The Solutions To Boko Haram—Fayose

<p><em>The solutions to Boko Haram can be located within<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Engineer Ayodele Fayose&comma; former governor of Ekiti State has offered suggestions to the solutions to insurgency ravaging Nigeria&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking in a live interview in Abuja on Monday evening&comma; the two-term former governor lamented the inability of government to proffer the solutions to the menace of terrorism which has claimed many lives and rendered thousands homeless&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He however stated that the <strong>solutions<&sol;strong> cannot be consigned to federal government alone saying the state governors have vital roles to play&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We should not expect the federal government to provide all the solutions&period; As a matter of fact&comma; the solutions to insurgency rest squarely with the state governors&comma;” he emphasized&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking further&comma; Fayose opined that if the state governor do what is expected of them&comma; Boko Haram would become a thing of the past&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Drawing specific examples from his methods while in office as Ekiti governor&comma; Fayose said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You see&comma; when I was in office as the governor of Ekiti State&comma; there were laws in place that regulated how cows were reared in my State&period; Herdsmen who violated the law were prosecuted in the court of law&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Many state governors came to meet me and we discuseed about how we were managing the situation in Ekiti&period; No forest in Ekiti was available for any terrorist to carry out nefarious actions&period; I had vigilante and local hunters who I was paying every month&period; They did their jobs very well and we were always ahead of any intending criminal in intelligence gathering&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Therefore&comma; I strongly believe that if state governors decide to deploy means into securing their forests&comma; the situation will be under control and there will be no need to be calling President Buhari over activities of bandits in States&comma;” he stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;