The President of the Senate, David Mark On Tuesday urged the Federal Government to crush the Boko Haram sect, adding that “from abductions, kidnappings and bombings, the situation has now degenerated to capturing and occupying parts of Nigeria with a clear intention to humiliate us as a sovereign nation.”
Mark said this in an address of welcome he read to his colleagues at the resumption of plenary, in Abuja where he described the brazen manner in which the terrorists hoist their flags as an assault and affront on our collective will as a nation.
“I have consistently advocated dialogue as the needed panacea to this malaise.
“Sure, dialogue must not be ruled out but this time around, with this scale of warfare, we must first demonstrate our strength, confront and defeat these terrorists and insurgents before we resort to dialogue.
“In my candid opinion, the Boko Haram sect has in no unmistakable terms declared a total war on Nigeria and Nigerians.
“Their ideology is alien to our culture. We must as a people and nation handle this situation with all the seriousness it deserves.
“As a person, I am yet to come to terms with what the Boko Haram Sect actually wants and wondered what offence the Chibok girls or any other school child, a market woman or artisan struggling to earn a living committed to warrant the sect’s barrage of attacks,” he said.
The enraged Senate President however appealed to his colleagues rise to the current challenge by extending to the executive all the support it requires to confront the challenge head-long.
“We must come out with clear, concise and unequivocal mission statement on how to win this war.
“As I have repeatedly said, we must as a matter of urgency, fish out the financiers of these terrorists and all collaborators wherever they are, and bring them to book,” he said.
