Boko Haram can be defeated in 2 months if ... —Okorocha

Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha

The governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has said that the menace of the dreaded Boko Haram sect could be stopped in two months, only if visionary and efficient leadership is encouraged at the highest level of power in Nigeria.

Okorocha, who stated this on Friday, during a dinner he organised for media executives and nominees from across the country, who were in Owerri for the Nigeria Media Merit Award 2014, noted that the problem had remained intractable because some people were benefiting from fighting the insurgents.

However, he said no president of Nigeria had plans to fail in governance, noting that leaders of the country since independence never had bad intentions.

What he said went wrong was the leaders’ inappropriate usage of both the human and material resources, which he said also, contributed to government’s inability to tackle insurgencies in the country.

He advocated a bottom-up approach to power, stating that this is what will reduce excessive power of the president which hinders power distribution among the federating units.

“The president is too powerful while the masses continue to suffer. We need leaders who can give jobs to the people. Vision is very important to surmount most of the challenges facing the country, this is why my administration placed great premium on education by making it free from primary to university levels,” Okorocha said.

He, however, said that decentralisation of power was germane to solving the challenges facing the country. ...NigerianTribune