SUSPENDED Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, on Tuesday appeared before the Force Disciplinary Committee from his detention.

The committee, which usually sits behind closed doors, is made up of all the Deputy Inspectors General of Police.
Informed sources disclosed to the Nigerian Tribune that Biu appeared with some of the policemen in whose custody the most wanted terrorist, Kabiru Umar, alias Kabiru Sokoto, escaped.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that his appearance before the Force Disciplinary Committee for negligence is in furtherance to the query issued him last week by the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim.
The source revealed that the committee seriously quizzed Biu on the circumstances that led to the escape of Umar.

Biu had been queried for negligence and not carrying out the directives of the IGP, to thoroughly investigate Umar and also apprehend his co-terrorists.

The recommendation of the Force Disciplinary Committee would be forwarded to the Police Service Commission (PSC), that has the final decision on Biu’s fate.

Meanwhile, the State Security Service (SSS), in Nasarawa State, has started mounting security surveillance on strategic areas of the state, having barricaded most major roads, including a part of the busy Kwandere road, popularly known as Alhamis market, in Lafia metropolis.

The initiative by the operatives has been having effect on traffic in the state capital with traffic jam being experienced, as the officials explained that the move was to prevent any likelihood of unexpected attack by members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Dagaci Ahmadu, the district head of the area, expressed surprise at the action by the security agency, noting that the area had never been known as a trouble spot for a long time, as he lamented the hardship being faced by the development was causing the people.

According to him, the blockage of major roads in his area had been taking its toll on businesses and that the free movements by school children to and from their respective schools had been badly affected, more so as the traffic had been diverted to the playground of a major school.

He disclosed that the development had prompted some of the youth to plan a protest, adding that their plan was halted by the emirate council in Lafia, which prevailed on the youth to maintain the peace, to allow the elders to intervene.

The district head revealed that officials of the Lafia Emirate Council had to prevail on the aggrieved youth of the area not to stage protest over the issue, saying that the officials had taken a drastic measure to resolve the impasse amicably.

Some teachers in Lafia, who pleaded anonymity, told the Nigerian Tribune that life had not been the same for the school children, owing to the congestion they had been grappling with on their way to school, stating: “Now the children cannot play during break time due to the traffic congestion, which runs through the main football pitch of their school.

The state Director of the SSS, Abubakar Bubuche, in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune said, “the agency resolved to block the road due to the prevailing security situation in the country.”

In another development, the Federal Government has been advised against entering into any negotiations with the Boko Haram sect with a view to ending the menace of violence it engineered, because dialogue is never an antidote to terrorism.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, gave this warning in Abuja, on Tuesday, in his brief remarks at the opening ceremony of the 2012 second seminar on national security with the theme: “Nation Building and National Orientation, Imperatives for National Security,” organised by the Alumni Association of the National Defence College (AANDEC), in collaboration with the National Defence College (NDC).

He said that since the emergence of the sect, there had been incessant threat to the peace, unity and stability of the country coupled with the seemingly helplessness of the security agencies to arrest the menace constituted by the dreaded sect. But the army chief strongly kicked against any attempt to dialogue with the sect. He spared no word for those who justified the terrorists’ actions in the country.

According to him, “No matter and whatever the measure you put in place, we would not get the best result and fast enough unless the society as a whole rejects terrorism without any justification. Those who try to justify act of terrorism, market it, (and) fuel the terrorists. And some do only to discover later that terrorism is not a matter to be negotiated and win.”

In his welcome address, president of AANDEC, Rear Admiral Amos Adedeji (retd), a former commandant of the National Defence College, traced the problem in the polity to the abject neglect of the social economic matters in favour of political grandstanding of the political class, which has now become a threat to national security. He disclosed that it was the resolve of the association to address this oversight that led to the theme of the seminar.

Adedeji cited the emergence of ethnic/religious uprising, in the polity and the attendant problems and tasked the Course 20 of the institution to fashion out a solution to the menace. He accused the political elite of using divide and rule tactics to deny the ruled their inalienable rights.

According to him, “if we continue to accept this divide and rule tactics, and allow the conduct of the affairs of our
country in a way that promotes lopsidedness in the polity, the country will not progress.” 

Using the just held protest against the withdrawal of fuel subsidy, Adedeji cautioned the ruling elite against depriving the people of their social expectation, if nation building was the country’s priority.

In his own remarks, the special guest of honour, General Chris Garuba, called for a national conference where all the stakeholders would be free to air their views on the way forward to the problems confronting the country. He faulted those who believe such a conference could lead to the balkanisation of the country. According to him, a country with multi- religious and ethnic groups cannot do without periodical national conference.

General Garuba, a former commandant of the college, also called for the revision of the Constitution with a view to expunging or amending some sections that promote disunity and any other problem in the country an end just as he called for a stop to the idea of narrowing down the issue of security to purely a military affair.

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There is no harm in trial
written by Ajoku, January 25, 2012

If negotiating with a criminal or a terrorist will bring peace,why not give it a trial. Why not borrow the late President Musa Yardua formula = Let there be peace.

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BOKO HARAM
written by DGONG, January 25, 2012

IT IS AN ESTABLISHED FACT THAT THE 19 NOTHERN STATES GOVERNORS KNOWS VERY WELL ABOUT THE EXISTENCE AND ACTIVITIES OF BOKO HARAM.
THEY HAVE FUNDED BOKO HARAM AS WELL AS PROVIDED SAFE HAVEN FOR THEM TO TRAIN AND OPERATE IN THEIR VARIOUS STATES.
BOKO HARAM IS NOT A RELIGIOUS GROUP BUT A POLITICAL VANGUARD ASSEMBLED BY NOTHERN STATE GOVERNORS TO FIGHT THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
THE GOVERNORS SERVICE BOKO HARAM MONTHLY WITH AS MUCH AS 10M NAIRA.
THE PDP GOVERNORS AND SOME OF THEIR ANPP COUNTERPARTS ARE ALL INVOLVED IN THE OPERATIONS OF BOKO HARAM IN THEIR VARIOUS STATES.
THEY OPERATED SUCCESSFULLY DURING OBASANJOS REGIME BECAUSE THE GOVERNORS WERE SERVICING BOKO HARAM MONTHLY WITH THE SUM UPTO 10MNAIRA ACCORDING TO THEIR TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING,
THE LATE PRESIDENT YAR ADUA BASED ON INTELIGENCE MADE AVAILABLE TO HIM ABOUT BOKO HARAM DID NOT FIND THE GROUP FUNNY THAT HE ORDERED THE NORTHERN STATE GOVERNRS TO DESIST FROM SUCH ROMANCE WITH BOKO HARAM AND LATE PRESIDENT YAR ADUA FOUGHT BOKO HARAM TO STAND STILL AND THEY PRACTICALLY BECAME ELUSIVE UNTILL PRESIDENT YAR DUA DIED AND GOODLUCK JONATHAN CAME TO POWER AND BOKO HARAM BEING USED TO FREE MONEY BEING GIVEN TO THEM BY THE NORTHERN STATE GOVERNORS DECIDED TO RENEW THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NOTHERN STATE GOVERNORS AGAIN SINCE YARDAY HAS DIED BUT THE NOTHERN STATE GOVERNORS REFUSED SINCE THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH SUCH POLITICAL VANGUARD AND THEN PROBLEM BROKE OUT AND BOKO HARAM DECIDED TO UNLEASH TERROR IN THE NORTH SINCE THE MONTHLY FREE MONEY OF 10MNAIRA PER STATE IN THE NORTH HAS STOPPED SINCE LATE PRESENT YARDUA BROKE THEIR BACK.
IN THIS WHOLE TERROR ACTIVITIES OF BOKO HARAM PRESIDENT JONATHAN CANNOT BE BLAMED BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR SO LONG BEFORE PRESIDENT JONATHAN CAME TO POWER.
IN ALL OF THESE THE NORTHERN GOVERNORS BOTH FORMER AND PRESENTLY SERVING ARE THE CAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM.
THE WAY OUT IS COMPLETE MILITARY SOLUTION.
GET ALL THE PRESENT SERVING GOVERNORS IN ALL THE AFFECTED NOTHERN STATES TO BE QUIZED BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO PROVIDE MORE DETAILED INTELLIGENCE INTO THE OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF BOKO HARAM IN THEIR RESPECTIOVE STATES.
DECLARE A TOTAL STATE OF EMERGENCY ON THE STATES THAT BOKO HARAM IS OPERATING AND APPIONT A MILITARY ADMINISTRATOR IN THOSE STATES AND DEPLOY A COMPLETE COLLGATE FORCE COMPRISING OF THE POLICE,ARMY,AIRFORCE,NAVY,SSS ETC IN THOSE STATES.
DO NOT POST CIVILIANS AS ADMINISTRATORS OF THOSE STATES WHERE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS DECLARED.
PRESIDENT JONATHAN MUST BE VERY DECISIVE HERE.
THE BOKO HARAM ISSUE IS ONE CORE AREA THAT WILL DEFINE PRESIDENT JONATHAN PRESIDENCY.
AFTER SIX MONTHS OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT THE BOKO HARAM WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST AND THE CIVILIAN GOVERNORS WILL GO BACK TO GOVERN THEIR STATES WITHOUT FURTHER INTEFERANCE BY BOKO HARAM OR ANY OTHER EXTREMIST OR CRIMINAL GROUP AGAIN.
ALL THESE NOISE THAT BOKO HARAM WANTS SHARIA LAW THROUGHOUT THE NORTH OF NIGERIA INCLUDING A NON DEMOCRATIC STATE IN THE NORTH IS A BIG COVER UP FOR THE REAL COLOURS OF BOKO HARAM.
BOKO HARAM, IS A COMPLETE POLITICAL TUGGERY
GROUP THAT IS SERVING THE INTEREST OF THE NOTHERN GOVERNORS THAT USE BOKO HARAM TO FIGHT THE OPPONENTS OF THOSE GOVERNORS.
BOKO HARAM IS NOT ANY ISLAMIST SECT.
THEREFORE THEY SHOULD BE TREATED AS HARD CORE CRIMINALS.
IT IS VERY INSTRUCTIVE THAT PRESIDENT JONATHAN MUST DEMONSTRATE HERE THAT HE IS THE REAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF.HEAVENS WILL NOT FALL IF HE
EXERCISES THAT FULL POWERS BESTOWED ON HIM
BY THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE AS THE COMANDER IN CHIEF
BY ERADICATING BOKO HARAM.

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written by Olusiji, January 25, 2012

We are all feeling the heat of insecurity being generated by the recent terrorist attacks courtesy of boko haram sect. Everyone must be conscious of whatever goes on in the immediate environment. It is pertinent to say that the issue of state police must be positively revisited. From my sincere rumination and rationalization, we would gain much more if states are constitutionally empowered to establish their own police under acceptable practices. Verily ,verily if every state is alert to security threats ahead of terrorist attacks, life will be more pleasing to live. Let us have state police!

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