Former Military Head of State and leader of Congress for Progressive Change, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has blamed the lingering  insecurity  in the country on the poor handling of the situation by the Federal Government.

Specifically, Buhari blamed President Goodluck Jonathan administration for the poor handling of the insurgency that had taken more lives and properties than necessary in Nigeria.

He said the problem of insecurity was not peculiar to the North alone, adding that there was no difference between the Boko Haram sect in the North and the militants in the South-South.

The CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections spoke on the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, when he visited its headquarters  in London on Monday.

He said, "The problem of terrorism is not confined to the North alone. Insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government.

"The world is very much concerned about two things -- the issue of security and economic wellbeing of a nation. Security is number one. A nation can only be economically viable if there is security. But how did all these crises start? How did the crises begin and assume this dimension?"

Establishing a relationship between kidnapping and bombing, Buhari said, "Up until now, every day, they abduct people and receive ransoms. How was the problem reduced? How did it start? What method was employed to convince them to mellow down?

"Similarly what we  should look at is, how did the  Boko Haram start? We   know all  these. Security is the responsibility of the government.

"It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to know how this thing started and how to go about it. First  and foremost, security is the responsibility of the government; they should know how this thing came about."



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But big difference in how boko is handled

JTF = Hammer

Am still waiting for the next batch of aboki's nama delivered in trucks to the south. We would be munching in delight.

If GMB really said that ......then he must really dumb to even think that Militancy is the same as Terrorism.

Wait, they want to confess

Buhari don fall my hand! No one in his right senses should compare Boko Haram to Niger Delta Militancy. NEVER!

ND militants at least can point to a grievance.

How many people with all the bombing can really tell me what BH's cause is?

and someone wants me to vote this bloke as my president.

This man is high on something. There is no way a sane man can compare N/D militants and the boko haram. While the former were agitating for reform in the region owing to the level of degredation that oil exploration plunged into,the later wants d islamization of the country. While the former bombed pipelines to court attention, the later is busy killing innocent nigerians for no just cause.
If Buhari wants amnesty for BH, he should come out and say it clearly, no hide and seek. We must stop politicising our security

This is the man wants to be president! Thank God my family voted for Gej!! The devil we know is better than the angel we dont know.

Rebellion grows from the outskirts of responsibility. Terrorism, militancy, kidnapping and other menace bedevilling the country can all be attributed to failure of the state.

Buhari never fail to disappoint, why would anyone be surprise...

By 2015 u will cry again, sheer President na ur birthright? Useless old aboki reasoning wit a cow brain.

Really don't know why nigeria politicians play politics with every serious Issue that needs urgent attention. Instead of him cominq out with a proactive measure to curb out the menace of Bokoharam, he's there shifting blames on the federal government. It's really sad to hear him speak in such a manner. Don't even think he's even better than the ND militant and the bokoharam all put together.


*SMH for dis helpless country walahi*

berem: Buhari don fall my hand! No one in his right senses should compare Boko Haram to Niger Delta Militancy. NEVER!

Eeeeyaaa, sis Berem, have u heard what your sugardaddy said? Anywayn he didn't disappoint me.

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Am a big fan of Buhari, but the man has lost it all

Blesyn014: Really don't know why nigeria politicians play politics with every serious Issue that needs urgent attention. Instead of him cominq out with a proactive measure to curb out the menace of Bokoharam, he's there shifting blames on the federal government. It's really sad to hear him speak in such a manner. Don't even think he's even better than the ND militant and the bokoharam all put together.


*SMH for dis helpless country walahi*

On a serious note, who should be blamed for Boko haram insurgence if not the Federal Government? The northern elites have asked for Amnesty which the FG Is still adamant to grant. So who should be blamed then? If your president had said Boko haram members are in his government, on the other hand he said they are ghosts, who is the federal government fooling? there is actually something about this hullabaloo we Nigerians don't know yet.

slimghost:

Eeeeyaaa, sis Berem, have u heard what your sugardaddy said? Anywayn he didn't disappoint me.

....and he still remains my sugar daddy! oya go jump fence.

berem: On a serious note, who should be blamed for Boko haram insurgence if not the Federal Government? The northern elites have asked for Amnesty which the FG Is still adamant to grant. So who should be blamed then? If your president had said Boko haram members are in his government, on the other hand he said they are ghosts, who is the federal government fooling? there is actually something about this hullabaloo we Nigerians don't know yet.

Stop talking nonsense! Who should Federal Government grant amnesty to? In the days of Niger Delta militancy, we knew Asari Dokubo, we knew Tompolo, we knew Boyloaf, Okah and the rest of them.

How can a sane human being compare Boko Haram to MEND? Can you name 3 Boko haram leaders?

berem: On a serious note, who should be blamed for Boko haram insurgence if not the Federal Government? The northern elites have asked for Amnesty which the FG Is still adamant to grant. So who should be blamed then? If your president had said Boko haram members are in his government, on the other hand he said they are ghosts, who is the federal government fooling? there is actually something about this hullabaloo we Nigerians don't know yet.

to give amnesty first find out what their grieviances are.what is the grieviance of bh?to islamize the whole nigeria abi?

GMB is very funny oooo. Are u sure its not april fool u dey give??

Very ridiculous. I listened to the interview and the man made no sense at all.

Simple question that was put to him about the solutions he is profering to the Bokoharam menance? and all you hear was "Blame Jonathan" "Security is the responsibily of government" "Blame FG" . . . blah blah. He was just beating about the bush and you can hardly figure out what he was talking about. Even the accent was so bad and you would wonder if he was from the same northern Nigeria as Sanusi and El-Rufai (eventhough I'm not a fan of El-Rufai)

Me too don't see difference between N/D Militant and Boko Haram...
GEJ and Co over to U...

One would have expected that with the clout that names like Gen Buhari, Nasir El-Rufai, IBB, AbdulSalam Abubakar, Adamu Ciroma, Tanko Yakassai, Lawan Kaita, Nuhu Ribdu, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi & other Leaders from Northern Nigeria control there, they would have by now been able to use the cult-like follower-ship they enjoy to open communication channels with Boko Haram, Ansaru and other militant groups in that region towards having these group enter into direct peace talks with the Federal Government of Nigeria just as names like Alamieyeseigha, ­ J.P. Clark, etc did with the Niger Delta crises that eventually led to the "Niger Delta Amnesty Programme" and of course brokered under a President from Northern Nigeria.

So why can't these Northern Leaders reciprocate this gesture by brokering possible peace in the North under the leadership of a President from the South-south?

Why did Gen Buhari quickly wash his hands off the possibility of representing the country in talks with Boko Haram?

How come these leaders from the North only seem eager to be "Leaders" when:

1. seeking electoral positions;

2. seeking for the Presidency to be returned to them;

3. they want to threaten that "the country would become ungovernable if they don't achieve the above but shy away from the basic responsibility of having their people live in peace and be saved from imminent extinction?

And please don’t tell me – “but they are not the President and Chief Security Officer of the country” because Alamieyeseigha and J.P Clark, and others were also not Presidents as well when they brokered the Niger Delta Peace talks.

berem: Buhari don fall my hand! No one in his right senses should compare Boko Haram to Niger Delta Militancy. NEVER!

Maybe he is telling the truth since Northerners owe majority of Oil Well in ND, all the way from Desert North.

asha 80: to give amnesty first find out what their grieviances are.what is the grieviance of bh?to islamize the whole nigeria abi?

...and how many categories of boko haram exist before you know their grievances? will amnesty be granted to the Islamic extremists Boko haram leaving PDP led boko haram behind? which of them deserves to be given Amnesty? Till the government agrees that Boko haram members are not ghosts,then they ain't ready to fight the insurgences.

Buhari is so going to be thoroughly sodomiized and humiliated in the coming elections when it gets to the South, that's for sure.

Yesterday was fools' day! Many bright people had to tap into their depth of creativity to come up with a fool's day prank.

But none in their wildest imagination can come up with what real fools do effortlessly for a living. Suffice to say, only the very king of fools himself, forged in the bowels of ignorance, will equate ND millitants' agitation for fair share of their resources and an end to environmental degradation, with the evil that is Northern Nigerian Islamic terrorism, whose quest for innocent blood is insatiatble. Only a fool's king in the mould of MumuNmadu Buhari can disgrace himself that way to sound intelligent.

Let him continue in his foolishness until it catches up with him.

When people like buhari utter this sort of statement,it makes me feel if he is anyway better than my little niece's of 1year old.how can a former nigerian leader and an assume role model to some people will mae this sort of statement?N/D militant had a genuine point which was negilgence.they never went about burning either mosque or churches.they never went about killing hausas in the N/D rejoin.the had renowned leaders and agitators who were always ready to negogiate for them.please,who are the leaders of boko haram?there is something buhari knows that we don't know.he should come out and clarify this issues .

[quote author=PointB]Yesterday was a fools' day! Many bright people had to tap into their depth of creativity to come up with a fool's day prank.

U make me cry in buhari tears anticipating losing election in 2012.the man real made the april fool day highly effective

tawa89: If GMB really said that ......then he must really dumb to even think that Militancy is the same as Terrorism.

The problem with most of you is that you are products of a failed educational system and have also failed to improve yourselves.

Militant is usually used to describe a person engaged in aggressive verbal or physical combat (e.g. a terrorist or insurgent).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant


Buhari is talking about the underlying factor that motivates both terrorism and miltancy in Nigeria.they are product of a failed government and failed economy.

Well some people try to justify militancy simply because they don't attack fellow Nigerians but these same groups attack,kidnap, kill foreigners and sabotage government installations .Don't they cause havoc one way or the other ? Hamas used to be a militant group but when it couldn't get what it wanted,it started attacking Israel.

Before amnesty was granted,Rivers state was almost grounded by the activities of militant groups who launched attacks,kidnap and killed people at will.The context of militancy and terrorism encompass an ideology which involved a group of persons agitating for control of a part of the nation involving arms struggle solely to OVERTHROW the central government by instigating widespread acts of violence among the populace.

Surprisingly,the Niger delta militants have better weaponry and more sophisticated than boko haram yet we assumed that they were the lesser of two evils simply because they are killing foreigners and sabotaging Nigeria economy.

Buhari can never learn a new dance at this his age. He has been like this since his days in the military.

If the Oil in Niger Delta was in the Northern Nigeria, it will be used as a weapon against the South while at it, they will be calling it Islamic/Arab Oil

The mentality of an average Northerner on display as pertaining to our common heritage "One Niageria = Oil"

Ngwakwe: The mentality of an average Northerner on display

Y'all are just driven by your hatred for the northerners and we know that and the US government knows better else Buhari would have been tagged a terrorist,boko haram blacklisted as a terrorist organization and Nigeria,a terror state.

So stop tripping and get real dummy !