Deputy Editor of the Washington Post, Karen Attiah has warned Nigeria to get ready to contend with the social dislocation which the end of Boko Haram insurgency is likely to throw up when eventually the soldiers end the insurgency.
Attiah, who looked beyond the possible end of the Boko Haram in Nigeria, at the American University of Nigeria’s Distinguished Journalists’ Lecture Series, today said that Nigerians would need to rekindle trust and understanding amongst themselves. She delivered the lecture, titled: “Nigeria After Boko Haram” at the campus of the university in Yola, capital of Adamawa state today.
“Defeating Boko Haram will not be just a military success in clearing off the insurgency, but it would also involve social re-engeering.”
The Washington Post editorial chief said that the end of Boko Haram would also have to entail re-building trust across religious and cultural line, in addition to rehabilitating millions of the victims of the insurgency.
More later. [myad]