The Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said one of the ways to end the Boko Haram insurgency is for the Federal Government to apologise to members of the sect over the murder of their leader, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s Vice-Presidential running mate in the 2011 presidential elections, said “but for the timely intervention of God, last week’s assassination attempt on General Muhamadu Buhari might have marked the beginning of the end for Nigeria if it had succeeded. We will not also ignore the fact that at the root of the escalation of the Boko Haram crisis was oppression and injustice."
”The summary execution of Boko Haram’s former leader, Mohammed Yusuf in 2009 provided the soil of martyrdom for the nurture and growth of the sect. Government must declare peace first of all; apologising for the murder of Mohammed Yusuf to the sect members not their sympathisers or bandits.”
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/bakare-wants-fg-apologise-boko-haram-killing-leader/
Posted 28 July, 2014.
Should federal government abide with this idea? Maybe or maybe not.
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