(NIGERIA) Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari has charged President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more troops and other security operatives in the troubled North-East ravaged by Boko Haram insurgents rather than keep them for the 2015 general elections.
At a meeting with stakeholders of Ogoni ethnic nationality in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State yesterday, Buhari argued that if voted into power, his government would implement the report of the United Nations Environment Programme on the clean-up of Ogoniland.
The retired general maintained that insurgency would have been a thing of the past if the Federal Government (FG) had moved the number of soldiers, police and operatives of the State Security Service deployed during elections to Borno and Yobe states as well as the other areas affected by insurgency.
According to Buhari, "I have made this comment before and the Federal Government refused to react to it; the number of soldiers, policemen and officers of the State Security Services they deploy during elections, if they had deployed them to Borno and Yobe states to fight Boko Haram, by now, Boko Haram would have been history.
"Boko Haram is not a religious group; Boko Haram is not an ethnic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist group. They attack people in schools, they attack people in Churches, they attack people in Mosques, they attack people in markets, and they shout Allahu Akbah! No religion rejoices over the blood of innocent people."
The former Head of State promised that he would put an end to the pollution in Ogoniland if elected as the President of the country during the February 14 election.
Buhari maintained his commitment to confront terrorism, corruption and other forms of crimes, if elected President.
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