The Minister of information, Mr. Labaran Maku, yesterday said the ongoing insurgency bedeviling Northern Nigeria, particularly the northeast is highly political with some people criticizing President Goodluck Jonathan for lacking measures to curb it .
Maku who spoke on the Hausa Service of the BBC yesterday monitored in Jos said, “the Boko Haram insurgency is highly political. People have been saying here and there that Mr. President does not know how to hinder the problem of Boko Haram insurgency in the country. What these people are saying is highly political. We should not be playing politics in the whole thing``.
On whether the Jonathan administration’s acceptance of foreign assistance to rescue the abducted schoolgirls and end terrorism in Nigeria, the minister said, “accepting foreign help to rescue the kidnapped school girls does not mean that our country has failed to get back the missing girls and end terrorism in the country.”
“What makes the whole thing worst is the involvement of women. So, the Nigerian government welcomed the offer by the foreign countries because the problem involves women. Since the girls were kidnapped, we have not been able to trace their whereabouts. The intervention of USA and her allies will of course play a great role to ending terrorism in our country. Nigeria is not the only country that has faced this kind of problem. So, it is not a new thing.
Maku further called on all Nigerians irrespective of their socio-cultural affiliation to join hands together to fight against terrorism, adding that every Nigerian should know the person they stay and associate with and report any suspicious act to the appropriate authority.
People's Daily.
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