…calls for community policing to end suicide bombing
The current victories by the Nigerian Army over terrorism in Nigeria
have continued to recieve commendations even as the Eko Civil Rights
Movement, Thursday, joined the foray of those who have acknowledged the
giant achievements of the military.
Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai In
a statement signed and made available by its Executive Director, Otunba
Olusayo Olatokun, during a rally to mark the 2017 Global Terrorism
Index, commissioned by the Institute for Economics and Peace, which held
at the Freedom Park in Lagos, the group said the recent positive rating
of Nigeria is an appraisal of the counter insurgency efforts that has
returned a positive verdict.
It said the institute has further restored hope in the fact that
President Buhari’s counter terrorism approach has yielded success and
that defeating Boko Haram and other groups is possible.
“The Institute for Peace has restored our hope with the release of its
Global Terrorism Index 2017 which has reaffirmed our faith that
terrorism can be defeated by showing that deaths from Boko Haram are on
the decline.
“We see the Global Terrorism Index as a report to celebrate because it
is important to fully appraise the efforts that have gone into acheiving
such reduction in the casualty rate occasioned by Boko Haram
activities”.
Commending further they said this international dimension has vouched
for the Nigerian Military that it has made impact even when according to
them the reverse seems to be the case.
While calling on stakeholder committment, they however cautioned against
relenting on the basis of the current percieved decline adding that it
should rather be seen as a pointer to what has been done right and
therefore can be done better.
Meanwhile the group has also called for more intelligence involvement by
the Department of State Services, the Nigerian Police Force and
Community leaders in order to end recent spate of suicide missions by
fleeing elements of Boko Haram.
According to them the degree of degradation of Boko Haram calls for more
of this intelligence work as opposed to the military force and strategy
that the Nigerian Army has deployed to bring Boko Haram to its present
level.
” …the Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services and community
leaders at all levels must now face it as part of their sacred mandates
that they must halt the incessant cases of suicide bombings which
fleeing Boko Haram members intend to use as their last resort after
their defeat by the military”. They added.
Suggesting further, the group noted that the intelligence community
would fare better if there was collaboration between them and the
military, citing Lagos state as a model for all to emulate.
” our suggestion is for both orgainsations to work together in
conjunction with the military to adopt this approach which is one of
the proactive collaborations between military in terms of providing
intelligence, that has kept the South West of the country free from any
insugency”.
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