Ali Modu Sheriff
The factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, who is currently fighting to lead the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has been accused by Borno State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Kaka Lawan as being the creator of Boko Haram.
Lawan made the allegation at the ongoing 56th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Port Harcourt. He said the insecurity created by Sheriff in Borno few years ago metamorphosed into Boko Haram.
The AG fails to understand why Sheriff is still in circulation as a free man. He called for his arrest and prosecution of the factional chairman of the PDP. Lawan told his audience that bad governance and impunity reigned supreme during Sheriff’s administration as the governor of the state between 2003 and 2011.
He explained that the creation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs by Sheriff 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.
However Sheriff, through his Special Adviser of Media, Mallam Inuwa Bwala, has denied the allegation by the commissioner. He said that Lawan was not sincere and that he was acting the script allegedly written by Governor Kashim Shettima.
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