The Borno state governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has advised that if the country really wants to defeat the dreaded Islamic sect called Bokoharam, a fresh 100,000 youths(50,000 of them from Borno state) should be recruited into the army.
Addresing the House of Representatives’ Committe on Defence led by Hon. Babajimi Benson, he said:“you cannot fight this insurgency to an end without technology and without manpower and without funding”.
“Take my words, they (the military) on’t have the manpower, they don’t have the equipment. Kindly advise the Speaker and the Senate President to tell Mr President to approve the massive recruitment of soldiers. We need about 100,000 more to be recruited into the Nigerian Army. They should come and employ the locals whether they have western education or not.
“We need to recruit nothing less than 50,000 men from Borno, we have able-bodied men that can join the Nigerian Armed Forces on an ad-hoc basis.”