President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed satisfaction that Boko Haram has successfully been separated from Islamic religion as a cover for the sacrilegious mayhem its members have visited on the psyche of Nigeria.
This is even as he asked religious leaders in Nigeria to do more in exposing the hypocrisy of the sect, whose members, he emphasized, have been stripped of all of the religious colouration and pretensions.
President Buhari who spoke when he received Ecuador’s new Ambassador to Nigeria, Leopoldo Rovayo Verdesoto at the Presidential Villa, Abuja insisted that the group has since been fully exposed as vicious terrorists, devoid of any moral or philosophical direction.
He recalled that a lot had already been done to properly expose Boko Haram as a ruthless, destructive and misguided terrorist group, adding: “what we have succeeded in doing is to separate terrorism from religion. The initial attraction for recruitments was religion. But now, people cannot relate with their relevance anymore and they are only associated with the destruction of lives and properties.
“If your life does not mean anything to you, other peoples’ lives will not mean anything to you as well. And people are beginning to see that Boko Haram is just about destruction and nothing else.”
President Buhari said that his administration will continue to prioritize diversification and other measures to help the Nigerian economy withstand the shock of falling crude oil prices.
The Ecuador’s new Ambassador was at the Presidential Villa to present his letter of credence.
The new Ambassador of Zambia, Dr. Solomon Jere and the new Ambassador of Colombia, Ms. Claudia Turbay Quintereo also presented their letters of credence to the President who wished them successful tenures in Nigeria. [myad]
