Northern Governors Tell Boko Haram To Embrace Dialogue

<p/>The Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF, has appealed to members of the Boko Haram sect to stop the incessant violence against innocent persons and embrace dialogue.

The group also assured Nigerians, especially those living in the north, that a lot was being done to guarantee peace in the area. 

The forum said dialogue is the surest way to resolve grievances and not violence. 

Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Niger, Dr Babangida Aliyu, made the call in his reaction to Saturday’s explosions which killed several persons at the heavily-populated Ngomari-Bulum kutu area of Maiduguri, Borno.

"The forum deeply regrets this utterly heinous descent to new depths of terror by the perpetrators at a time when security agencies are doing their best to put an end to it," he said.

Aliyu urged members of Boko Haram to embrace dialogue, assuring them that "the surest way to resolve grievances is through dialogue and not violence".

He then commiserated with the families of those killed or injured during the blast, and called on all security agencies to re-double their efforts in the discharge of their responsibilities.