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We’ll take Boko Haram’s ceasefire with caution –CDS

1/30/2013

The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, said yesterday in Abuja that the ceasefire declared by Boko the Haram would be treated with caution.

Ibrahim made this known while speaking with journalists shortly after the opening of a two-day seminar on “National Security” at the Defence College.

According to him, there are certain objective tests that will ensure that the declaration made sense.

“There are certain objective tests we think that will make sense. Let us assume that we can have a long period of about one month where no bomb explodes, where nobody is shot, nobody is beheaded.

“Where no church is bombed and where no National Defence College, AANDEC, as a gathering of the best brains who were concerned with national security.

He said that the gathering was the intellectual dimension aimed at providing solution to a national problem. On current development in Mali, Ibrahim expressed satisfaction, adding that things are moving so fast.

“We congratulate the efforts of those who see this (Mali crisis) as a worthy cause to support Africa, especially the sub-region. “We congratulate France, United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and the AU.”

Ibrahim said that the problem in northern Mali was essentially an ECOWAS affair but that the regional body decided to place it in the international domain.

“We are very excited, especially the Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff about the pace at which things had moved so far,” he said. He assured that very soon the ECOWAS forces would move to the second and third stages of their mandate which were the consolidation and reform of the Malian forces.

The theme of the seminar is; “Contemporary National Security Challenges: Policy Options.”

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