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Rawlings : Military might not enough to overcome terrorists with conviction
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has condemned as unacceptable the desire of terror group Boko Haram to ransom innocent people in fighting its cause.
In a statement he issued Monday praying, in the name of Allah, for the return of the school girls forcibly taken and conscripted into Islam by Boko Haram back to their families, Rawlings said it was wrong for Boko Haram to make its point that way.
He also welcomed international intervention to rescue the children but cautioned “it is equally important to look into the root causes that give rise to these developments.”
“The ease with which various local activists perpetrated acts of piracy and kidnapping on the oil coast of Nigeria was the first sign of our vulnerability.
“Military might and force is not enough to overcome terrorists with conviction,” he said.
