Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Monday, accused Nigerians of promoting the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the Northeast region of Nigeria. He said this at a world press conference on the activities of the Al-Mustapha Peace, Unity and Development Initiative (APUDI), held in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Al Mustapha opined that people from private and public sectors, have in one way or the other promoted insurgency.
He said: “If you look closely at our environment, I will say because of ignorance from private and public sectors, we have over the years promoted causes of insurgency, some deliberately, some out of greed, some out of selfishness, some out of ignorance.
“This is a fact but when it comes to apportioning blames, that is another thing entirely and that is what I do not do.
“When a country finds itself in our situation, where damage control measures are of the essence, at that point in time, all agencies should now look very well at their limitations in terms of their primary and secondary assignments and find ways to address the problem.
“Peace and security should not be compromised in any way by any security agency”, the military officer added.