President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday promised that his Administration is totally committed to ending Boko Haram’s insurgency within the shortest time possible, stressing that members of the sect neither know God nor believe in Him.
According to a statement by the Senior Special to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the Nigerian leader made this commitment at a meeting with President Francois Hollande of France after his participation in today’s G-7 Outreach Programme in Germany.
Buhari was quoted as saying that Nigeria will welcome greater support and cooperation from France and other friendly nations for its ongoing efforts to overcome Boko Haram and restore full security and normalcy to areas affected by the group’s atrocities.
He noted that his administration was already taking concrete action towards building a more efficient and effective coalition of Nigeria and neighbouring countries against Boko Haram.
The President noted that Nigeria would appreciate more intelligence on Boko Haram’s links with ISIS, movements, training and sources of its arms and ammunition to perfect fresh tactics and strategies being evolved to overcome terrorism and insurgency in the country and its sub-region.
He used the talks with his French counterpart to insist that there was absolutely no link between Islam and what Boko Haram terrorists are doing.
On his part, President Hollande commended President Buhari’s concerted efforts to galvanize Nigeria’s armed forces, security agencies and neighouring countries for more decisive action against Boko Haram.
He assured President Buhari that France would accord greater support to Nigeria and its coalition partners in its fight against terrorism and insecurity, including military and intelligence cooperation, to help them overcome the security challenge posed by Boko Haram and its global terrorist allies as quickly as possible.
Hollande equally called for greater bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and France in other areas including trade, economic and cultural relations.
According to the statement, President Buhari also received similar pledges of enhanced support from Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada and Chancellor Angela Merkel whom he also conferred with before leaving the venue of the G-7 2015 Summit.
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