Nigerian Archbishop calls for government to combat terror group

Four suspected members of the radical Islamic sect of Boko Haram have been charged with orchestrating a suicide bombing on United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital last month that killed at least 23 people.

The issue of Islamic terrorism was a topic at the second Plenary Session of the Nigerian Bishops Conference which met this week.

The president of the Conference, Archbishop Felix Alaba Job called on the government to intensify efforts to combat Boko Haram. “We in the church are saying clearly, it is not a matter of negotiating. You do not negotiate with such a group because it is not a group that is asking for any sort of social or political status. It is just a group that kills.”

He said the Church is calling for the government “to fish out the kingpins of this Boko Haram, those who support it, those who use it for their political ends. And let us root out this movement from out midst.”

Listen to the full interview with Archbishop Felix Alaba Job by Christopher Wells: