We Will Crush Boko Haram Within Two Months --Buhari

President -Elect, Muhammadu Buhari has re-assured that his
administration will crush the Boko Haram militants within two months
of his assuming office.

General Buhari spoke yesterday evening during an interview with
Chris-tiane Amanpour on CNN, monitored in Lagos.

He said there is insecu-rity in the north-east and in the Niger Delta
regions just as he explains "we know how they started and where they
are now and we will rapidly give attention to security in the country.
And I believe we will ef-fectively deal with them in two months when
we get into office."

He said the Federal Government made some mistakes in its fight against
Boko Haram and his ad-ministration will addressed the issues. Buhari
however stressed the importance of the support and assistance of
Nigeria's neighbours: Niger, Cameroon and Chad to help checkmate the
mili-tants.

"We will be needing the cooperation of neighbour-ing countries such as
Cam-eroon, Chad and Niger. There were efforts made by the President
Goodluck Jonathan administration, but it was not good enough and it
came rather late," he said.

But where did the Jona-than administration go wrong. Buhari drew
atten-tion to the poor showing of the Nigerian military in the fight
against Boko Haram and explained thus: "We expected the Federal
Gov-ernment four years ago to sit down with these coun-tries and make
sure they do not allow the terrorists free movement across bor-ders,
training facilities and movement of weapons.

"These were only done a few months ago and we have seen how Cameroon,
Chad and Niger are fighting Boko Haram more than Ni-geria is doing
until recently. Really we have seen enough and we have enough law
enforcement to face Boko Haram squarely."

Buhari is confident that under his government, the Nigeria Army will
perform differently. He also said the performance of the military was
affected by corruption in the system.

"They will...if you re-call, the Nigerian soldiers out of all ethical
expecta-tions were granting inter-views to foreign journalists, saying
they were being sent to fight terrorists without proper weapons

"And then the National Assembly attempted to conduct a hearing to find
out how much money was approved for training and weapon in the last
three years but that hearing was scuttled by the administra-tion."