Bishop of Anglican Dioceses of Asaba, Rt. Rev. Justus Mogekwu, said on Thursday that the leaders and most members of the Boko Haram sect were aliens.
Mogekwu, therefore, urged the Federal Government to strengthen security across the country’s borders to halt the importation of the killers.
The bishop, who condemned violent attacks in the Northern part of the country, described the recent killing of 24 students and two teachers of Government Secondary School Mamudo, Yobe, as horrendous, wicked, satanic and unpardonable.
He noted that of all the operative strategies of Boko Haram, the massacre of the students in Yobe was the worst and most abominable, adding, “the people kill with reckless abandon and without mercy”.
He said that no Nigerian would have the heart to massacre his own brothers, children and relatives.
“What they have done is a declaration of war and a violation of Nigeria’s territorial integrity because there is every reason to believe that those who are perpetrating this evil must have come from across the borders,’’ he said.
Mogekwu urged Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, culture or religion, to rise and condemn the attacks and killings by the sect, stating that it was not right for thousands of people from Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa states to become refugees in neighbouring countries.
The bishop described those perpetrating and sponsoring the sect as hypocrites and urged them to desist forthwith to save the country from another civil war and blamed politicians for the proliferation of arms and ammunition in the country in the hands of idle youths.
Mogekwu, however, suggested that the Federal Government should come up with stiffer penalty for anyone caught with arms, and advised government to direct the appropriate agencies to mop up arms across the country in addition to strengthening security at the borders.