Obasanjo called on Nigeria and other African countries to pursue economic integration on the basis of regional economic communities.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the battle against Boko Haram in Nigeria and other fierce gatherings the nation over can't be allowed to the military operations to sit unbothered, saying it can't tackle the issue.
Obasanjo who talked about clash in Africa at the African Export-Import Bank's 22nd Annual General Meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia, said the emergencies were brought on by inability to address certain social issues in the general public, for example, instructive uniqueness.
As indicated by an announcement by Afrixembank's representative, Obi Emekekwue, Obasanjo "proposed a carrot and stick answer for the contentions on the mainland through a methodology including military arrangements and social advancement since a simply military methodology would not work."
The ex-president included, "a circumstance, for example, in Nigeria, where one area had an instructive fullfillment level of 79 percent while another had just 19 percent, created room for conflict."
He approached Nigeria and other African nations to seek after monetary reconciliation on the premise of territorial financial groups instead of doing as such with the more than 54 nations on the
Obasanjo included that "Africa ought to begin increasing the value of its products as opposed to sending out crude wares just for those items to be sent back to the mainland as completed merchandise."
