YOLA — The dearth of development in the Northeast region of Nigeria has been identified as one of the major triggers of insurgency in the region.
The North East adjudged as the poorest region in Nigeria has suffered over a decade of Insurgency leading to the death of tens of thousands of residents, displacement of millions of others, and destruction of infrastructure and properties across the region.
Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin, Lieutenant Gen. Tukur Buratai (Retd), made the disclosure as a Guest Lecturer at the 24th, 25th and 26th convocation lecture of Modibbo Adama University in Yola.
According to Buratai, the underdevelopment of the Northeast was the major factor fuelling insurgency and insecurity in the region.
In order to overcome the challenges, Burutai, said it required synergy, political will, sacrifice, and commitment of government, civil society, traditional rulers, and all stakeholders to curtail the sporadic attacks and bring the conflict to a permanent conclusion.
“Central to the argument of this paper is that security and development in the North-East should not be addressed individually but as one intrinsic element and that development is a requirement for stabilisation.”
“Any country that does not ensure the development of its people would have security challenges.”
“We should not rely on the military option as the only way to resolve our security challenges. We must address the ideological, economic, social, and political factors.”
“My recent diplomatic foray has further sharpened my views on the urgent need for military, as well as non-military solution to the lingering and needless conflict.”
“Central to the argument of this paper is that security and development in the North-East should not be addressed individually but as one intrinsic element and that development is a requirement for stabilisation,” he said.
Buratai pointed out that anyone that relied only on the military and other instruments of coercion to resolve an insurgency such as Boko Haram terrorism is bound to continue to suffer insecurity.
The North East east adjudged as the poorest region in Nigeria has suffered over a decade insurgency leading to the death of tens of thousands of residents, displacement of million of others, and destruction of infrastructure and properties across the region.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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