{"id":18079,"date":"2019-05-19T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T21:06:05","slug":"boko-haram-has-gone-beyond-fgs-capacity-says-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18079","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Has Gone Beyond FG\u2019s Capacity, Says Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, stating that the Federal Government alone cannot tackle the menace.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the second session of the seventh Synod of the Anglican Communion, Oleh Diocese, in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Obasanjo called for greater collaborating among several African governments in tackling terrorism.<br \/>\n\u201cIntelligence was poor and governments embarked on games of denials while paying ransoms which strengthened the insurgents and yet governments denied payment of ransoms.<br \/>\n\u201cToday, the security issue has gone beyond the wit and capacity of Nigerian government or even West African governments,\u201d he stated.<br \/>\nAccording to him, insecurity must be taken seriously at all levels and be addressed at once without favouritism or cuddling.<br \/>\nHe regretted that Boko Haram and herdsmen acts of violence were not treated as they should at the beginning.<br \/>\n\u201cThey have both incubated and developed beyond what Nigeria can handle alone.\u00a0 They are now combined and internationalised with ISIS in control.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is no longer an issue of lack of education and lack of employment for our youth in Nigeria which it began as, it is now West African fulanisation, African islamisation and global organised crimes of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun trafficking, illegal mining and regime change,\u201d Obasanjo said.<br \/>\nWhile noting that intelligence was poor and governments embarked on games of denials, he condemned a situation whereby payments for ransoms which strengthened the insurgents were made \u201cyet governments denied payment of ransoms.\u201d<br \/>\nHe however wants the Federal Government to see to the right welfare packages for troops fighting the Boko Haram terrorists.<br \/>\nHe lamented that \u201csoldiers were poorly trained for the unusual mission, poorly equipped, poorly motivated, poorly led and made to engage in propaganda rather than achieving results.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Channels TV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, stating that the Federal Government alone cannot tackle the menace. Speaking at the second session of the seventh Synod of the Anglican Communion, Oleh Diocese, in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Obasanjo called for greater collaborating among several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}