Northern Governors Inaugurate Committee To Identify Boko Haram Sponsors

The Northern Governors Forum, has introduced the advisory group on the Review of Criminal Justice System with a command to recognize the supporters of the Boko Haram faction and guarantee their prosecution.Inaugurating the panel in Kaduna State on Friday, Chairman of the discussion and Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, said that the times of the Boko Haram agitators were numbered as the military have ousted them from their fortresses in the upper east.

He communicated certainty of triumph against the terrorist bunch on account of the dedication appeared by the Federal Government and the expert way the military kicked the gathering out of their fortifications.

Representative Shettima, while clarifying that the Boko Haram agitators have been destroyed enormously by troops, deplored that terrorism and other related unlawful acts in the district have kept on expanding because of the nonattendance of a compelling formally dressed lawful structure to manage culprits of such criminal acts in the area.

In this manner, among the advisory group's terms of reference is to recognize the backers of the Boko Haram radicals and think of fitting discipline against such persons and to likewise audit the current punitive code with a perspective to distinguishing its shortcomings and difficulties in the general organization of equity in the locale, among others.

As indicated by the Northern Governors, the criminal equity framework that is being utilized as a part of the area in the blink of an eye, is the one that was acquired from the pioneer experts.

The framework was obsolete and no more in similarity with the present security challenges.

The board of trustees was encouraged to guarantee that the new criminal equity framework is in similarity with the 1999 Constitution as revised, and also any Act of the National Assembly.

The Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Bala Bantex, who spoke to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, communicated idealism that the difficulties postured by frailty would be lessened to the barest least if there are powerful laws set up to manage culprits of such criminal acts.

An individual from the recently initiated advisory group and SSG of Kaduna State, Balarabe Lawal, gave the confirmation that the council would cover every one of the terms of reference given to them by the governors.

The board of trustees was given two months to finish the task.