We Would Not Negotiate With Terrorists...........David Mark

 Senate president David Mrak has reiterated  that the federal government would not negotiate with the insurgents for the release of the over 200 girls abducted from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.

He said the insurgents had declared war on the country, saying the government would respond likewise.

Mark said this at Ikom, Cross River State, during an empowerment programme organised by the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, for the people of the central senatorial district.

He added that government would use all resources at its disposal to bring the issue of Boko Haram to a logical end.

He said, “I take pain to say something very important. This government will not yield to blackmail. This government will not negotiate with criminals and this government will not exchange people for criminals.

“A criminal will be treated like a criminal and this government in no distant time will bring the issue of Boko Haram and insecurity in this country to a logical conclusion. We would spare no efforts at all in bringing the insecurity situation in the northern part of this country to an end.

“We would mobilise all our resources. People declare war on us, we would also declare war on them. The government was ready for peace, but obviously, the Boko Haram people and their supporters were not ready and we are going to deal with them in a manner that people deal with terrorists and insurgents.

“It is not by negotiation. If the language they will understand is the language of force, the government has got all the resources to do that.”