Former President Goodluck Jonathan, said President
Muhhamadu Buhari administration’s is prosecuting the war against the Boko Haram
insurgency with the arms his administration procured .
Insisting
that he laid a solid foundation for terrorism to be defeated, Dr Jonathan
expressed hope that very soon, the new government would defeat the insurgency.
Jonathan,
who spoke in an interview with France 24 as quoted by The Cable, said the insurgency caught the country unawares but
noted that his government laid a solid foundation for terrorism to be defeated.
His
words: “The new government is working hard and I believe they are still using
the equipment we procured. Though the budget is still being debated, no new
equipment has been bought, so even those equipment the president is using to
prosecute the war against Boko Haram are those equipment we procured….
“When
Boko Haram started in Nigeria, we had no terror experience. Yes, we had armed
robbery and other common crimes, but terrorism was different because the people
involved were not afraid to die. So, you need a different mechanism to confront
terrorism, you need superior technology to be able to stop them even before the
attack. We never had the equipment, but when we were confronted, we started
acquiring and before I left office we built reasonable capacity and I believe
with what we left behind and also with what the new government will acquire,
they will be able to prosecute this terror war to a reasonable conclusion.”
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