‘Boko Haram Will Stop Only When Politicians’ Corruption Ends’

Abubakar ShekauAn Italian nun, Enza Guccione, has declared that the Boko Haram insurgency can only be defeated if corruption ends in the country.

According to Guccione, Boko Haram’s deadly attacks will only end if corruption is eliminated in the country.

Drawing on her years of experience in the country, the Nigeria-based Italian nun said the insurgency is as a result of Nigeria’s internal instability and politicians’ lack of effort to promote the country’s development.

She was quoted as telling the IBTimes UK that “I believe Nigerian politics famous for its great corruption does not aim at promoting the country’s development.

“Politicians’ only interest is to get rich by exploiting the country’s oil. There is a continuous fight over oil production”.

Alluding to this spate of scandals, the nun said: “Boko Haram will stop only when politicians’ corruption ends.

“To defeat terrorism, leaders must build a solid future for the nation by providing education for everybody, creating jobs for the youths, using the country’s natural resources to help Nigerians and guaranteeing the recognition of basic human rights to all the citizens.”

“If the insurgency is a religious war, Boko Haram would have focused their attacks on the southwest of Nigeria, instead of the North, mainly inhabited by Muslims and which is close to Muslim-majority countries Chad, Niger and Cameroon”, she said.

4 COMMENTS

  1. The Italian got it right. Only God will save this nation from social and political cataclysm. When our past intellectuals were foreseeing and warning of this impending doom, the powers that be called them bluff and even pronounced them the rantings of ants, now we are face to face with the monster blowing fire out of his mouth. I have always said that the only problem of Nigeria is Corruption and nothing else, corruption gave birth not only to Boko Haram but to every other ills in Nigeria. It has eaten very deep over the past decades that it is now almost impossible to even reduce talk less of eliminating totally. Our past leaders, our political institutions, name it, every one is corrupt. The ones that are supposed to protect the poor are the ones oppressing and extorting them. Can such a society survive? Whenever you see corruption decreasing in Nigeria, be sure things are going to get better, but will it? when those that are supposed to fight it are themselves master of corruption.