Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday ascribed
the continued Boko Haram attacks being witnessed in the North-East geopolitical
zone to the huge size of the area.
He said the country would still be witnessing
such attacks being carried out by members of the Boko Haram sect because of the
vast area involved.
Osinbajo spoke when he represented President
Muhammadu Buhari at the 2017 Eid-el-Kabir Lunch held inside the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
The Vice-President said, “I was speaking to the UK Foreign Minister (Boris
Johnson) a few days ago and I explained to him how it is so difficult to police
the North-East. North-East that you speak about, over the past two years, we
have managed to ensure that Boko Haram does not hold any territory, but there
are still opportunistic attacks here and there.
“I have
seen the vast farmlands of Kebbi, Jigawa and Kano. The other day, we were in
Taraba, a place that is already producing vegetables, cucumber, pepper and
supplying the major supermarkets in Lagos, Abuja and Kaduna that used to import
these vegetables.
“Just five hectares of greenhouse in Taraba State
is producing the needs of all the major supermarkets in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos
states.
“An Israeli farmer who works in one of those
greenhouses, on getting to Jalingo for the first time and seeing the beautiful
hills, sent a message to his wife saying, ‘we are close to heaven.’ But by the
time he got to Mambilla and got to the Plateau, he sent another message and
said, ‘we are now in heaven!’”
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