The President of Living Faith Church International, aka Winners' Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, at the weekend said the insecurity caused by the Boko  Harma sect is politically motivated.

Addressing reporters at the Ilorin International Airport on the way to Omu-Aran, his home town in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, the cleric urged politicians to show that they have conscience.

He noted that revelations have indicated that those behind the bombings of buildings and killing of innocent persons were allegedly sponsored by different groups.

Oyedepo said the exodus of people from the North to the South and South to the North is a bad omen for Nigeria, blaming politicians for the menace.

The popular preacher urged President Goodluck Jonathan and security agencies to identify and fish out the perpetrators and sponsors of terrorist acts.

He described the Boko Haram insurgency as an agenda of some group of Nigerians against the nation.

"The government should be more proactive in dealing with security issues and declare that nobody is above the law," he said.

Oyedepo noted that religion cannot be the reasons for the current insecurity facing the nation.

According to him, Muslims and Christians have been living in peace with one another for ages without any misunderstanding.     

A House of Representatives member, representing Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency of Kwara State, Mashood Mustapha, has said Boko Haram members should be invited to table their grievances.

Mustapha, who is the House Vice-Chairman on Petroleum (Upstream), said: "We should for once be sincere with ourselves. When you have a problem at hand, you look at the cause of the problem, not from the surface. The simplest answer is for us to dialogue to see what the problem is.

"When we had the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta, the first thing that came to mind was that they were fighting because the oil is there and because there was no development that was commensurate with what they were giving the Nigerian nation. We were all at peace with ourselves because there was a cause and we all know the cause. And it was so easy.

"But this time around, we have a serious challenge in the North. Who can tell us what their grievances are? There is a peculiar system in the North that is so easy to catch on, and I believe it will positively assist us. "In the North, we have a tradition. The traditional system is more effective in the North than in the South. The simple thing is for the government to approach the traditional institutions. The emirs and shehus know the head of each clan and family. Definitely, these people are not spirits. We must look for a way to curb it once and for all. And if we want to get rid of a tree, you don't cut it from the stem. What we are doing as a nation is cutting the tree from the stem and we say  we want to kill the tree. We must take it from the root.

"Let us sit down with these people and dialogue. Let us forget about ego. It is really affecting not only the Nigerian economy, it is also affecting the psyche of every citizen. Everybody is apprehensive. "