Fake Boko Haram n Reason Why Former Chief Of Army Staff Claimed To Know The Location Of Chibok Girls

I still don’t understand why the former chief of Army staff has not being probed or summoned for questioning by the new government, maybe somebody need to mention his name, or is not yet his turn.  Just thinking out loud!

At the Geneva Press Club Nigeria ex-president Jonathan attended he was questioned on the allegation that his government negotiated with fake Boko Haram members, Dr. Jonathan said it was not true.

“People come up with all sorts of allegations. The truth of the matter was that we realised that the epicentre of the terrorists activities were in two states – Borno and Yobe, we decided to set up a committee of influential people in those two states to interact with their people to see if they can help in tackling the problem.

‘’We did not negotiate with Boko Haram. The people we negotiated with were militants in the Niger Delta and it was successful.

‘’Even the current President said recently that if they see credible members of Boko Haram, they would be willing to discuss with them. If somebody said we negotiated with fake members of Boko Haram, the person is just playing politics,” he said.

Asked to comment on the statement that his former service chief who said the chief of Army staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh knew where the Chibok girls were being held and till the end of his administration, the girls were not rescued, the former President said when he heard the comment, he was surprised, adding he invited the service chief for a chat.

He said he would someday make public what they discussed.

On why he did not contest his defeat at the poll, Jonathan said: ‘’I did not contest my defeat because I did not get into politics because of what I will gain. An African President on hearing the margin of defeat, said Jonathan must be tired. I could not destroy what I helped to build.’’

In his paper, he said one of the ways of tackling terrorism was through education.

“My policy was to fight insecurity in the immediate term using counter-insurgency stratégies and for the long term, I fought it using education as a tool.

‘’As I always believed, if we do not spend billions educating our youths today, we will spend it fighting insecurity tomorrow. And you do not have to spend on education just because of insecurity. It is the prudent thing to do.

‘’It is no coincidence that the North east epicentre of terrorism in Nigeria is also the region with the highest rate of illiteracy and the least developed part of Nigeria.