‘FG Should Implement Kabiru Turaki Report On Boko Haram’

President Goodluck Jonathan should urgently begin the implementation of the report of the panel that was set up to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect if the federal government is not paying lip service to the quest for peace in the North East.

Vice-president Namadi Sambo recently in Lagos said a committee had been set up to proceed with the implementation of the recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Conflict Resolution of Security Challenges in the North.

However, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), under the aegis of Governance Watch Initiative, urged the government to implement the recommendations of the panel, led by the minister of special duties, Kabiru Turaki, in order to douse the tension in the North Eastern part of the country.

Speaking through Rotimi Ogunwuyi, its national coordinator, the group asked President Jonathan to borrow a leaf from his predecessor whose intervention in the militancy agitation in the Niger Delta region led to the restoration of peace in the area. The NGO argued that the military option cannot bring the desired solution to the quest for peace.

It called on the government to “pursue and align military with political (negotiated) solutions: Boko Haram is unlikely to be defeated militarily. Most insurgencies all over the world are ended through some form of negotiation. President Jonathan’s government must follow the humility of President Yar’Adua (over the MEND insurgency in the Niger Delta) by de-ethnicising and de-politicising the response to Boko Haram and actively exploring genuine negotiated solution”.

- Leadership

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