President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that technology has made the fight against terrorism difficult.
Buhari stated this during at a press conference at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He said, “Fundamentally, the issue of security has been more harrowing. The international terrorism, now with the help of technology and million of volunteers, respects no borders.
“It is a lot of concern for people of conscience to learn that in Nigeria, we have more than two million Internally Displaced Persons, most of them women and children.”
He stated that the Boko Haram insurgents resorted to technologies in terms of using Improvised Explosive Devices on soft target after the local government areas initially under their control was retrieved by troops.
Buhari, while stressing that many of the territories under Boko Haram’s captive had been freed, averred that the major challenge facing his government is how to rehabilitate the North East and resettle those displaced. Hide quoted text
“On the IDPs, more than 60 per cent of them are women and children and more than 60 per cent of the children are orphans. This is a pathetic situation and it is a major problem we are going to face in this country,” Buhari said.
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