Bida, NIGER – The Etsu  Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has urged Boko Haram to embrace dialogue. Abubakar, who made the call on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, noted that security in Nigeria is the responsibility of all.

He spoke as Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf, former Chairman of Isa Local Government Area in Sokoto State, has also appealed to Boko Haram  to dialogue with the Federal Government over its grievances.

Abubakar said since the Federal Government had extended olive branch to the group, it should accept the offer, adding that dialogue was a panacea for peace.

The monarch noted that violence would not solve any problem and that dialogue was a reliable means of resolving contentious issues.

The Etsu Nupe said: “It is only through dialogue that they can table their grievances for the government to understand and find means of responding to their demands,” he said.

He urged Boko Haram  members to come out from their hideouts and embrace dialogue for peaceful resolution of the crisis.

He noted that their negative activities had led to death of hundreds of innocent lives and inflicted untold hardship on thousands of law-abiding Nigerians.

His royal majesty charged members of the sect to have fear of God and accept peace as a means of resolving dispute or whatever grievances they had against the government.

“They should remember that God said in the Holy book of Islam that anyone who either cause or is responsible for the death of a single life, would be punished on the day of judgment.

“Now that you are responsible for loss of lives of many innocent citizens, what would you tell God in the hereafter,” the royal father lamented.