Nigeria, June 15 -- Nigeria's former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, under whom terrorists and other armed groups killed thousands of people and displaced many more, has proposed strategies to tackle the nation's security crises.

Mr Buratai, who led the Nigerian Army between 2015 and 2021 during some of the most violent phases of the Boko Haram conflict and the expansion of armed criminal groups across northern Nigeria, made the remarks on Monday in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES.

His tenure was marked by military offensives that reclaimed territory from insurgents, but also by persistent insecurity, repeated mass kidnappings and allegations of human rights abuses, including the massacre of over 300 Shiites and the secret bur...