Former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi on Wednesday hinted that the Nigerian government knows those behind the decade-long Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

He made the comment during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

“They [government] know. Of course, it is in the news,” Commodore Olawunmi said.

“In April this year, the government said they had arrested 400 Bureau De Change (BDCs)-related people that were sponsoring Boko Haram. They told us.”

The presidency had earlier said it would publish names of those behind the Boko Haram war with the development generating heated controversy across the country.

But months down the line, the long-waited list is yet to be made public, a situation the ex-military officer says does not bode well for the government who he accused of shielding criminals.

“Try them, we know them. Why can’t this government, if not that they are partisan, bring those people out for trial?” he asked, corroborating calls from several quarters for the Federal Government to make good its promise.

He claimed that the government has developed cold feet in fighting the insurgency because some of those backing Boko Haram are now top-ranking government officials.

“I can’t come on air and start mentioning names of people that are presently in government that the boys we arrested mentioned,” he said, referencing his time as a member of the military intelligence team in 2017.

“Some of them are governors now. Some of them are in the Senate. Some of them are in Aso Rock.”

Commodore Olawunmi believes the Nigerian government is not sincere in the fight against Boko Haram.

Olawunmi’s remark is the latest in the continued debates about how Nigeria can end the Boko Haram war which has led to thousands of deaths and displaced millions especially in the northeast and some neighbouring countries.

While the military says the ongoing onslaught against the terrorists has yielded results and the criminals surrendering in ‘droves’, calls for granting amnesty to some of the “repentant” members of the sect have also divided opinions among stakeholders.

Advocates, citing the amnesty programme of the ex-President Musa Yar’Adua to ex-Niger Delta militants, say it will bring peace to the troubled North-East.

But Olawunmi has faulted the move.

“The challenge we have in this country cannot be solved the same way we solved the problem of the Niger Delta. I told them we can’t use the same strategy for Boko Haram,” he argued, citing when he served a security and intelligence brief at the Defence Headquarters between 2016 and 2017.

According to him, fishing out the sponsors is a major way of ending the war.

“The centre of gravity of Boko Haram and insurgency in Nigeria are the sponsors of that programme,” the professor of Intelligence and Global Security Studies, added.

https://www.channelstv.com/2021/08/25/insecurity-the-govt-knows-sponsors-of-boko-haram-says-olawumi/

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SMH
This buhari led incompetent terrorists infested administration maladministration is making history in the world's black book!
They'll rather opt for paying huge monies for ransom rather than hunt down bandits and will even prefer wasting tax payers money rehabilitating murderous boko haram terrorists instead !
Very pathetic.

So that the FG know the terrorists elements isn't news!

cazchi:


Dude, can you stop with this rubbish? Nigeria is done. It'd take 1000 years to reverse the damge. The only option is to split and isolate the north. Save lives!

Your opinion lacks credence......people like you would never have supported an endsars protest that brought an end to daily news of young persons been killed daily by those Murderous SARS officials....so don't ever say never! Be guided.
Deep Quote:
Ability to have a positive mindset to challenges or problem is a superpower...You totally lack it.

cazchi:


All the best man. Don't hold your breath. 60 years, nothing to show for it. Aren't you tired? Do you think youre the only one that ever meant well for this rotten nation? Will it take "Bandits" coming to your room armed before you wake up? smh.. P.S The govt want Channels TV closed and their hosts arrested.

This present buhari led administration maladministration won't be there forever!
Power is transient just like life.

WE NEED YOUNG VISIONARY LEADERS IN NIGERIA!

@SENIORWRITER

The sponsor and the beneficiary are the same.



Yet to see the difference!

That's an open secret na. MNK was hammering on it but they said he was crazy. Now it's happening right b4 our eyes.

Nothing will happen

If nothing happened to ordinary BDC operators financing Boko Haram even when it has been proven

What can you do to a governor and senator

What If they are all working for Buhari to achieve sharia all over Nigeria

Like I said, dead on arrival

And if this surprised you, I pity you as a Nigerian

Seniorwriter:
SMH
This buhari led incompetent terrorists infested administration maladministration is making history in the world's black book!
They'll rather opt for paying huge monies for ransom rather than hunt down bandits and will even prefer wasting tax payers money rehabilitating murderous boko haram terrorists instead !
Very pathetic.

So that the FG know the terrorists elements isn't news!

WE NEED YOUNG VISIONARY LEADERS IN NIGERIA!

@SENIORWRITER

Dude, can you stop with this rubbish? Nigeria is done. It'd take 1000 years to reverse the damge. The only option is to split and isolate the north. Save lives!

Seniorwriter:
SMH
This buhari led incompetent terrorists infested administration maladministration is making history in the world's black book!
They'll rather opt for paying huge monies for ransom rather than hunt down bandits and will even prefer wasting tax payers money rehabilitating murderous boko haram terrorists instead !
Very pathetic.

So that the FG know the terrorists elements isn't news!

Your opinion lacks credence......people like you would never have supported an endsars protest that brought an end to daily news of young persons been killed daily by those Murderous SARS officials....so don't ever say never! Be guided.
Deep Quote:
Ability to have a positive mindset to challenges or problem is a superpower...You totally lack it.

WE NEED YOUNG VISIONARY LEADERS IN NIGERIA!

@SENIORWRITER

All the best man. Don't hold your breath. 60 years, nothing to show for it. Aren't you tired? Do you think youre the only one that ever meant well for this rotten nation? Will it take "Bandits" coming to your room armed before you wake up? smh.. P.S The govt want Channels TV closed and their hosts arrested.