Unveil Identities Of Boko Haram Sponsors, Prevent Another Civil War- MBF To Buhari

The Middle Belt Forum’s (MBF) National Executive Committee (NEC) has warned President Muhammadu Buhari’s government against taking steps that may plunge the country into another civil war.

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According to the group, the warning comes against the backdrop of assassinations and other criminal actions taking place around the country.

Killings by Fulani Herdsmen have reached a Genocidal level. -MBF.

The forum stated in a communique signed by its National President, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, at the weekend after a two-day meeting in Akwanga, Nasarawa state, that the incessant invasions of several communities in many parts of the country by Fulani militia have reached genocidal and ethnic-cleansing proportions.

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The statement also encouraged the Nigerian government to establish the Middle Belt Development Commission (MBDC) to operate as an intervention body in tackling the difficulties generated by terrorist operations.

The group encouraged the government to come clean and comply with the Nigerian public’s demand to reveal the identity of Boko Haram’s backers, particularly the 400 Bureax de Change operators identified by UAE authorities.

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“Nigeria has been thrown into a grave condition of insecurity as a result of the actions of Boko Haram terrorists, armed Fulani militia, kidnappers/bandits, and other related criminal forces,” according to the bulletin.

“This spate of insecurity has pushed the nation to the precipice. NEC calls on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to arrest the situation and save the nation from another civil war.

“The incessant invasions by Fulani militia on several communities across the Middle Belt Region in particular, and other parts of the country in general, have assumed genocidal/ethnic cleansing scale.

“These attacks have left in their wake mind-boggling massacres and devastations in our communities and displacement of indigenous peoples to various Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps.

“NEC calls on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to return displaced communities to their ancestral lands, given the fact that territory can no longer be acquired in the 21st century by the use of force.”

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“NEC also calls on the government to identify all IDPs in the Middle Belt Region and provide relief materials for them.

“NEC calls on the Federal Government to identify, apprehend and bring the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against humanity to justice so as to serve as a deterrent to others.

“Consequently, NEC calls on the government to set up an agency to be called the Middle Belt Development Commission (MBDC) to serve as an intervention agency in addressing the challenges caused by the activities of these terrorists”.

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“Many schools and places of worship in the Middle Belt Region have remained closed due to the criminal activities of these Fulani kidnappers and bandits.

NEC regrets that many school children and other hapless citizens are still languishing in the dens of kidnappers. NEC further appeals to the government to take urgent steps to rescue those in captivity.

“The MBF insists that the Federal Government must come clean and yield to the demand by the Nigerian public to unveil the identities of the sponsors of Boko Haram, especially the 400 Bureax de change operators as identified by the UAE authorities.”

The MBF also expressed concern, citing a United Nations (UN) claim that the Nigerian government is secretly involved in ‘Sulhu’ negotiations with Boko Haram terrorists, through which it is purportedly paying monetary prizes to insurgents and other criminals.

“Consequently, NEC is totally opposed to this project and also opposed to any form of amnesty to insurgents and other terror groups who have their hands dripping with blood. NEC is also vehemently opposed to any planned recruitment of these so-called repentant terrorists into the national security architecture,” it said.

The MBF commended the Southern governors and governors in the Middle Belt, as well as their state assemblies, for their courage in passing Anti-Open Grazing Laws in their states, calling on the people of the Middle Belt Region to rise up and defend themselves in the face of governments abandoning their constitutional responsibility to defend them.

As a result, the forum urged the National Assembly and the presidency to reconsider their stance on electronic transmission of election results and give in to the wishes of the Nigerian people, who are demanding that electronic transmission of electoral results be implemented completely in order to ensure credibility and transparency in the electoral process.