By Kolawole Ojebisi
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has said that the battle against Boko Haram is getting protracted because some prominent people are profiting from the activities of the insurgents.
Zulum made this allegation in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday. He hinted that these promoters of insurgency are not just in Nigeria but also in Chad adding that they’re bent on scuttling efforts to rid the country of the menace.
He said, “There are people who don’t want this insecurity to end because they will not be happy with that.”
The governor, who noted that success had been recorded in the fight against the insurgency, decried that Boko Haram members are now making “influx back to the region after being flushed out from Chad”.
He called on people to unite and support security agencies in order to address the Boko Haram menace.
The governor, however, didn’t specifically mention those profiting from the insecurity in the region.
Boko Haram insurgency, which Borno and other northeastern states have been battling for years, has claimed lives of thousands of people and displaced several others.
Although the terrorists’ activities have been decimated to some extent in recent years, the fight against Boko Haram has yet to end.
