The United States wants to help Nigeria fight the growing violence blamed on the Boko Haram sect, but the country cannot rely on military might alone, an official travelling with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
Mrs Clinton arrived on a one-day visit in Abuja yesterday, where she held a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan as well as security chiefs, offering to help fight the sect, which has waged a campaign of bombing and shooting in parts of the North for more than two years.
She arrived at the Presidential Villa at 3.57p.m., accompanied by officials of the U. S. Embassy in Nigeria and some diplomats, and was received by the Foreign Affairs Minister Olugbenga Ashiru.

Her meeting with security chiefs lasted for more than two and half hours, focusing on security matters affecting Nigeria and other African countries, officials said. Those in attendance include all the service chiefs, the National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki and the Inspector General of Police Muhammad Abubakar.
“A security strategy is not enough,” the senior U.S. official travelling with Clinton told Reuters.

Military crackdowns have had mixed results - reducing Boko Haram’s capabilities in some areas but generating anger because of their heavyhandedness.

Washington is offering to help Nigeria with things like forensics, tracking of suspects and ‘fusing’ disparate strands of police and military intelligence, the U.S. official said.

“We know all too well from our own experiences in both Iraq and Afghanistan what can happen if soldiers and police are not operating under appropriate authorities.

“We will encourage them not to use excessive force and to look at this as a ... law enforcement operation designed to catch perpetrators and bring them to justice,” he added.

The U.S. is also concerned that the violence could disrupt regional peace, the official said

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Its nice to know that the USA is interested about the peace in Nigeria, thats a nice development!!

whatever they want to do,let them do it as long as it brings lasting peace...must they tell us everything so that BH will plan against it

We need advice from Turkey, Malaysia and Singapore, the only people who can keep peace amongst Muslims.

Ki-Katanga:
We need advice from Turkey, Malaysia and Singapore, the only people who can keep peace amongst Muslims.

how did they do it? you gat any link to any story that we can read or we just google it

yanni.:


how did they do it? you gat any link to any story that we can read or we just google it

They are moderate Muslim majority countries, other than Buddhism in Malaysia, they don't have to deal with too much religious sectarianism but can be quite authoritarian. But every other Muslim country either has a lot of extremism or is a dictatorship -- I suppose we need to keep an eye on Libya, Tunisia & Egypt to see if they can buck the trend.