Boko Haram was a creation of Ali Modu Sheriff – Borno AG

Mr Kaka Lawan, Borno State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice on Wednesday stated categorically that the Boko Haram terrorist group was a creation of Ali Modu Sheriff.

Lawan while speaking at the ongoing 56th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Port Harcourt claimed that the insecurity created by the factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Borno a few years ago metamorphosed into Boko Haram.

He called for the arrest and prosecution Sheriff, whose 8-year reign in the state he alleged was characterised by bad governance and impunity, Punch reports.

“Ali Modu Sheriff was a former governor of Borno State for eight years and left the state in a state of insecurity,” Lawan stated.

“The issue that happened in Borno, the insecurity that brought us to this situation we are in, was as a result of bad governance, illiteracy, lack of respect for the rule of law, impunity in the administration of Ali Modu Sheriff and the Federal Government then did not checkmate his excesses and it escalated to this level.

“Up to today, he is moving freely and nobody is talking to him. All hands must be on deck, if actually justice must be done to the hundreds of people that were killed in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“He (Sheriff) should be arrested. He should be investigated. He should be interrogated for the facts that we have just mentioned in Port Harcourt here. His records were known to everybody, even to you media men.

“The Federal Government is aware; the state government is aware; you media men are aware. They are not only facts; they are notorious facts. All and sundry are aware.

“Can he deny that fact that he was a governor between 2003 and 2011? Can he deny that Muhammed Yusuf freely operated between 2003 and 2009 and the aberration laws he passed?” Lawan queried.

Meanwhile, Sheriff, through his Special Adviser of Media, Mallam Inuwa Bwala, has dismissed the allegation by the commissioner, saying he was acting the script allegedly written by Governor Kashim Shettima.

“The commissioner is talking rubbish. He’s acting the script of his governor. Sheriff made the governor what he is today.

“The AGF’s predecessor died in circumstances not clear. What killed him and who killed him? The people are suspecting who is behind the killing. I pity him, he doesn’t know what he is talking about. He is serving in a government that created and funded Boko Haram.”