In the wake of the terrorist attacks on kano and the incessant outpouring of sympathy and solidarity with victims of boko haram all over the north, i have asked why the Nigerian government has not convincingly taken cognisance of the situation and keeps repeating the same mistake while the populace suffer equally heinous horrors from boko haram. for the horrors of boko haram to be stopped there are certain objectives the Nigerian government needs to address head on which I would enumerate here.



1. Intelligence And Technology
the war against terrorism can only be won through well skilled and equipped intelligence agency. DSS has not been well equipped and most times seems clueless about the dealing of boko haram sect, bomb blast is has common has saying good morning in the north east, and raids occur in villages and suburbs even in places were the military as liberated. Are our DSS competent? How many of their intelligence gathering has curb bomb blast recently. there is the need to fight the war with more technologies this is the 21st century and it seem the DSS is in the stone age. CCTV cameras, satellite monitoring, drones, motion sensors etc are technologies the government need to invest on for security. Intelligence and technology are intertwined in this modern world one can't do without the other and the Nigerian government need to be pro active in technological advancements to fight terrorism.



3. Infrastructural Assessment
boko haram has bomb church, mosque, and markets mostly....... Have we learnt from our mistake? Have there been mechanism put in place to checkmate such occurrences that would help stop the suicide bombers from repeating their act of Bloodshedding? Your guess is has good has mine a capital NO! until when we start addressing this issues of safety in public places like schools,place of worship, market, library etc. boko haram would always see Nigerian's as soft targets with no defence mechanism and use our place of worship and markets against us.



4. Police formation
it is clear as looking into a still water that the Nigerian community is under policed especially the north, there need to be a massive recruitment into the police, a recruitment based on merit and efficiency especially the counter terrorism unit which would help combat the fight against the insurgence. Why wait till next year. The recruitment should be done soon than procrastinating it until next year with no specific time frame.



5. Economic funding
who are those funding boko haram? Have any of them been brought to book? Although we have seen the CBN making monetary policies to stop money laundering but to what effect has it had on boko haram. Until when the government start attacking financiers and incarcerating them then would we see a sharp drop in their acts because every organization depends on money to function optimally and boko haram seem to function well and even earned themselves the deadliest group in the world. It is high time we follow their money trail and attack their sponsors.



6. Weapon assessment and border control
how do the insurgents get weapons? Where do they buy them from? How do they get into the country? Is it from the border or it came through the ports. Two days ago i watched on youtube how boko haram boast of an arsenal in stock to fight the Nigerian army. Where did they get it from? Have our intelligence services clearly look into this issue, what is the government doing to disarm the militant or cut their access to weapons? Nigerian borders are one of the most porous in the world, until when the immigration services block the border weapons and militants would always have their way into the country



7. Gun and militancy control in the north;
from time immemorial we have all known the north has always been with different types of sect either tribal or religious and most of them are armed with ammunitions. This various sect have always at a time enjoyed sympathy from the political class of their localities. Like we see in the case of ombatse sect........what has the government done toward such dastardly gathering and their sponsor who use them during election? Boko haram started has a small sect with political sentiment and look at where we are today. Until when the government clamp down on such sect and their sponsors in politics then the north can know peace.



8. Islamic clerics and Cultural reorientation;
It is a known fact that some people especially some clerics still show sympathy to boko haram and still instigate their worshippers against the government even in places like kano and jigawa there is need of a cultural recalibration that is necessary in the north in addressing extremism and true islam a role that can be played by moderate clerics and the government. There is a strong need to fish out the clerics that preach wahabism and jihadist ideology to help kill the cancer of terrorism in our society.


My deepest condolences to families that have suffered from the horrors of boko haram and the victims of bomb blast may you find solitude in the almighty.

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