This year’s Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York is almost the toughest for terrorist groups like Boko Haram, Al-qaeda, Al-Shabab and others as virtually all the Heads of governments speaking during the 69th Session have indicated interests to join efforts to decisively combat the menace.
Led by the United States president, Mr. Barrack Obama and United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Heads of governments like the British Prime Minister David Cameron, South Africa president Jacob Zuma, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, leaders from the Gulf and Middle East regions, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, King Abdullah II respectively, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sis, and others informed the General Assembly on the need for a unified efforts to phase out terrorists from the globe.
Obama in his 20 minutes address lauded the Nigerian government for all its efforts to aid the fight against terrorism in Nigeria and the entire Africa, urging participants to join hands with the United Nations and ensure that they make the war against extremism a major priority.
The US leader added that the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must be degraded, and ultimately destroyed.
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