{"id":438845,"date":"2011-06-09T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/jonathan-we-dont-need-u-s-to-handle-boko-haram\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:36:10","slug":"jonathan-we-dont-need-u-s-to-handle-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/jonathan-we-dont-need-u-s-to-handle-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan &#8211; We Don&#8217;t Need U.S. to Handle Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"33.6113175193\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed S. Shehu<\/p>\n<p>9 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in New York said Nigeria doesn&#8217;t require the assistance of United States of America or any other country to handle the Boko Haram crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can promise you that as a government we are committed and up to the task and will bring it down,&#8221; Jonathan told reporters at the United Nations in New York, ahead of his meeting in Washington with President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not rise to the level where we will have to ask President Obama or other world leaders for assistance,&#8221; he was quoted by Bloomberg as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan also said the Federal Government would adopt the carrot and stick options to contain the activities of Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>The President was quoted in a statement yesterday by the Office of the Special Adviser (Media &#038; Publicity) to the President and signed by Mr Attah Esa, saying &#8220;just as similar terrorist acts in the Niger Delta were brought under control, government would use both &#8220;carrot and stick&#8221; options to contain Boko Haram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue of explosions has been with us even before the elections and we are doing all within our powers to bring it down and we will manage and suppress it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan, who denied any connection between the bombing incidents and his election, described his victory at the polls as cutting across religious and ethnic affiliations throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boko Haram is still a domestic issue that generates international interest because of the explosions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The group is accused of killing a number of people in several attacks in the country the latest being the Maiduguri attack on Tuesday where ten people died.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0With Agency Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106091007.html\" title=\"Jonathan - We Don't Need U.S. to Handle Boko Haram\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan &#8211; We Don&#8217;t Need U.S. to Handle Boko Haram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mohammed S. Shehu 9 June 2011 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in New York said Nigeria doesn&#8217;t require the assistance of United States of America or any other country to handle the Boko Haram crisis. &#8220;I can promise you that as a government we are committed and up to the task and will bring it down,&#8221; Jonathan told reporters at the United Nations in New York, ahead of his meeting in Washington with President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jonathan - We Don&#039;t Need U.S. to Handle Boko Haram - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/jonathan-we-dont-need-u-s-to-handle-boko-haram\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Jonathan - We Don&#039;t Need U.S. to Handle Boko Haram - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Mohammed S. 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