The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that the Boko Haram insurgency has neither religious nor ethnic support and that this fact has become obvious to majority of Nigerians.
While receiving Karin Ahmad Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at State House, Abuja, the President expressed that it is now clear to the people that Boko Haram has been hiding under the shadow of religion to carrying out their deadly acts, hence their actions are acceptable to Islamic ideology.
According to him, “God is justice. You can’t kill innocent people, and shout; Allah Akbar (God is great). It’s either you don’t know that God at all, or you are simply being stupid.
“To say Western education is unacceptable (Haram) is very fraudulent. That is why we are fighting them, and educating the people. And we are succeeding a lot. We came to office when things were very bad, but we are educating the people.
“Education is fundamental. Religion and ethnicity are out of it. Some people have just made it a lifestyle to cause confusion, destruction, and death.”
While responding, the ICC Prosecutor said the ICC believes in complementarity, “which promotes collaboration, as against confrontation,” counseling Nigeria in concert with other Sahel/Lake Chad basin countries to get the United Nations Security Council to refer the atrocities committed by the terrorist groups operating in the region to ICC, for investigation and subsequently trial.
President Buhari however renewed his commitment to ending Boko Haram insurgency.
Source: The Informant247 Naija News