Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali has said that Nigeria is set to employ a multi-dimensional strategy, including stick and carrot approach to bring the menace of Boko Haram to an end this year.
He told The Anadolu Agency during his visit to Turkey within the scope of the 7th annual ambassadors’ conference, which took place between Jan. 5-9 in Ankara that the government would resort to what he called “soft approach. The approach will be multi-dimensional. We are open to every way to solve this problem.”
According to Aminu Wali, the government is trying to develop programme that will create jobs, to be more inclusive and bring about more development in Nigeria, in an effort to tackle the terrorism issue in a socio-economic way.
“That will reduce the temptation for people to move into those kinds of activities. On the other hand, we are also open to negotiating. Of course, we have to identify whom we are talking to. This is serious willingness. We are open to the peaceful resolution of all conflicts,” he said. [myad]
