Zulum Reveals Who To Blame For Boko Haram

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has blamed past administrations for not tackling the Boko Haram insurgency at the formative stage.

The governor stated this on Thursday while delivering a lecture on ‘Security and Economic Growth: Leadership in Challenging Times’ at the launch of the book, Strategic Turnaround, Story of a Government Agency, by Dakuku Peterside.

The author is the former Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

He said corruption of government officials has allowed insecurity to fester in the country, adding that the mistake Nigeria made that led to the banditry in the country was ignoring poor countries around it.

“If Nigeria had emulated some European countries and empowered their poorer neighbours, the situation would have been mitigated,” he asserted of the failure of past governments in Nigeria to tackle the Boko Haram in its early stages.

He identified strategic leadership and social re-orientation to end insecurity in the country as panacea to the crisis, saying military intervention and restructuring may not end it.

His words: “The greatest mistake made by the Nigerian government when insurgency broke out some years back was to think of the problem as only Borno’s. Restructuring will not solve the problem of insecurity in Nigeria.”

“A fragile North East will ensure the North West is fragile; a fragile North West will also make the North Central fragile; a fragile North Central will ensure the South-South, South East, and South West are fragile.”

“There is a need for a national security policy that focuses on good governance, delivery of basic services, economic reconstruction, and sustainable development, and security sector reform.”

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