George W. Bush was given the opportunity to criticize Obama on Islamic State and Iraq. Here's how he handled it.

Posted by Unknown On Saturday, October 4, 2014 0 comments
Former President George W. Bush declined to criticize President Obama’s handling of Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State, the terrorist group that has captured large swaths of land in the Middle East, opting instead to respect the difficulties associated with the office.
“The president has to make the choices he thinks are important,” Bush said during a Fox News interview that aired Thursday. “I’m not going to second guess our president. I understand how tough the job is. To have a former president bloviating and second-guessing is, I don’t think, good for the presidency or the country.”
But that’s not to say that Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade didn’t try to coax an “I told you so” moment from Bush, who has warned in the past that withdrawing from Iraq without leaving some U.S. troops to ensure a smooth transition could end in disaster.
“I tell people all the time — off the record, by the way — that [former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s] relatives were enslaved in the greatest democracy ever for 100 years,” he added. “Democracy takes time to take hold. Yet there is an impatience with that process. Americans have got to understand that the lesson of [the September 2001 terrorist attacks] is still important today as it was right after 9/11, and that is the human condition elsewhere matters to our national security.”
The former president also noted the fact that the Islamic State has been able to capture much of Iraq, requiring a response from the U.S., shows the country has a long way to go in establishing peace for its people.
"The Iraqi people obviously are going to have to make a decision as to whether or not they want to live in peace," Bush said. "They're not ready to do it on their own, and that's the lesson we've learned recently."
The president was also asked how he knew that Iraq would fall to pieces if the U.S. withdrew without leaving behind a contingency to ensure a peaceful transition. He answered: "I know the nature of the enemy."
"Anybody who kills 3,000 innocents and beheads people because of their religion or because of their point of view is dangerous," he said.
Culled: Washington Examiner
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FG Set To Ban Hides And Skin “Ponmo”

Posted by Unknown On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1 comments

Federal Government may have concluded plans to ban sale and widespread consumption of hides and skins (PONMO) which is a delicacy to most Nigerians.

This indication emerged Tuesday when the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina called for competent regulations that would check the consumption and sale of the product.

He said this at the 3rd joint anniversary of Animal Science Association of Nigeria (ASAN) and Nigeria Institute of Animal Science held at the University of Ibadan.

If this is achieved, he noted that livestock farmers would stand good chances of making high dollar return if the hides and skins are tanned into leather.

The minister who was represented at the occasion by the Director, Animal Production and Husbandry in the Ministry, Dr. Ademola Raji,said, ”I also commend NIAS for its advocacy and public enlightenment programs on Radio and Television that promote value addition in Livestock, as against sale and consumption of primary products alone, particularly with the issue of curtailing the widespread consumption of hides and skins as PONMON which ought to be tanned into leather for a very high dollar return to the farmer and Tanneries. I expect that competent regulations acceptable by all stakeholders will be developed so as to give credibility that our set standards for food safety are being implemented which will boost value addition.”

The theme of the programme was entitled, “Value Addition in the Nigerian Livestock Industry: A strategy for Economic Growth and Stakeholders Empowerment”.

The minister stressed that FG would continue to drive its Agricultural Transformation Agenda with increased vigour in all its ramifications, pleading for continuous support and cooperation of all stakeholders in the livestock sector to deliver the benefits.

He said,”I am confident that the satisfactory production levels achieved in the poultry and swine segments will soon stretch to reach other commodities such as beef, dairy, micro livestock and animal by products such as leather, bones, hides and skins.

The drive to turn Agriculture into business and not merely a way of life is now in full gear, with the use of mobile phones and e- wallet for input distribution directly to farmers, farmer’s registration with biometric identity cards and the Growth Enhancement Support scheme.

We have all seen the revolution in Rice production and processing; in cassava, sorghum and cotton that have increased output per hectare, through the supply of high quality raw materials to revive industries that have hitherto closed down.”

Food production, he said, rose in 2013 by 8 million metric tonnes over 2012 figures which represents over 70% growth of the target set for 2015 by Government.

“In 2012, 264,000 hectares of dry season paddy rice cultivated in the Northern states alone yielded 1.1 million metric tonnes.” he added.

Speaking earlier, NIAS President, Professor Placid Njoku, applauded the Federal government for tackling the deadly Ebola virus disease, noting that the institute would encourage its members to undertake visionary studies aimed at producing popular bush meat in the country in ”intensive ,hygienic and Ebola disease free environment.”

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THESE ETHNO-RELIGIOUS IRREDENTISTS AND JINGOISTS; WHO DO THEY SPEAK FOR SEF? BY JAYE GASKIA. 04/092014

Posted by Unknown On Thursday, September 4, 2014 0 comments
The constant refrain we keep hearing like a broken record from this voraciously greedy treasury looting ruling elite is that they are speaking for, making demands on behalf, or agitating for the interests of this or that region, this or that geo-political zone, this or that ethnic group, this or that state, and or this or that religion!

And as the contestations in the political space deepen towards the 2015 general elections, we shall hear a lot more about this profanities and untruths from these congenital liars, about how it is the turn of their people to rule, about how it is only fair that their people should get to continue in office etc. 
But beyond the obvious platitudes and barefaced falsehoods embedded in their self-serving declarations, who do they really speak for? In whose interests have they governed all these years since independence? In whose interest really do they aspire to govern?

Let us take some examples to expose these carefully woven myths of representation. Let us begin with the North, simply because it is the region from which the most strident cry of marginalisation and unfairness has been promoted by shameless ruling elite in recent past.

How can any self-respecting, self-proclaimed leader of the North speak of injustice and unfairness concerning the fate of the teeming mass of Nigerians from the north? By October 1st 2014, the country will be celebrating 54 years of flag independence. More than 30 of those 54 years have seen persons of Northern origin at the helm of affairs of the country. Yet the North is still the poorest part of the country; yet the north is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the 10.5 million out of school children; yet it is largely because of the dire situation of Nigerian children from the north that we have both the Nomadic and Almajiri education systems, which by the way have not been adequately funded.
At the just concluded 2014 National Conference, there were those among the elites of the North who would reject modernization of the livelihood system of the nomad in the name of defending tradition and the cultural rights of their people. Yet their own children school abroad and in the most expensive private schools; and although they also own large herds of cattle, these are tended to, and escorted on foot across thousands of kilometers not by their own children, but by the less fortunate from among their people. If that way of life needed no modernization in order to improve productivity and ease the burden on the people, why are they not wandering the wilderness with the cattle? Why were they coming to Abuja for the conference and returning back home in chauffer driven state of the art vehicles as well as with flights? Shouldn’t their people, whose cultural rights they are so wont to defend also be entitled to such a life?

What about the middle belt leaders and elites? They have served in every government, and have even headed governments in the name of the North, yet they speak of the marginalisation of their people?

And yes, the south, the south-south, south-west, and the south-east! The South-South or the Niger Delta is the most marginalized part of the south; it is also the area with the most degraded environment in all of Nigeria. Yet with a Niger Delta presidency, the NDDC, the Niger Delta Ministry, and the Presidential amnesty program combined, along with state governments and state resources controlled by Niger Delta indigenes, the East-west road remains uncompleted after several decades, youth unemployment continues to rise, while environmental degradation continue to worsen with the environment witnessing crude oil spill for nearly half a decade now of more than 10,000 barrels per day.
It is true that the amnesty program and the post militancy period have seen the emergence of billionaires from among erstwhile militant generals and commanders, from among sponsors and protectors of the lucrative crude oil theft criminal business, and from among politicians cohering around Aso Rock and the various government houses in the Niger Delta; yet the misery of ordinary citizens have worsened. As for the amnesty program itself, it has turned out into an unsustainable bribing of 33,000 youths out of a very active, restive and desperately poor and alienated population of more than 2 million unemployed and unemployable youths in the Niger Delta. 

If these leaders had indeed the interest of the Niger delta citizens at heart, why has no single inch of the Niger delta environment been cleaned up? Why is it that livelihood support systems and mechanisms are not proliferating across the Niger Delta? Why are these so-called leaders ‘chopping alone’. Acquiring numerous properties in Abuja and across the country to the detriment of the poor Niger Deltans?

Is it just a mere coincidence therefore that the Richest Nigerian and African is from the same northern part of the country with the highest poverty rate? Or is it just a further coincidence that the richest black woman is from the same south west where the bulk of women traders are struggling and languishing in poverty?

These elites do not represent us even when they make demands in our name. The only interests they represent as can be seen are their own private selfish interests. And in order to get their hands on the pie of national wealth, in order to have access to loot our collective treasury, they invoke our pains, and dramatise our marginalisation, a condition of existence which they have been quite complicit in imposing on us.

After all at least since 1999, and at every other time except perhaps under military rule, there has been no state or local government in Nigeria governed by non-indigenes; there has been no state that has not sat over and overseen the disbursement of resources totaling more than N1tn each since 1999. So what has happened to these budgetary and equally humongous extra-budgetary spendings? Where have the monies gone?

As the 2015 general elections approach therefore, and well beyond that general election, as these politrickians and treasury looters approach us seeking our votes and support, wiping up ethnic, religious and other sentiments; it is important that we understand that they are responsible for our present conditions; that what they accuse others of doing to us, they have willingly participated in ensuring that it happens. We should understand they are coming to us only because they need us as bargaining chips, and we should therefore be very vigilant and alert.

The most significant lesson taught by our collective history is that these ruling class is incapable of transforming our conditions of existence positively, that it is incapable of seeing beyond its greed, and that our fate ultimately lies in our own hands. 

We can take our destiny back from them in the short term by ensuring that we properly scrutinize the parties and their candidates, voting only for those whose scale and scope of greed and deceit will not incinerate us. In the medium to long term however, our collective task is to build a powerful, popular, and nationwide mass political movement capable of successfully challenging these ruinous light fingered elite for power.

In the medium term such a movement can become an effective opposition in the period between the 2015 and 2019 general elections; in the long term, such a movement can effectively and successfully challenge the thieving ruling class for power in 2019, or be in a position to lead to victory such other popular outbursts of the masses that may occur as we saw during the January Uprising of 2012.

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JAYE GASKIA IS NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF PROTEST TO POWER MOVEMENT & CO-CONVENER OF SAY NO CAMPAIGN
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APPLICATION FOR SCHOLARSHIP

Posted by Unknown On Thursday, May 1, 2014 0 comments

  • “If you want peace, prepare for war”, so says a time honoured dictum. The import of this dictum cannot be lost on us as a nation especially with the realities of recent events around us.
  • Down south, just last year (2012) a large portion of that part of the country mostly the coastal cities were submerged as rivers burst their banks after incessant rainfalls, resulting in the loss of lives and properties worth billions of naira. For weeks, displaced families relied on relief materials for their survival in hastily erected refugee camps where they took shelters. Critical link roads to city centres were cut off by the ravaging floods with catastrophic social and economic consequences.
  • Up north, the growing trends of desertification has not only destroyed large portions of arable lands and deprived many farmers of their source of livelihoods but has also forced more nomadic herdsmen down into the hinterlands in search of pastures for their livestock. These migration trajectories often bring the herdsmen in direct conflict with farmers whose crops fall unto the paths of these grazing animals. The inherent conflictual tendencies have been economically costly as both crops and animals are destroyed in the ensuing cross fire. This has given rise to tension with the security of lives and properties gravely undermined in a self perpetuating circle of killings and counter killings among the contending forces.
  • These incidences of desertification in the north and flooding in the south have a common denominator- climate change. Over the years, there has been growing recurrence of disasters induced by climatic changes across the world. These disasters have claimed large numbers of lives and destroyed properties as evidenced by the recent typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Philippines and the not too distant Hurricane Catherina in the US. While Nigeria as a nation has not experienced disasters of such magnitudes, it has however not been immune to the turbulence of horrendous adverse climatic changes finding expressions in droughts, flooding, off season rains, dry spell and rising temperatures, all of which have combined to alter the growing season of a nation largely dependent on rain fed agriculture. We have also seen lakes drying up in arid and semi arid lands resulting in limited water supplies for use not only in agriculture but hydro power generation.
  • Faced with these challenges and as concerned Nigerians, it is imperative for us to imbibe a sound understanding of the monumental threats that climatic changes pose to us and so strive to go beyond the ad hoc coping mechanism typical of governments’ reactionary approaches over the years. We urgently need to tow the path of a comprehensive environmental planning/management strategy as a more realistic means of curbing dangers posed by climate change. It was against this backdrop that I applied for admission to pursue an MA Programme: Environmental Security and Peace, specialization in Climate Change and Security at the United Nations mandated University of Peace in Costa Rica.
  • This MA Programme among other things helps to explore conflict, insecurity and collaboration in relation to scarcity, poor quality, and variability of resources. During the course, an understanding of the complex and interconnected challenges to peace will be developed along with an understanding of the need for multi-faceted approaches to meeting these challenges. Students will also engage critically with theories of conflict, and will develop their understanding of the theoretical resources available in the area of conflict studies. Students are expected to examine disputes and conflict over access to fresh water resources and rivers, including dam construction. Throughout the course, mechanisms and instruments will be introduced to assist the resolution and prevention of water-related conflict and insecurity including: international law; institutional arrangements; governance and policy reform; and involvement of civil society organizations. Also, we know forests play an important role in many aspects of life like mitigation of global climate change, conservation of soil and water resources, enhancement of agricultural systems, conservation of biological diversity, improvement of urban and rural living conditions, protection of natural and cultural heritage, provision of timber and other non-timber forest products, and the generation of employment. This course will look at the links between forests, forestry, and poverty with a special focus on tropical forests. Specifically, it looks at the links between poverty and deforestation, some of the possible strategies to reduce poverty through forest-based activities, and analyzes and discusses economic and policy instruments for the conservation of forests while assuring economic and social sustainability. It also analyzes the importance of forests for humans in rural populations of countries and regions in the “developing world”, different values of forests, the threats they are facing, and the challenges faced by those who try to manage them sustainably. Some of the strategies and tools to possibly reduce poverty through forests and forestry are: Payment for Environmental Services, Community Based Forestry, certification, and secure property rights.
  • From the foregoing, I have no doubt that Nigeria as a nation will benefit enormously from the wealth of the knowledge I will gather from undertaking this MA Programme: Environmental Security and Peace, specialization in Climate Change and Security. The major obstacle now standing in my quest to pursue this programme is the financial cost involved and which I have attached herewith. As an indigent student, the cost implication is way beyond my reach and so I hereby wish to solicit your assistance in order to help me realise my dreams.
  • Thanks in anticipation of your favourable response.
  • Yours faithfully,
    Asogwa

  • UPEACE
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Fulani herdsmen are no killers, they are victims — Jubril Aminu

Posted by Unknown On Saturday, April 26, 2014 0 comments

Jubril Muhammad Aminu, a professor of cardiology, was the Nigerian Ambassador to the USA between 1999 and 2003. Aminu was elected senator representing Adamawa Central senatorial district in 2003.
 Jubril Aminu
Jubril Aminu
Prior to the ambassadorial posting in 1999, he had held office as Federal Minister of Education and Federal  Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (1989 and 1992). As Petroleum Minister, he was President of the African Petroleum Producers Association (1991) and President of the OPEC Conference between 1991 and1992.
In this interview, Aminu blames the face-off between Fulani herdsmen and host communities in many parts of the country on government. He also says unless government fights Boko Haram as if in a war, insurgency in the country will not abate.  Aminu is also a delegate to the on-going National Conference.  Excerpts:
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
Can you tell me the story of Fulani herdsmen?
The Fulani story is a tragic paradox because when we talk about the Fulani as a group, people tell you about the Fulani rule in Sokoto Empire and  sub empires like the one we have in Adamawa, and they talk about all the rulers in northern Nigeria where Fulani, consequent upon the establishment of the Caliphate and other
empires headed by Fulani and all the historical problems associated with that including emirate rule, including what some people call Fulani dictators, slavery and how Fulani rule dovetailed into modern politics with old parties like the NPC, NPN. People who might not be Fulani  often like to identify themselves as Fulani because of the pedigree.
And so, the ordinary Fulani man bears all the brunt of this historical animosity when truly he was not responsible. That is one side of the Fulani people. This is the one people are talking about especially in politics. There is another one that touches on the Fulani at all levels including the nomadic Fulani.
They are all lumped and tied as one and they have to bear the cost of the unpopularity of the ruling class. The Fulani man with his cows is seen now as belonging to the ruling class which he doesn’t belong to.
And, therefore whatever, animosity there is to the ruling class automatically is transferred to this poor man, poor woman or poor clan. And we all speak same language, we all look the same. How can you say ‘this one is not my own, or these people are not my people or the people in the ruling class are not  my people?’
You cannot say that. You have this problem. Now, on the other hand, you look at the poor, ordinary Fulani with no land, who are not even settled, the nomadic Fulani. Before the restrictions, they were moving throughout West Africa. And it is the same thing you find wherever you go. They don’t have their own land.
They are not interested in farming. They are nomads, grazing and they have not got what you call their own grazing land where they will keep their cows and give them food. That doesn’t happen.
So, they have to move from place to place. The move say from Plateau to Mambilla, from Mambilla to Plateau. They move all over the place and their contacts are the farmers particularly now that their brother Fulani are not ruling. You see, there is a a disadvantage to indigenous people, the indigenous  tribe. They drive them away.
They used to have cattle routes in the days of the British in the first republic. You have cattle routes everywhere. And no farmer will come to farm on these routes. But you now find out that they pass through this route this year, next year they come to find out it is either somebody’s house or somebody’s farm.
They are not aggressive people. Are they mad? They are not. They just come back and pass where they passed, where they grazed last year. But somebody has taken it and says it is his farm, his house, his land. That is what is causing a lot of the problems that you see. And what will they do with their cows?
‘I passed through here last year and I even stayed there.  Coming back, you now say I can’t even come there. You say I have eaten your corn, I have eaten your this and that. My cows have destroyed your farm’. Now, you can see the problems.
And this is not only with the minority tribes, the Christians, in fact, in a lot of Hausa land, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, you have this problem. And for a long time, they have been trying to establish grazing reserves. They are only talking about it. They have not done anything.
If there was anything like grazing reserve, when I was heavily involved in this, that was Plateau, not even a Fulani state or province. In short, government talks about it (grazing reserve) but they have not done anything.
They have not established anything for them. And these people supply meat, milk, hides and skin, manure. But they don’t care to look after them. The only time they are looking after them is to tax them.  Gen. Gowon abolished the tax. Today, they pay tax yet they are not looked after. Nobody cared about their education until I came with nomadic education.
Fulani-herdsmen-newThis is nothing more than just primary school education to make them accessible to information. Somebody who is an illiterate is not accessible to development information, information of any kind. So, we began to educate them.
All over, people talk about nomadic education yet I don’t know what they have been able to do. But what I know is that you pass a school and they tell you it is nomadic a school. But you find children from town in them. The society is not doing anything for these people.
Is that the justification for destroying people’s farms?
‘I passed this road last year and this year you say I can’t pass’. I don’t know any other alternative. This is the cause. I didn’t say it was a justification. It is the cause of these frictions. The Fulani are not mad. They can’t go round destroying somebody’s  farm but ‘I followed this road last year, I feel like coming to follow it again because my people have been doing it for a long time’.
When they come, you drive them away, saying they are destroying your crops. And you begin to fight and kill them.
In that case, would you blame the crisis on government for not establishing reserves?
Certainly, but the state governments in particular. The state governments haven’t  done anything.
In that case, what do you suggest?
The first is education. With the support of General Ibrahim Babangida when he was in power, we started nomadic education. Thank God it is still on.
Now, the problem has escalated to killings, deaths like we could see in Benue State?
Not just now. It started a long time ago.
So, how do you react because a lot of deaths have been attributed to it?
It is the responsibility of  government especially at the state level. These are their people. They benefit from them. These people move across state boundaries in the country as a whole. You find them as far south as  Awka in Anambra State, as far as the northern fringes of Abeokuta, as far as Abakaliki. They are there because of the encroachment of the desert. They keep going down there.
Can you say they are hostile?
They are not hostile. I have told you what happens. They go round with their cattle. These are areas that they have known for decades. Their fathers, forefathers were following these routes. And they are going on their legitimate business. Somebody driving cows from Adamawa to go to the South-east.
It is a long time, I have been hearing of Aba and Abakaliki and Umuahia and Onitsha. I know these places. And people have been taking cattle there, selling them and coming back. And people know about the route between Plateau and Mambilla. So, they have been going there. Now, next year, they come and find somebody saying it is his farm.
But they are armed with weapons as they move?
Will you carry your weapons when you are going to the bush? There are robbers. There are high way men. There are wild animals. There are competitors for cattle. It doesn’t mean that because they are all Fulani, they are all brothers and friends and all that. Why won’t you carry weapons? They are not carrying weapons to rob.
They are carrying weapons for self-defence and they have been doing that for a long time. But as the sophistication of the society increases, the sophistication of their weapon increases. Before ,it was a stick.
Doesn’t that now convey an impression that the cattle rearers you knew before are not the ones you know now?
What about the Igbo I knew? Are they the same today? What about the Hausa I knew? Are they the same today? So , everybody can move but the Fulani man cannot move?
Ok. What would you say about  Benue  where a lot of allusion is being made to the Fulani herdsmen?
It is a pity. It is failure of government, failure of the elite. Government has failed to do its job. One governor was even saying he will stop eating beef. Let them stop eating beef. This is nonsense. How can you say you will stop eating beef because you are fighting  the Fulani? What rubbish is that? The state governments in particular are not doing their work. And this is how all these crises begin.
Now, let me take you away from that issue. You are a delegate to the ongoing National Conference. So far, are you satisfied with the  proceedings?
No. We are not moving at all. But I am the only who is saying this. No body is saying that. We are now in the end of our 4th week. Theoretically, we have eight weeks left. Yet this is how far we have gone. You can see we are not moving fast.
Do you believe in the conference? Do you think it will achieve positive results?
I believe in the conference because it has already been set up. You set up somebody, you pulled the citizens, particularly the elder statesmen, you have to try to do your best to make it succeed in the interest of the whole country.
What do you say about the security situation in the country at the moment?
You are just asking me anything that is worrying you, you just throw it at me. You, too tell me about the security situation in the country. (general laughter). You have asked me three or four questions, let me ask you this one. (more laughter).
Bombings have continued to go off ceaselessly. Citizens are worried and confused.
Because Nigeria has allowed a very important, powerful organization with international connection and motivation, with paradise in many countries of the world to infiltrate here. What they are looking for is a territory.
Of course, they said they have a divine cause they are pursuing. And they will not relent. To them, death means nothing. Death is martyrdom.
Are you really sure it is a divine cause?
Anyway, it is not all of them but when you start something, some others will come but i believe  that if you ask them, they will tell you they are pursuing a divine cause.
With the killings?
That is not the point. You are coming from the point of view of Western, Nigerian oriented. For somebody who has dedicated his life here on earth, it is a struggle. To those people death is a welcome relief. They will never understand what is going on.
If it is true that these people are pursuing a cause to Islamize Nigeria and they feel it is their duty; if you become a Muslim, and you a good one by their own definition, they will do everything for you. But if you are not with them, then in these areas of theirs, they will fight you. I am not saying this is what is going on.
But you are a Muslim…
(Cuts in) A devout one.
Would you buy that idea?
People have different ways of pursuing their cause, pursuing their mission. Some of them we may consider to be extremists. But they will never do. They would think they are devoting a responsibility to God.  The same thing in the olden days of  Christians who said they were fighting in crusades or whatever they called it.
You do have it. It is not unusual. Look at what Jews are doing to Arabs in Palestine. You say it is their land. How can it be your land? Two thousand, five hundred years, it is still your land. Try to understand the dimensions of religious persuasions.
Do you think there will ever be a solution to this problem of insecurity?
Of course, there will be a solution. But we have to find it.
What do you think we can do that hasn’t been done? There is state of emergency in place…?
There are many things we have not done.
Like what?
We are not pursuing it like a war. This is a very important war, a terrible enemy. But we are not pursuing it like that. You can’t go round killing your own people or allowing them to kill others. To stop them from killing others is not by killing anybody who looks like them. That’s not what you will do.
So, what do you do?
You have to put more resources, more struggle, more political solution. Political solution is always the only one that lasts.
Political solution? So, how do we go about it because the Federal Government recently called for  negotiation…
(Cuts in) How much negotiation has gone on up till now? Calling is one thing. Doing is another.
2015, the election year, is almost here. Do you see Nigeria crossing the hurdle with the insecurity situation?
We have been having elections since 1959, maybe earlier, I don’t see anything. If we have any sense, it shouldn’t be difficult for us because we have done it before. We have INEC, we have the money, we have everything. Why should election be difficult?

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