The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai, on Monday said that none of the leaders of the Boko Haram sect hailed from Borno State.
Garbai said: “They cannot claim to be from here.
“The problem was brought to us from elsewhere.
“What is happening now is unfortunate.
“It is entirely new to us.”
Garbai made the statements in his palace in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, while receiving members of the Presidential Fact-finding Committee on the Abduction of close to 300 schoolgirls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
The committee paid a courtesy visit to the monarch.
Garbai described the April 14 abduction of more than 200 students of the Government Girls’ College, Chibok, Borno State as unfortunate.
The schoolgirls were abducted by the Boko Haram sect.
The Chairman of the committee, retired Brigadier General Ibrahim Sabo, said that Maiduguri was a famous centre for the trans-Saharan trade.
Sabo expressed regrets that the city and the entire Borno State had suffered severe socio-economic “dislocation” as a result of insurgency in recent years.
The chairman said that committee, which arrived in Maiduguri on Sunday, had entered a crucial phase of its assignment.
Sabo said: “We are now in the main theatre where the Chibok schoolgirls were taken away against their will.
“The whole world is mobilised against the abduction and we cannot be happy while our daughters remain in captivity.”
Sabo said that the committee had an open mind to its assignment.
He said: “We are not here with preconceived notions.
“We are here to find facts that will lead to a resolution of the current hostage-taking involving the schoolgirls.”
He said that the committee, while in Borno State, would engage a wide range of stakeholders to enable it to have a holistic understanding of the matter and advice the Federal Government accordingly.
He called for the cooperation of all concerned.
The spokesman for the committee, Kingsley Osadolor, said that the committee spent last week in the Federal Capital Territory, where it engaged in interactive sessions and consultations with a broad range of sources.
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