Northeast Govs Want Mercenaries To Fight Boko Haram

Northeast governors on Tuesday backed the call by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum for the recruitment of mercenaries to join the Nigerian armed forces in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram in the Northeast.

Governor Ishaku Darius spoke on behalf of the governors when they paid a condolence visit on Zulum in Maiduguri.

Other governors present were Governors of Adamawa, Ahmadu Fitiri, Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed and Gombe State, Mohammed Inuwa Yahaya on sympathy visit to Borno people.

The visit was in the wake of boko haram’s beheading of over 40 farmers from Zabarmari community who were attacked last Saturday at a village in Mafa local government area of Borno.

“Our dear brother, we are here to condole you over the killing of farmers by Boko Haram insurgents. We are indeed saddened and traumatized. I will key into your request, which you said that the federal government should invite some mercenaries to come and help us out of this problem, because what you can’t do, what you can’t solve, I think we should invite who can solve it for us.

“We cannot continuously be mourning, there has to be a time to stop the mourning. All of us in the North East Governors Forum, we are pleading with the federal government to find a solution to the issue of Boko Haram because if we neglect it, it will become even worst, Darius said.

Governor Zulum expressed appreciation to the delegation for their visit to condole with government and people of Borno State.

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