Ndume asks FG to reveal identities of BDC operators arrested for funding Boko Haram

Buy our reporter| The senator representing Borno south in the national assembly, Ali Ndume on Sunday asked the Buhari administration to reveal the identities of all the 400 bureau de change operators arrested for funding Boko haram.

Ndume who made the demand while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, recalled that the government arrested some BDC operators who were funding Boko Haram insurgents and bandits.

According to the senator who chairs the armed service commission in the upper legislative chamber, said the government must reveal the identities of those arrested while ensuring that their trials are done publicly.

Ndume said, “The presidency said recently that Nigerians would be shocked if it revealed the identities of those who are sponsoring the Boko Haram insurgents.”

“Can you imagine that 400 Bureau De Change operators are the people funding the Boko Haram?

“When the BDC operators are arrested now, what will the government do with them. The presidency is already saying their case is confidential. What is confidential about it?

“The presidency should expose the identities of all the BDC operators so far arrested and carry out their trial in public.

“If any of them is innocent, he should be allowed to go while those found guilty must be made to face the music.”

Ndume who referenced his own trial over allegation of funding the terror group reiterated the importance of public trials for those involved, no matter how highly placed.

“When I was wrongly accused, I was tried publicly and I was vindicated. The trial lasted six years in an open court. If there is any criminal act linked to anybody. No matter how highly placed, let the evidence be placed before the public, there should be no secret trial.”

“Nowadays, criminals are arrested and paraded without further action. Nobody knows what happens to the people who killed 11 soldiers in Benue state recently?

“What happened to those who beheaded policemen in Cross River state?

“If everyone is doing what he is supposed to do as defined by our constitution and laws, we would not have these problems. Citizens should expose suspicious movements,” he said.