"You have to socialize politically to solve Boko Haram" - Jimoh Ibrahim advises President Bola Tinubu

Senator-elect and business mogul, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim has given his opinion about Boko Haram which he claimed to be a political problem.

In an interview with Channels on Tuesday, the renowned lawyer shared that one of the ways to curb the issues was for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to return Nigerian troops back to their barracks.

“Boko Haram is a political problem. You have to socialize politically to solve Boko Haram. The first thing Mr President has to do is to withdraw soldiers from the front(line) and return them back to the barracks children that left NDA as a lieutenant, they have become major-general and the war is still there. Is the military a challenge to ourselves? No,” he said.

According to him, the insurgency which has been battling the country for years has been taken with the wrong approach which is why it is still a problem.

Boko Haram will still be there if you don’t socialize domestically – Jimoh

He explained that the alleged failure was the fault of authorities in the North East because of their strategies for fighting terrorism.

Ibrahim added that Nigeria has spent a whooping sum of $1.2 trillion to fight Boko Haram, however, what is needed to be done is to look for information, socialization, and doing meetings with several people.

“Go into political socialization. You have to socialize domestically. Assuming you have spent 10 percent of $1.2 trillion on political socialization, Boko Haram would have disappeared. But you spent 89 percent on a factor that is not significant to confront Boko Haram, Boko Haram will still be there,” Ibrahim advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Surrendered Boko Haram members should be taken back to their communities – Senate President

In other news, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday that the reports that Boko Haram elements are coming out of their trenches to surrender to Nigerian troops should be encouraged and surrendered members should be reintegrated to their communities.

Lawan stated this in Maiduguri, Borno State at the Palace of Shehu of Borno, Abubakar El-Kanemi during his condolence visit to the Monarch who lost his elder brother and to the family of former Foreign Affairs minister, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe over the death of his mother-In-Law.

He stated that recent surrender by Boko Haram terrorist is a good development for the security architecture of the nation adding that government would ensure that those received are appropriately processed.