Senate President Seek International Coalition Against Boko Haram

Senate President Bukola Saraki has urged the International Community to partner with Nigeria in order to defeat Boko Haram insurgency in the North-eastern part of the country. Saraki made the call while delivering his key note address at the ongoing 4th World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments, organized by the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.
He noted that the menace of insurgency and all forms of terrorism across the world require international collaboration to curtail as they pose great threat to global peace and democracy. Like most other countries, according to the Senate President, terrorism has become a clog on Nigeria’s path to sustainable development. He stated that terrorism can no longer be treated like a local problem and that it was time the world joined Nigeria to decisively defeat Boko Haram as well as rebuild the Northeast. The senate President also bemoaned the plight of internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast and other parts of the country, saying the human misery in the camps he recently visited is horrendous.