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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Friday said he can\u2019t be responsible for the naming of those financing terror.<\/p>\n

Buratai explained that the Federal government and some of its agencies know why the names of these terrors have not been released.<\/p>\n

He disclosed this while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n

According to Buratai: \u201cWe over rely on the military and Army, everybody has its own responsibility, the government knows where the source came from; we have agencies that are responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot say I should be responsible for naming the financiers of terror.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about mentioning names, those agencies know why the names are not released.<\/p>\n

\u201cAction should be taken, these individuals are still within society Today, and they are known.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take responsibility for certain things that are strictly the Nigerian Army\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s government decision and not that of Army to rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram, the initial concept that we had was that we gave them a timeline to surrender in 2016 and if they surrender we gave them a free passage and hand them over to appropriate agencies to rehabilitate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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