Admiral Murtala Nyako, governor of Adamawa State, has for the second time accused the Federal Government of sponsoring the Boko Haram crisis.
The first time he did so was at a security seminar in Washington, DC a month ago. This time, in a memo to the Northern Governors' Forum, Nyako said the government was responsible for the violence sweeping the North East, with its killers "embedded in our legitimate and traditional defence and security organisations," who trample upon and take people's lives, property and rights with the hope of igniting a war between Muslims and Christians in the North. "Cases of mass murder by its bloody-minded killers and cutthroats are well-known but it attributed the killings to the so-called Boko Haram."
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