nwanna89:
I am sure the current administration is doing all these. The real problem with this Boko Haram issue is internal sabotage. I think the govt realized this late, and has started dealing with the problem. Many soldiers and officers are being charged now. Honestly, none of the ideas in that post wowed me. From what my soldier friend who is in the Northeast told me, all those ideas are being implemented currently.

crixlight2:
Let's give GMB one chance and see what we happen den if he fuk up den we will throw him out.... jonathan don try reach... GMB for real

datguru:
Buhari has no plan, let's stop deceiving ourselves and allowing an illiterate deceive us .
His only plan is to call his boys ( boko haram) to order once he assumes office which will never come to pass. should buhari loose, the worst should be expected from boko boys


GEJ until someone comes with a better plan

DeCritique:



I weeeee go for the PHD graduate because he is more educated and more sound to put the nation in better state that a self acclaimed honest yet to be found certificate holder who claims to be able to end corruption while he eats from the tables of corrupt men!!

youmour:
Everything made sense until he said , " I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."


Nego whatttt we r wayyy pass that bruh,go n sleep

Alezy:
He had his chance b4, he achieved nothing. Let Gej complete his 2nd term n lets see if he can be compared to our past leaders.

youmour:
Everything made sense until he said , " I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."


Nego whatttt we r wayyy pass that bruh,go n sleep

PassingShot:


Are you saying we should vote him just to complete another term? Chissooozzz!

holatin:
They go into schools and slaughter children
both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques
and explode devices, they also go to the churches and
motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the
minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram
is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists.
Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the
support of the immediate communities for you to flush
the insurgents out of the society

I wish all nairalander can read and understand this.

buhari for president

aguiyi:
preparing for a fight is different from wining the battle.

this guy ruined our economy. he does not deserve a second chance

youmour:
Everything made sense until he said , " I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."


Nego whatttt we r wayyy pass that bruh,go n sleep

DeCritique:
Too much "I think(s)" in his statement!!


A person who plans to be the President of the most popolous black nation in the world should be sure of himself and his statements and stop thinking/thoughting all the time!

We need a leader that is sure of himself and I can't seem to find it in Buhari as I'm still helping to search for his certificate. Maybe after seeing that, I can start searching for an iota of sureness in him.

But for now, #GEJ! Till 2019!! Tag your friends!!!

holatin:
They go into schools and slaughter children
both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques
and explode devices, they also go to the churches and
motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the
minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram
is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists.
Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the
support of the immediate communities for you to flush
the insurgents out of the society

I wish all nairalander can read and understand this.

buhari for president

Seun:
Most people have no confidence in the current government's plan to solve the problem of terrorism in Nigeria. However, it's important to try to find out whether the opposition has a better plan. For this reason, I went through General Buhari's recent interview with Thisday, and extracted the concrete statements he made about his plans to secure Nigeria and fight terrorism as the president of Nigeria.

Here they are, in his own words:

1. "What would I do differently? It is to make the military much more effective in their operations. If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again."

2. "Having known how the Boko Haram developed, what I would have personally done differently would be to get the Presidents of Cameroun, Chad and Niger together to say, ‘look our borders are porous and that we are not able to effectively protect them and monitor movements of people in and out of our territory, but please make sure that you do not provide training facilities or allow people to be coming into the county.’ "(technically, this is a statement about the past, but I'll allow it since he can do it when he gets into power)

3. "I think what I can do is appeal to the patriotic sense of the military."

4. "I think the situation needs a leadership that will give the military the backing in terms of sourcing the weapons and ammunition to fight. And Nigeria, no matter how oil prices have fallen, will source enough funds to fight the insurgents."

5. "This is what could be done differently, use intelligence, find out the leaders that are responsible and deal with them."

6. "Well, since they are stronger than the government, I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."

7. "If you do not cultivate a good relationship with your neighbours, it will cost you so much in terms of security and the economy. So you have to cultivate a friendship with your neighbours and then it goes on to ECOWAS, Africa and the rest of the world. I think this is a viable policy option."

8. "First of all it is important to debunk the notion being peddled by Boko Haram that Western education is ungodly. They go into schools and slaughter children both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques and explode devices, they also go to the churches and motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists. Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the support of the immediate communities for you to flush the insurgents out of the society. I believe that this will not take a long time."

9. "Then you discuss with your neighbours to make sure that weapons are not crossing the borders and that there are [no] training facilities for terrorists."

10. "I think that soldiers and police barracks and their armories must be strengthened to ensure that they are properly secured."

11. "I think that the air force has to be made more effective by acquiring more new aircraft and establishing a base in Kano so that the distance to cover is shorter and returning to base is made easier."

12. "You know there were problems with the Boko Haram leadership, there were some people that claimed to be leaders of Boko Haram and the sect disowned them. So we have to identify the real leaders of Boko Haram before you can negotiate with them."

13. "I am insisting on intelligence, which means gathering information and making sure that it is correct and you deal with it. Without intelligence you waste too much resources and lives."

The full interview (with numerous criticisms of the current government and stories about things that happened many years ago):
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-in-quest-to-secure-nigeria/196454/

What do you think?

PassingShot:


But you don't win the battle you're not prepared for.

GMB didn't ruin our economy. If he did, he would have been confined into history as IBB.

voltron:


That is where he got it wrong - Terrorism is wrong no matter how you look at it.. when you negotiate with Terrorists, you invariably tell those who have lost their lives and loved ones that they do not matter.. you tel the terrorists that they can be forgiven and integrated back into society.. what safe-guards do you have in place to assure the innocents that it will never happen again.. there are many works of research on terrorism... Negotiation never works in the long run.

PassingShot:


Negotiation is part of instruments available to fight insurgency and it is the effective tool in some of the cases. America negotiated with Taliban at some point. We negotiated with MEND even though they killed many innocent souls.

MISSCONGENIALITY:
I can't belief Nigerians still rely on promises from politicians. They lie a lot just to get their way to the office and once they get there, they forget about all their sweet talks. Don't just exchange ur vote for promises. Vote wisely.

Kutunban:
That's not a plan. GMB is a daft an average Nigerian can draft out such plan na.

Akon419:
do you talk about negotiation? How many times has the government called them for negotiation ? You forget that boko haram once said they don't need amnesty , that they should give gov amnesty instead . Boko haram is Islamic problem, untill you realize this, you will keep on blaming yourself

firstEVA:
By the time we try Buhari for the first 4 years, your questions would have been answered. Just vote buhari. Jonathan should not be allowed back into Aso rock, he represents Bad luck for Nigerians.