Governor Aliyu Of Niger State Urges Northern Governors To “Unmask The Ghost Among Them”




Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has urged northern governors to identify members of Boko Haram in their states in order to create an enabling environment for the realisation of the Federal Governments proposed amnesty programme.
Governor Aliyu, who is also the Chairman, Northern States Governors Forum, said this on Monday in Minna, noting that the President’s decision to commence amnesty programme for members of the sect was a welcome development.


He was speaking at the opening of a workshop on the review and evaluation of the 2006 population and housing census, organised for the commissioners and state Directors of the Commission by the National Population Commission. He said identifying the Boko Haram members would enable the ‘‘government to have discussions with human beings not ghosts”.
His words: “I also call on the governors in the North to begin to unmask the ghost among them so that we will be talking to human beings and not ghost… Please let me use this opportunity to congratulate and commend the president Goodluck Jonathan for demonstrating an excellent leadership quality by listening to the cries and wise counsel from different quarters on the possibility of an amnesty for Boko Haram to engender peace and security in the nation.”