President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that his government ready to persuade the terrorist group, Boko Haram, to embrace peace.Meanwhile he said on Friday his "government is determined" to persuade the insurgents "if they can be persuaded, we will use government institutions to persuade them to allow peace to reign.”
This he said less than 24 hours after he claimed, in an interview with BBC, that the Federal Government has technically won the battle against sect.
He also said, out of the 2 million Internally Displaced Persons, 70 per cent of them are women and children, and of these are orphans who will grow up without knowing who their parents, tradition or culture are. The President said that as "leaders we have a weighty responsibility" of providing "infrastructures" for caring for the orphans and that " they must not be denied education. Schools must be rebuilt."
He said during the campaigns his party, All Progressives Congress, analysed that security, youth unemployment including bribery and corruption are the three major problems in the country .
He said further that the security agents are making efforts in the area of security and they need " we have to continue praying for them," and that without security no development is possible ; we have to.
He said he appreciates "Danjuma and the G7 led by the United States. They have been doing their best to help Nigeria train our military.”
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