Tambuwal seeks world leaders’ assistance on Africa’s insecurity

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, has said the insecurity in Africa demands an urgent solution from world leaders if they truly seek a better world. Tambuwal spoke in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, where he chaired a session of the Crans Montana Forum on, “The Impact of Sahelo-Saharan Crisis on African Security, Economy and Political Stability.”
The Swiss-based CMF seeks to promote a humane world with equal opportunities for all and focuses on Africa/South-South Cooperation for global integration.
The speaker observed that the crises in the Sahelian region, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya and Sudan as well as Boko Haram in Nigeria were issues that required global efforts to address rather than reducing them to problems for the affected countries.
He commended the CMF for “providing a platform where people from across the world come together to discuss how to make Africa a better place to live.”
He added, “Being the emerging economy that we all agree that it is,  the security upheavals in Africa, especially the Sahelian region, has to be addressed. We have to discuss and proffer solutions to the problem.”
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, spoke on the Boko Haram perspective to insecurity in parts of Northern Nigeria.
However, he told the session not to classify the conflicts in Africa as one and the same for all the states.
The governor observed that some of the conflicts were political, economic and religious, adding that each conflict should be isolated and tackled.
He, however, admitted that a common factor in all the states was that they had “weak state structures,” which allowed terror suspects to operate easily.
“To find solutions therefore, there has to be a wholistic and international response.
“Nigeria went to Mali because it felt that it must intervene in order to arrest the crisis in that country from spreading more than it is doing already,” he stated.
For Nigeria, Fayemi noted that the Boko Haram menace gained momentum because the government had not demonstrated the seriousness to identify and penalise the suspects to serve as a deterrent.
He also told the forum that there were three Boko Haram segments in Nigeria -economic Boko Haram, political Boko Haram and religious Boko Haram.
The governor claimed that out of the three, the economic Boko Haram was more devastating because lack of economic opportunities had made it possible for those with political and religious agenda to exploit an army of idle hands to recruit for their selfish intentions.
Security and foreign affairs ministers from Algeria, Mali and Cameroun informed the session that the terrorists operating in the Sahelian region had an agenda to build a terrorist enclave.
Former Malian Prime Minister, Mr. Chekhov Diarra, for example, said that the terrorists found his country as their base because it had the weakest state structures in the region.