The Defence Intelligence Agency is
leaving no stone unturned in ensuring
it tracks the sources of funding for
Boko Haram and terrorism in the
country.
The Chief of Defence Intelligence, Rear
Adm. Gabriel Okoi, said the DIA was
taking steps to track the funds being
used to perpetrate acts of terrorism in
spite of the challenges inherent in the
system.
Okoi said while the banking system
made it difficult for such funds to be
effectively traced, efforts were being
made by the agency in that regard.
The Defence Intelligence Chief made
this known while speaking with
journalists shortly after the closing
ceremony of the Deputy Defence
Advisers/Attaches and Librarian
training conference in Abuja on
Wednesday.
When asked to comment on the most
likely impact of the conference on the
possibility of tracking funds used for
the operations of Boko Haram and
other terrorism activities, he said, “I
think we should expect that we
should have positive results from that
end, we are doing something about it.
It is not that we are not doing
anything about it.
“We are doing something about it. It
is just because of the system we have
in Nigeria and the banking system
does not allow you to really go into
much of those things.
“They have been empowered now; we
have given them all they need, we
told them how they should go about
intelligence gathering, so we expect
positive results from them”.
Okoi added that the Defence
authorities also created an
opportunity for the spouses of the
envoys to be included in some of the
sessions to bridge the gap of training
among them.
Source: http://www.informationng.com/2015/05/were-tracking-sources-of-boko-haram-funding-chief-of-defence-intelligence.html

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