Only Justice, served without discrimination can end Boko Haram insurgency, former Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, said yesterday.
The ex-Sultan whose son, Col. Sambo
Dasuki (rtd) is the National SecurityAdviser (NSA), also criticised North’s governors’ approach to security in the region.The North has been battered by violent killings and attacks for which Boko Haram (western education is a sin) has claimed responsibility.
Although the governors recently set up a committee to look into the security situation in the north, the former Sultan is not convinced about their approach to the problem. He spoke at a news conference in Kaduna.
The former Sultan who was deposed by the Abacha regime and banished to Kaduna said the nation was going through a serious mess.
He urged leaders to urgently correct the negative state of things if the nation must move forward.
He said he had personally alerted the governors of the north to security challenges, but they did not show any interest in his suggestions for peaceful co-existence.
He kicked against the agitation for state police, aligning himself with those who argue that governors will misuse such security outfit.
He said: “Justice is very important, justice means everywhere. Everyone is entitled to justice and we must do justice.... Last year, somebody asked me how to solve Boko Haram problem and I said let the government from local government to Aso Villa declare justice and the problem of Boko Haram will finish.
“But if injustice continues, I don’t think the problem will be solved. The Boko Haram leader was killed and somebody who was responsible for it is still moving freely without any arrest. That is injustice.
“Only fairness, justice, transparency and honesty will solve Nigerian problems including security challenges. Let the government at all levels declare justice everywhere and stand by it. Our country is in a mess”.
Speaking on the ability of Col Dasuki to address the security challenge, he said: “my son was given the job and I think we have started seeing the positive results. My son is a mature person with his family and he is capable of taking decisions. Now, I go out every day to pray without being afraid of any attack”
On the agitation for state Police, he said: “State police will not help.
“Governors will run state police like local government councils. The courts are corrupt, people buy justice now in this country. Only in this country we have over 700 first ladies from president, governors to local government council chairmen’s wives.
“I sent ten copies of my Peaceful Co-existence plan to northern governors but none of them showed interest. Only the federal government and Kaduna state showed interest in the book. Kaduna State government set up committee to that effect.
“The security system is a licence for oppression. Think of someone arrested on an unproved offence. He will be asked to pay something before he could be given bail. Or think of the recent past whereby security officers wrote fake reports on someone else then collect large sum of money to establish the truth of that given case.
“They go to their villages, keep the money, come back with another false report in order to collect more money. This will go on and on until they report that the person they were pursuing had died in a car accident. That is the end of the matter. We have got very cheap and unbiased security system through the traditional institutions,” he said.
Although the governors recently set up a committee to look into the security situation in the north, the former Sultan is not convinced about their approach to the problem. He spoke at a news conference in Kaduna.
The former Sultan who was deposed by the Abacha regime and banished to Kaduna said the nation was going through a serious mess.
He urged leaders to urgently correct the negative state of things if the nation must move forward.
He said he had personally alerted the governors of the north to security challenges, but they did not show any interest in his suggestions for peaceful co-existence.
He kicked against the agitation for state police, aligning himself with those who argue that governors will misuse such security outfit.
He said: “Justice is very important, justice means everywhere. Everyone is entitled to justice and we must do justice.... Last year, somebody asked me how to solve Boko Haram problem and I said let the government from local government to Aso Villa declare justice and the problem of Boko Haram will finish.
“But if injustice continues, I don’t think the problem will be solved. The Boko Haram leader was killed and somebody who was responsible for it is still moving freely without any arrest. That is injustice.
“Only fairness, justice, transparency and honesty will solve Nigerian problems including security challenges. Let the government at all levels declare justice everywhere and stand by it. Our country is in a mess”.
Speaking on the ability of Col Dasuki to address the security challenge, he said: “my son was given the job and I think we have started seeing the positive results. My son is a mature person with his family and he is capable of taking decisions. Now, I go out every day to pray without being afraid of any attack”
On the agitation for state Police, he said: “State police will not help.
“Governors will run state police like local government councils. The courts are corrupt, people buy justice now in this country. Only in this country we have over 700 first ladies from president, governors to local government council chairmen’s wives.
“I sent ten copies of my Peaceful Co-existence plan to northern governors but none of them showed interest. Only the federal government and Kaduna state showed interest in the book. Kaduna State government set up committee to that effect.
“The security system is a licence for oppression. Think of someone arrested on an unproved offence. He will be asked to pay something before he could be given bail. Or think of the recent past whereby security officers wrote fake reports on someone else then collect large sum of money to establish the truth of that given case.
“They go to their villages, keep the money, come back with another false report in order to collect more money. This will go on and on until they report that the person they were pursuing had died in a car accident. That is the end of the matter. We have got very cheap and unbiased security system through the traditional institutions,” he said.
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