Boko Haram Will Be Defeated By Refusing Them A Recruitment Base - Buhari

The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has said that the fraud called Boko Haram can be defeated by denying the group a recruitment base.

The president-elect stated this while chieftains of Nassarawa state came to congratulate him on his victory in presidential poll.

He said: “The fraud called Boko Haram can be defeated by denying it a recruitment base.

“No religion allows for the killing of children in school dormitory, in markets and places of worship. They have nothing to do with religion. They are terrorists and we are going to deal with them as they deal with terrorists anywhere.”

Buhari said he is greatly pained by the devastation of schools in the northeastern part of Nigeria, an action he said could contradict thousands of children access to education and a better future unless something was done immediately to avoid this tragedy.

“The worst thing anybody can do is to deny children access to education. That will be destructive to their lives and we are not going to allow that to happen,” he added.

President-elect declared that his administration will assist the states to get more money to modify infrastructure by ensuring that all national collectible revenues are paid straight into the federation account and each tier of administration given its due share.

“As at now, the government does not even know how many revenue accounts it has. We will give all the tiers what is due to them but will hold them to be accountable as we would the federal government.”

Buhari while defining Nassarawa state as his own “political laboratory”, saying the only CPC-controlled state of the 36 others declared the experiment as having been a success.

“From one state, I now have 22 political laboratories.”

The president-elect praised governor Al-Makura for surviving his many impeachment plots, saying “without Nassarawa, there would not have been an APC.”

One the key electoral promises of Buhari was to defeat Boko Haram insurgency. The whole Nigeria is awaited the end of terror, devastating their lives for more than 6 years.