We are seeing hell – Borno Elders

The Bornu Elders, Monday gave a graphic details of how life
in Borno and the entire north east has been reduced to hell by the
activities insurgents.
Addressing a gathering of Northern Elders Forum in Kano, Zanna
Hassan Boguma who delivered a goodwill message on behalf of Borno
Elders Forum declared that the entire region is now engaged in full
time war from enemy within.
Boguma stated that “we have been seeing hell, our people are
constantly decimated, our towns and villages razed, properties
destroyed, schools and places of worship burnt, even innocent
travelers were not spared” .
The elder stateman said that from the inceasant attack that the axis
had witnessed in the last weeks was a confirmation of how vulnerable
the entire region is.
He disclosed that the region has been turn in to a war zone with
attendant humanitarian crisis, stressing that this is the time the
whole country should mobilized to stop the carnage.
Boguma who doubted the intention of the perpetrators of this crime
against humanity in the region was quick to add that “much as we
know, the whole matter has nothing to do with claimed intention of a
section imposing their will on the others, or issues of sharia or
making the country ungovernable for the President or a religious war
as they want to look at it”.
He however accused the Federal Government of lacking the political
will to address the crisis, pointing out that Borno Elders is surprised
at the grave yard silence of Government and its inability to implement
several report on the insurgency turned in by expert engaged to do so
by the same Government.
The Borno Elders noted that the solution to the crisis does not lie
with the PDP or APC, maintaining that the situation at hand
transcend politics and urged the entire Country to identify with them
at the moment of need.
This catastrophe which has befallen us should be the concern of all
Northerners irrespective of tribe, region, or creed. Those of you who
are residing far away shold know that other citizens needed your
sympathy and attention”.
Boguma posited that “until those who were namd as supporters,
financiers, and alliesto the Boko Haram were brought to justice,
untilthe political Boko Haram were apprehended and prosecuted, until
the operations to contain this madness is sincerely handled, lives of
our innocent villagers will continued to be sacrificed”.