Olusegun Obasanjo speaks on the difficulty against fighting Boko haram

Nigeria's former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo speaks on why it seems difficult for the war against Boko Haram in Nigeria to end permanently. 

The former president speaking in an interview with BBC said: "We did not do what we should have done, we left it to become a very intractable problem.

"He said: "I went out in 2011 to Maiduguri. 

I took great risk to find out what is really happening. 

Boko haram, do they have grievances, if they have grievances, what are their grievances and I brought all that to Jonathan.

" Obasanjo said Jonathan didn’t believe that Boko Haram was a serious issue.

Obasanjo said Jonathan didn’t believe that Boko Haram was a serious issue. 

"He thought that it was a device by the North to prevent him from continuing as president of Nigeria which was rather unfortunate. 

‘Even when Chibok girls were abducted, it took a while for the government to believe. 

Now if that is the situation, you can understand why the right attention was not paid to the issue of Boko Haram when it should have been paid. ‘Boko Haram will not be over. 

It started from a position of gross under-development, unemployment, youth frustration in the north-east. So we must be treating the disease not the symptom," he said.

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