President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday harped on the need for world leaders to take military action, effective border security, intelligence collection, sharing and vigorous policing action against the Islamic State in the Middle East and other violent extremism across the globe.
He spoke during the Global Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIS and violent extremism at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in United States.
Stressing that Nigeria has noted with satisfaction the efforts of the UN and the rest of the international community towards containing ISIS, he said that world leaders need to do more.
He said: “We need to take military action combined with effective border security, intelligence collection and sharing, and vigorous policing action.
“These alone may not suffice, but they can certainly stem the tide and reverse the process of recruitment, movement and effective operation of foreign terrorist fighters and their associated radical extremists.
“In order to put in place the critical components of an effective approach to countering ISIS and eventually defeating it, we must address the threat from the source.”
He said that everything must be done to prevent young people from turning to terror in the first place.
“And the young people that turn to violent extremism do not exist in a vacuum – they are often part of communities and families and are lured into the fold of barbaric and nihilistic organizations, somehow, through a misguided appeal to their worst fears, expectations and apparent frustrations.”
Apart from addressing the causes of the attraction and how to deal with them, he said that close attention should be paid to other manifest factors that may not be tangible but can be crucial including good governance, which entails transparency, accountability and rule of law.
These factors, he said, remained the basis on which the process should be kick-started to rid the world of the menace of terrorism and violent extremism.
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