Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, says if elected president, his government would be willing to investigate the military hierarchy as a way of resolving the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
Atiku, who was responding to a question on the life Town Hall meeting tagged: “The Candidates,” aired on the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, noted that if a military leader has been provided with the necessary equipment and the welfare of his men taken care of, he had no reason not come up tops against the insurgents.
He therefore said his government would ensure that the military was well equipped, insisting that he would not hesitate to deal with any senior officer who failed in his duty after being adequately funded.
He said; “We cannot continue to accept that kind of situation whereby commanders lose lives, lose equipment to terrorists and then nothing happens to them.’’
On the clashes between the military and Shiite members, the PDP Presidential candidate posited that the military had no business getting involved with the Shiites.
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According to him, the problem with the shiites falls under the purvey of the police and not the military.
Responding to a question on what he would do with the Amnesty International report indicting the military on allegations of murder and genocide, Atiku said he would investigate the report before acting on it.
The Town Hall meeting which held in Abuja on Wednesday, was organised by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with NTA and DARIA media.
