General Mohammadu Buhari has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to provide an aircraft to fly members of the Boko Haram Sect to Aso Rock for negotiation just like late President Umaru Yar’Adua did to the Niger Delta Militants prior to the Amnesty program.
General Buhari who also kicked against the emergency rule imposed in Borno, Yobe and Admamawa said President Goodluck Jonathan should resign from office for his inability to tackle the security challenges facing the country.
“Jonathan should vacate and give way to competent hand to govern the country”, he said.
Speaking to newsmen in his residence in Daura town yesterday, General Buhari said the issue of security is a fundamental duty of any responsible government, but Jonathan failed to protect the lives and the properties of Nigerians since he assumed power.
“When the Niger Delta militants started their activities in the South-South, they were invited by the late President Umaru Yar’adua.
An aircraft was sent to them and their leaders met with the late President in Aso Rock and discussed issues. They were given money and a training scheme was introduced for their members. But when the Boko Haram emerged in the north members of the sect were killed,” General Buhari lamented.
“And when the police failed to address the insurgency, soldiers were invited and they captured the Boko Haram leader, Muhammad Yusuf alive and handed him over to police. But Yusuf was eventually killed, his in-law too was killed and their houses were demolished”, he said.
He said the murder of the Boko Haram leader however provoked his followers and that was what led the country to its present situation. He suggested that government should adopt a new approach that will end the insurgency without affecting the lives and properties of innocent people.
“In Bama and Baga towns, military personnel were reported to have been engaged in extortion and sometimes Molesting of women. And because a soldier was killed in Baga the whole town was sacked by military. This is not the best way military should have acted when they were sent to restore law and order in a town. How can a responsible government allow its people to be killed in this way,” he asked.
He warned that the police, SSS, army, navy and Air force should know how to conduct themselves and act professionally.
“The soldiers are not expected to go and sack a town because one of them is killed. They are expected to capture the culprits for prosecution.
After all the soldiers are not meant to tackle internal crisis but when it is necessary they should act professionally.
“Whoever is sent to protect people should also protect their integrity.
When the former England’s Prime Minister, Margret Thatcher decided to hold its political meeting in Brighton the security advised her to cancel the meeting because of the IRN rebellions, but she insisted and held the meeting. The hotel she was accommodated was bombed and some of her political associates were killed but soldiers did not condone the area and kill everybody there, rather they conducted themselves professionally,”
Buhari said.
General Buhari, who condemned the imposition of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, said state of emergency was not the best way to address insurgency in the three affected states and the country in general.
“Government cannot kill all the Boko Haram members. Government should rather arrest and prosecute the Boko Haram members. They should only be killed when they said clearly they wage war against their country like what happened during the civil war. And even during civil war we that fought in the war were given a copy of code of conduct book which guided us against killing innocent people”, he said

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GMB should stop playing this do or die politics. Constructive criticism and true patriotism entail keeping the unity and project Nigeria alive void of any threat to its sovereignty.

ist commentator,

what is bad from Buhari statement that' the leader of boko haram be fly to Abuja for negotiation, was not that of AMNESTY WE ARE CLAMOUR FOR?

WOULD TILL NIGER DELTA MILLITANT BEE FLY TO ASO ROCK IN 2008?
DO YOU WANT THIS RUBBISH KILLING OF US AND OUR BUSINESS IN THE NORTH TO CONTINUE?


WHY ARE U PEOPLE ALWAYS CONFRONT BUHARI? WAS THE BUHARI FOUNDR, SPONSOR AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKO HARAM?

PLS GOOGLE THE FOUNDER AND PONSORERS AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKOHARAM AND U WILL TOLD BY USA (CIA DEPARMENT)

WAS NOT THE SAME PDP SPONSOR AND BENEFIF FROM BOKOHARA ACTIVITIES?

This option from Buhari is coming rather late.
An olive branch from GEJ was extended to them initialy which was turned down by BH.
They should learn to live with this SOE until normalcy is restored in the three states affected.

Buhari is yet to show his true ugly colours!

This is just the beginning.

Surprising how certain people, from a certain part of the country, see nothing wrong in telling obvious lies and mistruths about a certain person. Dont you guys want development? Dont you want to succeed in life? Dont you think you deserve 24/7 electricity? Dont you think on average youre supposed to be earning almost as much money as your Senators? Do you think its normal for your President to squander $30,000+ on his meals EVERYDAY while most of you live on $2/day? Do you think its ok for you to live in a messed up society, with homeless people all around while your illiterate First Lady insists that her husband gives her N4Billion OF YOUR MONEY to build a play-pen for her friends? Is it ok for your President to hand over the security of the State to Militants? Are you telling me that youre meant to suffer, just like your Fathers before you (and most likely your kids coming after you) just so some politicians can live lavishly?!?!?!

Not only is the title misleading (and a terrible lie) BECAUSE MUHAMMADU BUHARI DID PRAISE THE STATE OF EMERGENCY , but it also continues to show the destructive and evil nature of a certain group of Nigerians whose heads have been twisted by paranoia and their minds hardened by hate, wickedness and bigotry.

kamalahmed: ist commentator,

what is bad from Buhari statement that' the leader of boko haram be fly to Abuja for negotiation, was not that of AMNESTY WE ARE CLAMOUR FOR?

WOULD TILL NIGER DELTA MILLITANT BEE FLY TO ASO ROCK IN 2008?
DO YOU WANT THIS RUBBISH KILLING OF US AND OUR BUSINESS IN THE NORTH TO CONTINUE?


WHY ARE U PEOPLE ALWAYS CONFRONT BUHARI? WAS THE BUHARI FOUNDR, SPONSOR AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKO HARAM?

PLS GOOGLE THE FOUNDER AND PONSORERS AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKOHARAM AND U WILL TOLD BY USA (CIA DEPARMENT)

WAS NOT THE SAME PDP SPONSOR AND BENEFIF FROM BOKOHARA ACTIVITIES?

Is rule 21 not in effect again. I will speak ma own dialet too oooo.

kamalahmed: ist commentator,

what is bad from Buhari statement that' the leader of boko haram be fly to Abuja for negotiation, was not that of AMNESTY WE ARE CLAMOUR FOR?

WOULD TILL NIGER DELTA MILLITANT BEE FLY TO ASO ROCK IN 2008?
DO YOU WANT THIS RUBBISH KILLING OF US AND OUR BUSINESS IN THE NORTH TO CONTINUE?


WHY ARE U PEOPLE ALWAYS CONFRONT BUHARI? WAS THE BUHARI FOUNDR, SPONSOR AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKO HARAM?

PLS GOOGLE THE FOUNDER AND PONSORERS AND BENEFACTOR OF BOKOHARAM AND U WILL TOLD BY USA (CIA DEPARMENT)

WAS NOT THE SAME PDP SPONSOR AND BENEFIF FROM BOKOHARA ACTIVITIES?

gbam! northerner's ENGLISH,GRAMMER POLICE suppose 2 hand u over 2 boko.