IPOB Crisis Bigger Than Boko Haram ” Borno Governor

IPOB Crisis Bigger Than Boko Haram

Borno Governor

The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB
separatist crisis being spearheaded by
Nnamdi Kanu is bigger than the activities of
the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram,

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima has
said.

No fewer than 20, 000 people are believed to
have been killed by Boko Haram since the
Islamist sect started its attacks in Borno,
Yobe and Adamawa states, especially and
partly in Abuja and some other parts of the
country about eight years ago.

Thousands of others have been maimed by the
sect that was also responsible for the
infamous abduction of 276 Chibok schoolgirls
in April, 2014. More than 100 of the girls are
still in the sect’s custody.

Thousands of others abducted by the sect
remain unaccounted for.

Speaking in Owerri on Monday night during a
meeting with Imo State Governor Rochas
Okorocha, when he led a truce team of
North’s governors to the state,

Shettima said
the threats posed by the Nnamdi Kanu-led
secessionist IPOB to the nation’s survival are
far bigger than those posed by Boko Haram.
He said it was for this reason that he had to
leave the killings going on in his state behind
to join Governor Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto)
Simon Lalong (Platueau) Aminu Bello Masari
(Katsina) and Abubakar Atiku Bagudu
(Kebbi), on visits to Abia, Rivers and Imo,
seeking peace.

“Only this morning, 25 people were killed in
my state via explosions carried out by three
suicide bombers, but I have to be on this
mission because of what it means to the
nation,” he said.

He noted that the huge population of Nigeria
makes it imperative to avoid anything that
could lead to war among its tribal groups,
wondering which country would have the
capacity to accommodate Nigerian refugees
in the event of another civil war.

He said: “What we wanted to forestall
actually was a mass movement of Nigerians
from one part of the country to another.

It
was a very dangerous signal.