Governance Watch Initiative (GWI), a non-governmental organisation, has warned the federal government to avoid featuring any action or calculations for 2015 general elections in any policy considering ending insurgency in the country.
The group also said Boko Haram members were not faceless and asked the federal government to implement Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led committee submitted long ago.
Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, the group’s National Coordinator, Bar. Rotimi Ogunwuyi, said “it is clear that Boko Haram is no longer a Nigeria-only problem,” urging the government to solicit the operational involvement and assistance of ECOWAS and African
Union, including deployment of multinational security operative across the Sahel to track down the insurgents.
He said: “Boko Haram members are not faceless. What happened to the Kabiru led committee? When the committee said it has submitted a report to the federal government, we are just urging the federal government to implement the recommendations.”
The group told the federal government to quickly end the inter-agency rivalries between the security agencies in the country, adding that Military and Police cannot build peace. “The governments need to urgently involve local and international peace building organisations,
including NGOs, CSOs to design peace building initiative.”
“The federal government must see the governors of the front-line states as partners who are genuinely committed to ending the crisis.
Their commitment should not be doubted since they are the direct victims of the insurgency, and will be the immediate beneficiaries of peace restoration. They must, therefore, be carried along in every decision, instead of being threatened with removal and being verbally assaulted by overzealous officials.”
