Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, ex-Chief of Army Staff
The Former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has lamented that terrorists have permeated the society and won communities to their side.
According to him, the solution to the security crisis in the country is a multi-pronged approach and military warfare alone is not the solution.
Buratai said this during his screening as an ambassadorial nominee by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
He added that there are so many ungovernable spaces in the country with no government presence. The government he says must provide infrastructure in these communities to win the people and it will take another twenty years to resolve this crisis.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Thursday, February 4 announced that the immediate service chiefs have been nominated by President Buhari for the position of ambassadors.
They are former Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, the former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, and the former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas.
Others are former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, and the former Chief of Defence Intelligence, Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Usman.
