Atiku says "I know how boko haram started"

Nigeria's former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said, he knows how Boko Haram started in the country.

Speaking on how he was going to solve the challenge of Boko Haram terrorism, he said: “I happen to know how Boko Haram came into being. They were offshoots of political thuggery.

"Politicians used those boys in Boko Haram to win elections and then abandoned them and then there were no jobs for them. It was the same thing with the Niger Delta. In 1998, I saw it myself and I warned people.

“It’s going to be a multifaceted approach. It will involve negotiations. It will involve military action.

The former vice president also criticised the President Buhari-led government’s anti-corruption strategy, saying that, "You can’t deploy only punitive measures to fight corruption. One way of trying to reduce corruption to the barest minimum is also to introduce e-governance. If you are applying for a permit, if you are applying for a passport, why not apply online? Why can’t we also employ preventive measures to stop corruption?

Meanwhile, it was previously reported that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, on Wednesday, October 10, disclosed President Muhammadu Buhari's 1042-pages achievement compendium of his administration.

It was reported that Mustapha who made this known at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting noted that the compendium was a summary of policies and programmes implemented between 2015 and 2017.

He explained further that the document will serve as first hand information to the president on projects and programmes implemented.

According to him, the document would also serve as reference point and lends credence to the fact that the administration has fulfilled its campaign promises.