Brig Gen Buba Marwa (retd.), ex-military governor of Lagos State has said that he was credibly informed that Boko Haram insurgents threw a child into a flaming vehicle two weeks ago when it launched attacks on commuters in Auno, Borno State.
The Brig General, who disclosed this on Monday during an interview with Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, explained that the mother of the child had thrown child out the burning bus, but one of the terrorists picked the child up and threw him back into the fire.
Marwa, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse said that the gruesome act of throwing a child into the fire could only have been done by a person under intense influence of drugs.
He said,
“Last week someone in Auno near Maiduguri mentioned to me that there was a woman in one of the buses burnt.
“She threw her child out so that at least the child would survive, but the insurgents picked up the child and flung him back into the bus.
“What kind of depravity could that be unless somebody was completely out of his senses?
“So this is the root cause of most of our problems, including security, and must be tackled.”
Marwa disclosed that several raids on terrorist hideouts had shown that insurgency was striving mainly on hard drugs, hence insisted that disaster looms over Nigeria if it failed to tackle the issue of drug abuse.
The report submitted by the committee which was established in December 2018 is still under review by a second committee chaired by Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
However, Marwa stated that the second committee will be meeting this week and he anticipates that implementation should “start in another month.”
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He said,
“The drug control scourge in Nigeria, unless it is tackled, we are finished.
“Whether it is Boko Haram, banditry, kidnapping, they (hoodlums) all use drugs.”