President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in New York
urged the UN and the International Community to take military action,
effective border security and intelligence collection to tackle violent
extremism.
Addressing a Global Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, called by President Barack Obama,
Buhari said the international community will also be required to work
together to deter and disrupt illicit financial flows from nations with
weak anti–theft structures to other parts of the world.
He said where such funds were identified the victim State should be assisted to recover them expeditiously.
"These alone may not suffice, but they can certainly stem the tide and reverse the process of recruitment.
In
order to put in place the critical components of an effective approach
to countering ISIL and eventually defeating it, he said world leaders
must address the threat from the source.
"We must find a way to prevent young people from turning to terror in the first place.
"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 organisations, somehow, through a misguided
appeal to their worst fears, expectations and apparent frustrations.
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