BOKO HARAM: WE’LL SOON OVERCOME BOKO HARAM – ANYAOKU, GAMBARI

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By Clifford Ndujihe & Prisca Sam-Duru
on    /   in News 7:42 am  

FORMER Common-wealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku and Nigeria’s former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, yesterday, said Nigeria will soon overcome her prime security challenge, the Boko Haram insurgency.
In separate chats in Lagos after launching a book, Consolidation of Peace in Africa: The Role of the United Nations Peace Building Commission, authored by Ambassador Eloho Otobo, the elder statesmen said President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort in combating the insurgency and insecurity will soon yield dividends.
While Anyaoku chaired the book launch, Gambari delivered the keynote speech. The book was launched by the Pan African Institute for Global Affairs and Strategy, PAIGAS, in partnership with The Diplomat Newspaper.
Anyaoku said: “We have been having relationships (with other countries) but we have never had relationships as concretized as they are beginning to be now.
“Starting with the formal arrangement that we have succeeded in making with our immediate neighbours, the joint force combating Boko Haramdid not exist before.”
Gambari, in his speech, urged Nigeria to start preparing for post-insurgency peace building efforts in the North-East zone.
His words: “Drawing on my experience in the services of the UN in various capacities, I can assert with a high degree of confidence that peace building has political and social-economic dimensions.
“Although the crisis of the Niger Delta has receded, there is an unfinished peace building agenda that ranges from repair of environmental degradation to economic revitalization of many of the communities to provide assured means of livelihood for the people.”

 Read More: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/well-soon-overcome-boko-haram-anyaoku-gambari/

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