The United States of America,
U.S.A, has told Nigeria to look beyond a military option in resolving internal
conflicts.
The United States Institute for
Peace, USIP, made the call in Washington DC when the agency convened a
gathering of US officials, diplomats and Nigerian leaders.
The event looked at “Peace in
Nigeria: How to build it, and America’s role” and possible options beyond
military operations were explored.
The Acting Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S Department of State,
Thomas Hushek, in his concluding remarks said, “durable peace” in Nigeria “will
require a painstaking dialogue.”
Nigeria’s military recently went
into an open confrontation with members of the pro-Biafra group, the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, through“Operation Python Dance” in the Southeast.
Hushek said Nigeria is a very
critical U.S. partner on the continent, but added that the President Muhammadu
Buhari government must in its pursuit of peace first identify the options that
citizens want implemented.
The U.S. Assistant secretary
believes the “2019 election will be critical to Nigeria’s continued prosperity
and stability.
“Achieving stability or building
political peace is a political endeavour,” he said, explaining that
responsiveness to people’s needs would “build trust and encourage durable
peace.”
A former Chief of Army Staff and
former Commander of combined United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in
Darfur, Sudan, General Agwai, is one of the members of the Nigeria Senior
Working Group that participated in the conference on peace in Nigeria.
Agwai, in his opening remark,
described himself as a simple old soldier humbled by the presence of the State
Department and the U.S. and “privileged to stand and talk to learned people
across the world about what we are doing.”
The Nigerian government is stupidly obeying the cabals, herdsmen and Boko Haram that are the true TERRORISTS.
ReplyDeleteWe need your help,we are been molested by this so called military men in every part of Nigerian since the emergence of PMB. Imagine a situation where you have soldiers checking point in all the major roads in the federation collecting and extorting money from each and every truck that passes by. Imagine you are a passenger in a public bus driving pass a soldier check,if found making phone calls you will be made to do frog jump and also roll on a mud water. A lot to no mention. We are in military reign not Democracy. The practice here now is Autocracy not Democracy
ReplyDeleteYou should know our present Government is senseless to proscribe a separatists group. We need restructuring now
ReplyDeleteNOBODY on this earth can force nigerian government to withdraw the military options on IPOB members, let US continue to to back ipob members, let us see whether if nigerian government started their trail US can able to stop it
ReplyDeleteMuktari zali you are insane indeed. Talking nonsense 👎
ReplyDeleteWhat ever you called me I said NO any president from outside Nigeria can stop the trails of terrorist ipob group
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ReplyDeleteActually, this is an internal problem of Nigeria and could be solved without the interference of an outsiders. When US arrested those they suspected to be terrorists and clamp them in cells on a lonely Island of Gutamayo Bay, did US listen to world leaders to release them. Because, it's an internal problem and every arrest must go through a process before release.
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