDPs,” Alfa said.
He also called on the Federal Government to issue a white
paper on the Gaji Galtimari Committee of Inquiry into the Boko Haram crisis in
the state.
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