Military solutions alone can't end terrorism in North - Shettima

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Vice President Kashim Shettima is convinced that military solutions cannot end insecurity and Insurgency in the country, especially in the north.

Shettima spoke at the Kano Government House while responding to questions from newsmen.

At another forum, however, Shettima said the President Bola Tinubu government would in the coming weeks unveil an initiative to address insurgency and poverty, among other challenges facing Nigerians, especially those living in the north.

Answering questions from journalists at the Kano Government House, Shettima said, “Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crises in the North-west.”

He said Tinubu was determined to redefine the meaning and concept of modern governance, which would address the root causes of banditry and insurgency in the country.

Shettima stated, “The president is determined to redefine the meaning and concept of modern governance. And the crises we have in the North-west, further associated with poverty and social exclusion, is something that the president is determined to confront.

“In the coming weeks, he is coming up and is going to unveil the ‘Fulaku’ solution. Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crises in the North-west. There has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution.

“President Bola Tinubu, in the next couple of weeks, will unveil the ‘Fulaku’ solution, which will address the grievances and the social exclusion of our Fulani cousins in the North-west. He was addressing the root causes of all the banditry and insurgency in the region,”

Shettima, who was accompanied by Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin to commiserate with the government and people of Kano State over the demise of elder statesman, Alhaji Abubakar Galadanci, noted, “The social exclusion is also something that the president is determined to frontally confront and in the coming weeks he is going to unveil the Fulaku solution.”

The vice president was received by Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf, before proceeding to the residence of the Emir of Bichi, HRH, Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero, where he commiserated with him on the passing away of the late Imam Galadanci, and expressed Tinubu’s condolences.

From the Emir of Bichi’s residence, the Shettima proceeded to the family compound of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam Galadanci, where he was received by Professor Shehu Galadanci and Air Vice Marshal Nura Imam (rtd), on behalf of the extended family.