President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that insurgence has neither religious nor ethnic underpinning, saying that with adequate education, majority of Nigerians now know the truth about them.
Receiving the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karin Ahmad Khan, at the State House, Abuja, the President said with concerted public enlightenment, it had become clear to the people that Boko Haram was a perversion of religion, rather than Islamic ideology.
The President stressed that the situation was worse when his administration took over office when, but that desperate power and wealth-seekers had made it a lifestyle to cause confusion, destruction and death.
The ICC Prosecutor had said extremism was like cancer, which spreads and could also recede, noting that what Boko Haram does in collaboration with Islamic State of West African Province ISWAP, is a perversion of religion.
He said the ICC believed in complementarity, which promotes collaboration, as against confrontation, counseling Nigeria in concert with other Sahel and Lake Chad Basin countries to get the United Nations Security Council to refer the atrocities committed by the terrorist groups operating in the region to ICC, for investigation and subsequent trial.
BELLO WAKILI
