Reps and SSS Director urges FG and Boko Haram to embrace dialogue

It also urged government to initiate programmes that would promote the rule of law, strengthen civil institutions and address factors fuelling insecurity and violence.

It further commiserated with the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, and the families of those who lost their lives in the recent attack on the Emir's convoy.

This resolution emanated from a motion by Rep. Muhammad Galadanchi ( PDP-Kano), which was adopted without debate.

Galadanchi urged government to employ more long term approach instead of the military action currently being used.

He said that if the current approach was not reversed, the incessant insecurity would continue to pose a threat to the country's democracy.

``This present approaches obviously have had limited effect and the escalated trends of insecurity indicated that they are only short- term solutions,’’ he said.

The legislator said that security and welfare of the people were the primary purpose of government as provided in Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

He stressed that the incessant attacks, killings and kidnappings that were taking place in the country were worrisome.

Meanwhile, the Director of the State Security Service (SSS) in Borno, Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed, has advised members of the Boko Haram sect to drop their violent campaign and embrace dialogue.

Ahmed gave the advice in an interview with the Newsmen in Maiduguri on Tuesday.

He said the sect must embrace dialogue if it truly wanted to achieve its aim.

``We have an advice for the leadership of Jama'atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'a WatiWal Jihad, to consider dropping their weapons and embrace the ever available carrot option from the government,'' Ahmed said.


He explained that criminals had taken advantage of the violent nature of the sect's campaign to perpetrate their

criminality.

``The activities of the sect in Borno State and beyond have became a veritable umbrella under which other forms of criminals seek to dwell,'' Ahmed said.

He said that the sect must have a re-think if it was truly concerned about Islam. 

``They should dialogue for the sake of Islam the religion the group claims to seek to protect but which image has been badly battered by their violent campaigns.

``They should drop their weapons for the sake of our dear country Nigeria which has offered them the platform

for expressing their grievances, albeit inappropriately,'' Ahmed said.

 
He faulted the sect's agenda of trying to divide Nigeria into Muslims and Christians states, saying that the creation of the country as an entity by God was not a mistake.


``Allah the creator of heaven and earth carved this great country called Nigeria with her diversities.

 ``No man can attribute mistake to God the all knowing and all sufficient for this,'' Ahmed said.

The SSS had last week paraded two suspected fraudsters Mohammed Garba and Luka Dogo who posed as Boko Haram sect members to extort money from the public using text messages in Maiduguri