President Rawlings' Statement On Boko Haram

Boko Haram has made its point. However making such a point at the expense of the lives of innocent people - men, women and children is simply unacceptable. While welcoming the international intervention it is equally important to look into the root causes that give rise to these developments. The ease with which various local activists perpetrated acts of piracy and kidnapping on the oil coast of Nigeria was the first sign of our vulnerability. Military might and force is not enough to overcome terrorists with conviction. I am in the name of Allah pleading for the return of the girls back to their families.