U.S. to Nigeria: capture Boko Haram leaders

From the United States came yesterday a piece
of advice on Boko Haram – its leaders must be
captured and prosecuted for Nigeria to achieve
its potential as a stable regional leader.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Ms Wendy Sherman spoke in Abuja during a
meeting of the United States-Nigeria Bi-
national Commission Regional Security
Cooperation Working Group.
Ms Sherman said Boko Haram offered no
practical solutions to the North’s problems,
but capitalised on frustration, religious
differences and economic and social difficulties
to undermine the government and make the
country ungovernable.
The United States, she said, knows from
experience the difficulty in confronting an
enemy that respects no boundaries and kills
civilians indiscriminately.
Success, in her view, cannot be achieved
unless Nigeria surmounts the challenges that
frustrate progress.
Ms Sherman said the country faces several
challenges to national and regional stability.
The largest of these challenges is, according to
her, the Boko Haram-led insurgency, which
has created widespread insecurity across the
North, increased tensions among ethnic
communities, interrupted development,
frightened off investors and generated
concerns among the country’s northern
neighbours.
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