Nigeria’s Vice President, Namadi Sambo, has exonerated the Federal Government on the allegations that “the government is behind the Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria”.
During a visit to the victims of Friday’s mosque bombing in Kano, Mr Sambo said said that the Federal Government was doing its best in bringing the situation under the control.
Mr Sambo accompanied by the chairman Presidential Committee on the Dialogue with Insurgents, Mr Tanimu Turaki, was received by the state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on Monday.
The Vice President condemned the attack and called on residents to continue to co-operate with security agencies in the fight against insurgency and to shun all acts of rumour capable of indicting the Federal Government.
Mr Sambo’s visit came days after the emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, visited the victims of the attack receiving treatment at a hospital.
He had directed Kano residents to embarked on a three-day special prayers and fasting beginning from Friday and also urged the Federal Government to embark on critical investigation that would unveil the culprit for the attack.
At the National Orthopaedic Hospital, medical consumables worth 10 million Naira were distributed to the hospitals across the state under the sharing formula of 60% for state owned hospital and 40% for the federal medical institutions.
Kano is still in mourning mood. People are still scared, with their emotion deeply divided as to whether the war was against Western education or against Islam.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Boko Haram sect that has carried out similar attacks mostly in the north-east say they want an Islamic state and an end to western education in the region.
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