Minna —The Chairman of the 19 Northern
Governors Forum and governor of Niger State, Dr.
Muazu Babangida Aliyu has lamented that Nigeria
would not have been in the current situation she
has found herself following the violent activities of
Boko Haram insurgents if the then military
administration had taken the bull by horns by
nipping it in the bud when the crisis started about
14 years ago in 1990.
Aliyu, who spoke on a programme, Platform
organised by the Correspondents Chapel of
Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Niger State
also said it was not the responsibility of the
northern governors to declare war on anybody or
insurgents, as such powers belonged the Federal
Government.
He stressed that the Book Haram war lasted till
now due to the levity with which the sensitive
issue was treated when it started.
“Bok o Haram did not start yesterday. It had been
with us since 1990. Sometimes in some parts of
the North, some privileged children started tearing
their academic certificates and said they were
migrating. We failed to take any decisive action
as we turned our faces against the act because
we felt it did not concern us.
‘’Anybody who has gone to the university and you
see him tearing his certificate; you will know that
something is wrong somewhere and this is
exactly what happened and here we are today
and it is our hope that we will overcome this
crisis,” the governor said.
He called on all Nigerians to be more vigilant and
be more security conscious and also join hands
with all arms of government in order to overcome
the insurgences facing the country.
Aliyu had been asked to explain why the 19
governors in the defunct Northern Region had not
teamed up the fight the insurgents.
He however, said that the northern governors
cannot as a team or individually wage war
against the insurgents because it was not within
their constitutional powers to do so.
source http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/aliyu-blames-military-boko-haram/

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imagined boko since 1990 am the past government and northerners big men keep quite! when the so called graduate are tearing their certificate u ppl are sleeping? only oil they pain Nigerians government n northerners big big since 00000000AD

1990 is not 14 years ago,why blame past Government,if the current Government van not crush Boko haram,I think it should step down and stop blaming everyone,us government,past military government,APC,North,etc.

Nctrice:
OP please can you pin point where he blamed the military as you stated in the title of the thread?

bro am sorry vanguard the source match line.

masseratti:
1990 is not 14 years ago,why blame past Government,if the current Government van not crush Boko haram,I think it should step down and stop blaming everyone,us government,past military government,APC,North,etc.

but no president don ever step down for 9ja na good or badt they keep on going............