Boko Haram: We Have 1.5 Million Displaced Persons, Says Buhari

ABUJA, NIGERIA - In a live television programme, Good Morning Nigeria, monitored on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), President Muhammadu Buhari said he was in possession of a comprehensive report of what Boko Haram members did when they were occupying some local governments in the North-East.

He put the number of Internally Displaced Persons as a result of the activities of the sect at over 1.5million.

He said: 

I have a comprehensive report of what the Boko Haram members were able to do when they occupied more than 10 Local Governments in Borno State, seven Local Governments in Yobe and Adamawa states. 

The destruction they made on the infrastructure, especially schools, hostels, roads, blown up bridges and blown up markets. We have made a list of these and what it will cost to quickly rehabilitate them. 

Again, the Internally Displaced Persons, they are more than 1.5million mostly from those three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. But they are in Kaduna, Abuja. What it takes to rehabilitate in terms of repair of towns that have been razed down by Boko Haram, like Bama, Baga and other towns and then getting the infrastructure – schools, hospitals, getting the teachers is a very expensive and a long list but is verifiable and quantifiable.

The President said contrary to the belief of many, the US was willing to help Nigeria with weapons because they understood the nation’s problems.

He recalled how the US came to the nation’s aid when it became obvious that the past administration did not want to hold elections as scheduled.

Buhari said the past government reluctantly conceded defeat after the APC won the election.

The President explained: "Because of the high technology in the U.S., the European countries and China. It is not that we do not have trained personnel, not that we don’t have basic infrastructure but the problem is that in spite of the money allegedly spent on the operations, the Air Force is virtually non-existent.

"The aircraft are not serviceable, the helicopters are not serviceable and they are few.

“There is the need for the Air Force to conduct a reconnaissance and support the ground troops. The arrangement made by the former government will soon expire. We have made this clear to America and the G-7 and we need their cooperation.

"This problem is not only in the North-East, we have a problem in the Gulf of Guinea between Senegal and Angola and the incredible theft of the Nigerian crude in an average of more than 250,000 barrels per day, which is being illegally loaded from our terminals by unpatriotic Nigerians that only consider their own selfish interests to get money.

"We registered the support and cooperation of the US and other countries who sympathise with us to make sure the Gulf of Guinea is secured so as to make it difficult for crude thieves to load at our terminals and transport it to all over the world."

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