BEVERLY HILLS, December 09, (THEWILL) – A group of Borno indigenes, Borno Patriots, Monday, threatened to shut down the entire Northeast if a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu-Sherrif, is not arrested within the next seven days by the Federal Government.
Maintaining that the five-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the region would not recede as long as Modu Sheriff is still around, the Borno Patriots said in a statement signed by its Chairman, Ibrahim Modu and Secretary, Samuel Mshelizza, that Modu-Sherrif will continue to sabotage any move by the Federal Government to end the insurgency as long as he is a free man.
According to the group, “If he is not arrested within seven days, we shall lead a mass protest of all members in the North east and widows of soldiers to shut down the Northeast. We can no longer allow SAS to dance on the grave of Boko Haram victims and add insult to the injury of grieving mothers.”
The group said: “Senator Ali Sheriff’s visit to Kano to negotiate the release of the seized plane containing ammunitions is an insult on the people of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and Nigerians in general choking under the cloak of the insurgency who are being killed and maimed daily.
“His acceptance of the fact that he was in Kano at the time in question is mockery of the Chibok girls and their suffering parents.”
Demanding his immediate arrest and investigation over his alleged role in bankrolling Boko Haram, the group alleged that “Sheriff and Jonathan have blood on their hands as the lives of over 13,000 people killed so far will surely not go in vain.”
Also calling on Modu-Sherrif to render a stewardship of his maladministration which, according to the group, took Borno he inherited as a peaceful state to a “home in pieces’ due to his selfish political interest, the Borno Patriots alleged that “Sheriff is a man without conscience that even the devil will be scared of him due to the level of evil machinations in him.”
