Ali Modu-Sherrif
Speaking at the ongoing 56th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar
Association (NBA) in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the Borno State Attorney
General and Commissioner for Justice, Kaka Lawan, said that Boko Haram
was a creation of the factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, adding that the insecurity created by Sheriff
in Borno few years ago, metamorphosed into Boko Haram.
The Attorney General who called for the arrest and prosecution of
Ali Modu-Sheriff, said that bad governance and impunity reigned during
Sheriff’s administration as the governor of the state between 2003 and
2011.
Punch Metro
reported that Lawan added that the creation of the Ministry of
Religious Affairs by the then Sheriff administration in Borno and the
killing of the head of the ministry in the 2009 turmoil, worsened the
level of insecurity in the state.
“Ali Modu Sheriff was a former governor of Borno State for eight years and left the state in a state of insecurity.
“The issue that happened in Borno, the insecurity that brought
us to this situation we are in, was as a result of bad governance,
illiteracy, lack of respect for the rule of law, impunity in the
administration of Ali Modu Sheriff and the Federal Government then did
not checkmate his excesses and it escalated to this level.
“Up to today, he is moving freely and nobody is talking to him.
All hands must be on deck, if actually justice must be done to the
hundreds of people that were killed in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“He (Sheriff) should be arrested. He should be investigated. He
should be interrogated for the facts that we have just mentioned in
Port Harcourt here. His records were known to everybody, even to you
media men.
“The Federal Government is aware; the state government is
aware; you media men are aware. They are not only facts; they are
notorious facts. All and sundry are aware.
“Can he deny that fact that he was a governor between 2003 and
2011? Can he deny that Muhammed Yusuf freely operated between 2003 and
2009 and the aberration laws he passed?,” Lawan queried.
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