No Boko Haram sponsor, arms funds looters will go unpunished – FG

The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has reassured Nigerians that neither Boko Haram sponsors nor looters of the funds meant for arms procurement, will be allowed to go scot free.

Minister of Informational and National Orientation, Lai Mohammed, while addressing a press conference on Tuesday, said everyone found complicit will be charged and tried, but added that due process would be followed in bringing those behind the terrorists to book.

“The dilemma of government is how to redress the past wrong. What I want to assure you is that nobody, who is responsible for this situation either by sponsoring Boko Haram or stealing our resources, will go unpunished.  That I can assure you.  But we will follow due process.”

Although several Boko Haram suspects in Chad were recently executed, Mohammed said Nigeria’s legal system was different and that the authorities would not want any innocent person killed in that process.

“Our legal regime is different. I can assure you that it is not in the interest of the military to protect Boko Haram because they are the first victims of the activities of the insurgents.”

Mohammed also said that nobody in the present government is sponsoring or supporting Boko Haram terrorists in any way, stressing that “nobody in this government will hide a Boko Haram suspect.”

Speaking of the continued captivity of the abducted Chibok girls, the Minister said the military was still searching for them.

“The military is leaving no stone unturned up till now. Right now, the military is undertaking major onslaughts,” he added.

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