Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, the ministerial nominee from Oyo State, was scared to comment on Boko Haram.
Nominee scared of Boko Haram, declines to comment on sect
I want to say with all sense of responsibility that I don’t want to comment much; I still have a family to take care of and I still want to live.
Senate screens ministerial nominees on October 13, 2015
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He said this during his screening on Wednesday, 21st October 2015, when Senators asked him a question bordering on the sect.
Shittu said “It will be a difficult thing for anybody who wants to continue to live to make comments in public about these faceless elements but I want to assure this Senate that everything they (Boko Haram) have been doing is not Islamic."
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“I want to say with all sense of responsibility that I don’t want to comment much; I still have a family to take care of and I still want to live.”
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