Politicians stoking BOKO HARAM insurgency, says Okonjo-Iweala

Following the recent Nyanya uproar, amongst other Boko Haram deadly acts, Nigeria's minister of finance - Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo has said that the insurgency by the violent Islamic sect, BokoHaram, is being stoked by politicians, who “will use anything to win election.”

Whilst the President of the Federal Republic is doing all he can to reduce these unwanted occurrences - even meeting with the 36 state governors, security chiefs and top cabinet members in Abuja to discuss the way forward in combating the menace of the insurgents in the North-East, no solution seems to come up.

And Okonjo-Iweala explained the the reasons for the severity of these recent incidences are merely stemmed from political jingoism.
“We tend to notice when the electoral cycle comes in, all these things heat up. What we are going through now is democracy in raw form, because people are fighting for power and they will use anything to get there and to win the election,” the minister said in an interview reported by Reuters on Monday.

The minister also added that Nigeria is never in a war situation:

“There is no war; there is an insurgency. We are not in a Columbia situation,” she told Reuters in the interview said to have been conducted on Sunday in her car in Abuja as she headed to the airport to fly to New York

Ngozi has assured Nigerians that the nation will overcome these difficult times.