Former Minister of Internal Affairs during the military regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, Major General Mohammed Magoro (retd) has said that there was no reason the federal government should not end Boko Haram insurgency and banditry in six months.
“In 1983, during President Shehu Shagari’s time, rebels were terrorising our people on the Nigerian Islands in Lake Chad. Mr President was the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Armoured Division in Jos,” he said.
‘’At that time, he moved his headquarters to Maiduguri and dealt decisively with all those rebels, cleaned all the islands. Now,today, he is not a General Officer Commanding, he is a Commander in Chief! We do not expect anything less from him.’’
Magoro, whose speech on the matter has gone viral, also recommended that a Traditional Rulers Intelligence Consultative Forum be formed by the federal government to help in checking rising state of insecurity in the country.
He said: “ Traditional rulers hold the key to the success or failure in security administration in Nigeria .They are all at grassroots level, interact closely, daily, with the people, with traditional rulers bordering our neighboring countries. They see borders purely as artificial.
“In all our boundaries, from Benin Republic to Cameron, the people along the boundaries are one people, they speak the same language, same traditions and same customs. The traditional rulers, therefore, need to be recognised and assigned tasks in our fight against insecurity in the our nation.
“I am, therefore, suggesting the setting up of our Traditional Rulers Intelligence Consultative Forum by law.”
Continuing, he said one of the major potent security challenges facing this nation was the large number of unemployed youths all over the country.
Via Vanguard
