ALTHOUGH offering once again the help and assistance of the United Nations in the fight against Boko Haram,

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has asked the Federal Government to mobilise the needed forces to quell the Boko Haram terror attacks, just as he lamented that the situation in Sudan and South Sudan continues to be testy.

Speaking on Wednesday afternoon at his first press conference in the year, as he begins his second term of five years in office, the UN Secretary-General affirmed his condemnation of the Boko Haram menace as a terrorist act that the global community has to come together and fight.

In response to a question on why some of the UN statements refrain from describing the Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria as a terrorist act, Ban said “I have, on many occasions, strongly condemned these terrorist attacks by Boko Haram, including that time of the attack against the UN House last year.”

But at the press conference held in New York, the UN scribe added that “the Nigerian government should also mobilise full possible forces to address these Boko Haram terrorist attacks.”

Promising that the UN on its part “will coordinate with the concerned parties, international organisations and regional organisations,” to address the problem, he disclosed that he had already made a specific proposal on Wednesday while meeting the UN General Assembly.

That proposal which will strengthen UN capacity in the area of counter-terrorism, according to him, includes the need to have “a single coordinated counter-terrorism mechanism combining the currently existing functions.”

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