THE Federal Government, on Monday, said that it had developed new tactics to effectively deal with the problem of sporadic bomb blasts by the Boko Haram sect.

This followed the Christmas day bomb blasts at Saint Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, that left many worshipers dead and others sustaining various degrees of injuries.

Minister of Interior, Mr Patrick Abba Moro, revealed the new plans of the government to stop the activities of the Islamic fundamentalists in Abuja, while on inspection visit to the scene of the blast at Madalla. He also visited some of the hospitals to commiserate with some of the blasts victims receiving treatment.

Moro, however, failed to disclose a detail of the new tactics the government wants to employ because of security implication.

He said that the government had acknowledged the high-level intelligence employed consistently by the sect as well as the constant change in its operational tactics after every successful or failed attack.

Accordingly, the minister said since the government’s attempts to tackle the situation in the recent time seemed ineffective, the only option left to it now was to employ the planned new tactics to stop the sect from continuing to wreck havoc in the country.

He said: “This is a problem that is a little foreign to Nigeria. It’s a security problem that Nigeria as a government has attempted to tackle in the recent time. Again, it leaves a lot of room for improvement because from the repetition of the incidence of bomb blasts, it means that the government has to do more.

“The government has to also change tactics. This, definitely, with a determined effort to curb the excesses of these sectarian groups, the government will tackle.

“As it is with terrorism all over the world, they change their tactics, they change their modus operandi with every successful or unsuccessful attempt at bomb blast.”




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