THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has called on President
Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more soldiers and other security
operatives in the troubled North-East ravaged by Boko Haram
insurgents rather than keep them for the 2015 general elections.
Buhari, who made this call during a meeting with stakeholders
of Ogoni ethnic nationality in the Tai Local Government Area of
Rivers State on Thursday, also said that, if voted into power, his
administration would implement the report of the United Nations
Environment Programme on the clean-up of Ogoniland.
He argued that the Boko Haram onslaught would have been a
thing of the past if the Federal Government had moved the
number of soldiers, police and operatives of the State Security
Service deployed during elections to Borno and Yobe states as
well as the other areas affected by insurgency.
He said, “I have made this comment before and the Federal
Government refused to react to it; the number of soldiers,
policemen and officers of the State Security Services they
deploy during elections, if they had deployed them to Borno and
Yobe states to fight Boko Haram, by now, Boko Haram would
have been history.
“Boko Haram is not a religious group; Boko Haram is not an
ethnic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist group. They attack
people in schools, they attack people in Churches, they attack
people in Mosques, they attack people in markets, and they
shout Allahu Akbah ! No religion rejoices over the blood of
innocent people.”
The former Head of State promised that he would put an end to
the pollution in Ogoniland if elected as the President of the
country during the February 14 election.
Buhari reiterated his promise to fight terrorism, corruption and
other forms of crimes, if elected President.
Earlier, the Director-General of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign
Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had asked President
Jonathan to explain to Nigerians and the world why he had
refused to implement the UNEP report on the clean-up of
Ogoniland.
Amaechi said the President’s hatred for the people of Ogoni
could be responsible for his inability to implement the UNEP
report since the funds that would be used to clean up Ogoniland
would come from Shell Petroleum Company.
“Let President Goodluck Jonathan tell us why he has not
allowed the implementation of the UNEP report. He has no
reason. The money to be spent in the implementation of the
report is not his; the money belongs to Shell,” he said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/deploy-soldiers-against-bharam-not-for-elections-buhari/