Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.) has made shocking revelations.

He said; “One mistake that we have been making is to assume that only the military can solve this problem. Military alone cannot solve it.”

“In the first place, it wasn’t the military that started it. There were political, social, economic aspects that needed to be addressed.”

“Recently, I counted five local government areas in Borno State that do not have good access roads. There are so many ungovernable spaces which the insurgencies are penetrating.”

“The places don’t have schools, hospitals and so on. Education is very fundamental. Unless these things are put in place, nothing will change. This issue may take over 20 years.”

“Indoctrination has penetrated so deep. As early as the sixties and the seventies, it was there. We can not continue to use the same tactics and same procedures and expect to get different results. We have to change.”