President Buhari may negotiate with boko haram
Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on
Friday, disclosed in an interview with the BBC,
that the Federal Government has said that it is
open to negotiations with the Boko Haram sect in
order to find a lasting solution to the security
crisis in the country, if the group is willing.
In the interview, Adesina said the Federal
Government was not ruling out negotiations with
the sect if it would put an end to the activities of
the group, stating that the insurgents had attacked
so many villages and killed scores of people.
When BBC asked if the Federal Government was
considering negotiations with the insurgent group,
Adesina said:
“If they are willing, why not? You know
attempts have been made for negotiations
in the past and they didn’t work. Every
reasonable person would want to see the
end to this insurgency. So if they are
willing, why not? You can’t rule that out.”
“These were very vicious attacks. People
were killed in scores and it’s so sad,” he
said.
The President had during his inauguration speech
said he had launched a strategy to deal with the
sect by relocating the military headquarters to
Maiduguri, Borno State.
When asked if this would work, Adesina replied:
“This is going to work. There are
machineries being put in place. It’s going
to work. The recent killings by the sect
were meant to break our resolve, to
weaken it, but that will stop. It remains a
priority to him (Buhari) to deal with the
group.
“You will notice that his first two weeks of
administration were dedicated to tackling
the insurgency. He visited Chad and Niger
Republics and the following week, the
Presidents of those countries also visited
him in Abuja.
“The President of Benin Republic and the
Defence Minister of Cameroon visited him;
machinery is being put in place and once
we’re through, we will see the end of the
group. The target time for the deployment
of the multinational force is July ending;
that is in a couple of weeks.”
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