Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, have drawn global attention
to insecurity in some parts of the African continent, saying that
tackling insecurity in the continent requires an urgent intervention of
world leaders.
Both Fayemi and Tambuwal spoke in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday at the
opening session of the Crans Montana Forum on, “The Impact of
Sahelo-Saharan Crisis on African Security, Economy and Political
Stability.”
Fayemi, who was one of the main speakers at the forum, spoke on the
Boko Haram perspective to insecurity in parts of Northern Nigeria. He
told the audience that included world leaders, representatives of
governments, Ministers of foreign affairs, security experts, diplomats,
Peace Scholars and policy makers, not to classify the conflicts in
Africa as one and the same for all the states.
He posited that some of the conflicts were political, economic and
religious in nature, adding that each conflict should be isolated and
tackled.
He, however, admitted that a common factor in all the states was that
they had “weak state structures,” which allowed terror suspects to
operate easily. “To find solutions therefore, there has to be a holistic
and international response.”
The governor said: “Nigeria went to Mali because it felt that it must
intervene in order to arrest the crisis in that country from spreading
more than it is doing already,”
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