FORMER Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has urged the Federal Government to dialogue with the Boko Haram
sect, warning that the insecurity posed to lives and property in the country could lead to the disintegration of the nation along religious and ethnic groups.
He noted that the use of “brute force” by both the policemen and soldiers, under the Joint Task Force (JTF) might not end the serial killings and bombings in the North that had claimed over 955 lives, since the sect’s insurgency started in 2009.
Babangida spoke on a special Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Dialogue, he said, has become inevitable, as the demands of the sect have become “very complex.”
“Nigeria and its various ethnic and religious groups, cannot afford a second civil war. The continued threats of the sect on the cities and towns of the North and the loss lives and property could only be prevented through dialogue and the Federal
Government’s adoption of the carrot-and-stick approach.”
The dialogue, according to Babangida, has to be immediate in order to improve the security of lives and property in the country.
On the identity and availability of the sect members for dialogue, Babangida said:
“These people that have taken to arms and bombs to actualise their goals or objectives are not ghosts, but human beings like us that must lay down arms and threats for negotiations with the Federal Government.”
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Maradona of Nigeria, God will soon catch you, you said that Government should dialogue with Boko haram? will you as a military man do that? you that because of greediness crash a plan. tell your boko haram messenger to stop their killing, dont think that your children will escape it. is that how elder state man behave? GOD WILL JUDGE YOUR EVILS
ReplyDeleteBabangidastic,Maradona of all.Nobody will dialogue with Boko-Haram & u their sponsor,arrows of God will soon land on you all.If Nigeria breaks because of this,FINE & WELL.May be,dat's what God wants.Sir,you know Boko-Haram,they are your babies,go & tell them to soft peddar or they should go to hell.Nobody will dialogue with murderers!
ReplyDeleteIBB u don try,like u were told by our former president that u are nothing but a fool.
ReplyDeleteA fool @ 70yrs is a fool forever.
continue ur time is very close,God will soon disgrace u to the world.
hehe!!! negotiation for what??? i believe a fool at forty is a fool forever..if IBB is a fool at 70 by calling for negotiation with boko haram, that means he is a fool in his generation and when he DIE THIS YEAR, sure in the 3rd quarter of his next world he will still be foolish...so no hope from him...we knew what he left for us...we can afford another civil war if it is what will clean this generation of vipers in governace...
ReplyDeleteActually what the country needs is civil war,the masses are already suffering more than people in a warring country.IBB are you afraid?
ReplyDeleteYou better be cos you got alot to hide and lose.Evil idiot.