Former Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar, has said Boko Haram was formed by youths abandoned by politicians.
The PDP presidential candidate
stated this in a chat with The Africa Report while speaking on how he’ll
counter the sect.
“I happen to know how Boko Haram
came into being. They were offshoots of political thuggery. Politicians used
those boys in Boko Haram to win elections and then abandoned them and then
there were no jobs for them.
“It was the same thing with the
Niger Delta. In 1998, I saw it myself and I warned people.
“It’s going to be a multifaceted
approach. It will involve negotiations. It will involve military action”, he
said.
On the incessant herders/farmers
clashes and cattle-rustling, Atiku declared that grazing reserves was the
solution.
“In each province in the north,
we used to have a grazing reserve. During the season, the cattle are in the
reserves.
“When it is off-season when
farmers would have cultivated all their crops, then the cattle move out to the
areas where the farmers have cultivated, allowing the grass in the grazing
reserves to grow. These grazing reserves have been abandoned over the years.
On the fate of the leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu and former National Security
Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Atiku noted that the rule of law must be respected.
His words: “I don’t want to be
individualistic on this issue. I reject any illegal detention, any detention
that is not based on rule law and order.
“Dasuki is being detained
illegally. It is only a court that will say whether he is guilty or not.”
On calls for secession by some
South-East, Atiku hinted on “a conference to discuss reconstruction”
“I don’t think there is any part
of this country that wants to leave this country. All they want is fairness,
equity and justice”, he added.
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