Military Confrontation - Nigeria President Tells Boko Haram To Come Out And Talk Reuters

By Joe Brock plus Felix Onuah

ABUJA Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:21pm EST

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan inhibited the violent Islamist Boko Haram sect on Thursday to spot by themselves along with state evidently their demands being a groundwork for talks, while acknowledging that will military confrontation on it's own won't end their insurgency.

In a great interview with Reuters along at the presidential house in the capital Abuja, Jonathan reported there was no doubt in which Boko Haram acquired back links along with other jihadist groups in the garden Nigeria.

The sect mortally wounded above 500 folks 2009 plus more when compared with 250 inside the first many days of 2012 throughout rifle and also bomb assaults inside Africa's best oil producer, Human Rights Watch explained this particular week.

Coordinated attacks inside the northern city involving Kano wiped out 186 men and women with Friday with its a lot of fatal boxing techinque in order to date, prompting the chief executive to visit surviving victims.

"If that they plainly recognise yourself now in addition to say here is the reason we have been resisting, this is the reason we have been confronting government or it is a reason most of us kill a few simple men and women in addition to their qualities . next you will have a time frame for dialogue," said Jonathan.

"We will probably dialogue, let's know your complications and we are going to solve your issue nonetheless as long as they you should not distinguish themselves, who will a person conversation with?"

Jonathan, who won a great election final year or so this observers said seemed to be Nigeria's cleanest since conclusion with military concept throughout 1999, has been criticized pertaining to dealing with this insurgency in the north implementing solely military services means.

But on this appointment they pledged to be able to carry progression to be able to remote, semi-arid corners of the region where by high youth being out of work includes provided straightforward recruits to get extremists.

" Military confrontation alone will never eliminate horror attacks," they said, including of which a strong "enabling environment for young people to locate jobs" had been furthermore needed.

"Our investment should be to ensure each of our irrigation plans are generally all revitalized therefore most of these youth tend to be engaged throughout productive agriculture in addition to . will never be no cost to get these individuals to recruit," Jonathan mentioned inside an lavish diplomatic conference room adorned by using photographs regarding Nigeria's leads involving state given that independence with 1960.

"WITHOUT A FACE"

As well seeing that approaching underneath fire with regard to his / her handling with the uncertainty inside north, Jonathan undergone 1 week connected with vitriolic anti-government protests this month whenever he / she tried to be able to discards resource subsidies, section of projects to cut the fiscal costs, although had been forced to partly reinstate it.

That instigated the oil ministry to claim some sort of host of actions created for defusing arrest fury in relation to the particular extent involving corruption and mismanagement within the actual sector, like organising a new committee that will urgent across the stalled Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

Jonathan reported this individual appeared to be reassured which a final variant in the PIB, which purposes that will wholly overhaul your place's shambolic petrol industry, would be put prior to national putting your unit together by way of the final regarding February.

Wearing a dark grey kaftan along with his hallmark fedora hat, the former zoology lecturer and governor with Bayelsa state from the oil prosperous Niger Delta claimed the particular Boko Haram situation can be significantly harder to help take care of compared to southeastern Delta conflict, that has been largely defused last season below an amnesty your dog made it simpler for broker.

That was because the Islamist militants shouldn't have a particular public figurehead or negotiable aims, this individual said.