President of the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Ahmad Lawan on Thursday revealed that the Federal Government was prompt in tackling the dreaded Taliban before they could become a menace in Nigeria.
He stated this during the plenary on a point of personal explanation, saying that Taliban first appeared in Yobe East Senatorial District in 2005, but were promptly resisted.
Lamenting the incessant killing of Nigerians by the Boko Haram insurgents, particularly Wednesday’s attack where the insurgents reportedly operated for six hours without security agents challenging them.
Lawan said: “What is required is persistence.
“Like our colleagues said this is something we have been discussing over and over again.
“What is required of us is to persist and find the necessary solution. Around 2005 or so there was a group called Taliban they appeared in Yobe East in Senator Ibrahim Geidam district Northern part of Yobe and the Taliban was somehow dealt with.
Lawan explained that the Boko Haram group which was started by religious zealots has grown into a full-fledged industry that recruits fighters from in and outside the country.
In proffering solutions to tackling Boko Haram insurgents, he reminded the Chamber that resolutions on insecurity have been passed at various sessions.
He vowed that the government would not retreat, but take the gauntlet that will extinct the arsonists out of the system.
“Boko Haram has now metamorphosed from initially a group of religious zealots into an industry.
“It is an industry because what they do is no more religious, they are people from different faiths, from different countries they go about as Boko Haram.
“This Senate passed so many resolutions including the reports of the various Ad-hoc Committees we set up.
Earlier, Senator Abubakar Kyari had through Order 43 of Senate rules, drawn the attention of Senators to the horror where about 90 persons were killed in two Borno communities.
Kyari expressed shock that the insurgents operated for six hours without a challenge from the security agents. He urged the Senate to make decisions that would work for the people saying that insurgency has lingered more than expectations.
