The Coordinator, Counter-Terrorism, Office of the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Sarkin-Yaki Bello, says Nigeria will soon evolve a strategy to counter acts of terrorism in the country.

Bello said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the end of a seminar on fighting terrorism organised by the National Defences College in Abuja on Tuesday.

He maintained that the strategy would take into consideration, the peculiarities of challenges faced by agencies of government in the country in fighting terrorism.

According to him, Nigeria has been working with the United Kingdom on the project for some time now.

He said, “We are evolving our own strategy. No country has the same strategy. In making a strategy, most especially on counter-terrorism, you look at your domestic environment; you look at the international environment.

“You look at many factors – some of them peculiar to yourself alone – and then you come out with a strategy in order to confront the challenge; and that is what we are doing.

“Very soon, I am sure Nigeria will have a strategy to counter the menace of terrorism in this country.”

Bello said the various interactions organised by government agencies on counter terrorism in Nigeria was useful in the battle to tackle terrorism.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-uk-working-on-counter-terrorism-strategy/

What BS strategy? Okay, tell me on EFFECTIVE strategy that this lameduck government has ever implemented successfully, even before BH?

Storyland. According to numerous reports since 2007, Nigeria has been working with one country on another to tackle security in Nigeria, yet in all that time, security has progressively decayed. Government should stop pi**ing down our backs o jare!

In exchange for what ? Oyeeeel


U.K no dey carry last.

Until i start seeing foreign military bases on ground or some drones in the skies, i'm tire of all these we will, we are working on, we shall, very soon, d govt shud stfu already.

Why uk and not us?

Why should somebody just wake up and start vomiting trash. How long will it take the strategy to materialize

Nigeria is a story land

Sickening how these people carry on like the West is actually out to help without motive.

Home grown problems require home grown solutions Mr Counter-Terrorism Coordinator!

There is no magic that will dismantle terrorism if some of the members of the Nigerian Armed forces are part of the terrorists. Fighting terrorism has to do with Intelligence gathering, but when your enemy is ahead of you then you can do nothing. First the Government should weed out the Boko Haram in the force and Government hirarchy

Them Go Knack Mr BULK HARM Akpako.

Make them use KOBOKO wipe them well well.

I sometimes wonder why as a people (1 love) we hardly ever ask questions of the government about issues that impact on our lives tremendously. Let us excuse the Military Era. it has been at least 15 yrs since "Democracy". Are you saying that it was never on the tables to form a strategy before MASSOB, OPC, MEND, Bakassi, Maitasine, Boko-Haram What has the SSS, DMI,Police and Military forces been doing all these while with the huge budget allocated for Security?

That aside, the food has been served and found distasteful do we add salt to taste (Compromise The Constitution for Peace) or do we throw-away the food and start all over again (Let Boko-Haram have their way)

What the UK (or other countries) could bring to the table viz counter-terrorism is intelligence effort at those who supply and fund terrorism from outside this country. No need to see UK personnel here at all.

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Going through this news on Sahara reporter, http://saharareporters.com/news-page/nigeria-police-and-boko-haram-fresh-gun-duel-kano

only to do image search and alas ,

http://islammemo.cc/akhbar/Somalia/2011/01/03/114575.html

Don't trust the media

Interesting material to read

Who is sending the guns to Nigeria?
By Osae BrownAs Nigerians were on the street protesting over fuel subsidy removal, a British based man was being arraigned in UK over the shipping of 80,000 rifles and pistols and 32 million rounds of ammunition to Nigeria. The shipment included 40,000 AK47 assault rifles, 30,000 rifles and 10,000 9mm pistols.According to a report by the BBC, the man whose name is Gary Hyde, shipped these huge arm cache without receiving permission from the relevant government department in the UK.Gary Hyde was not alone in this deal. It was carried out with his business partner Karl Kleber, a German national based in Germany, the court was told.The pair acted as middle men between two Polish companies acting for the Nigerian buyers and Chinese companies, the court heard, according to the BBC report. Both men received commission payments for the deals totaling around $1.3m (£840,000) or N351 million.The story apparently left several questions unanswered. Who were the Nigerian buyers? Were these guns really delivered to Nigeria eventually?It is also interesting that since this story broke out in the British media, the Nigerian government has not come out with any specific statement on it. Were these weapons imported by the Nigerian government? If they were not imported by the Nigerian government, have they made any efforts to trace the importers of these large numbers of weapons into the country? Thirty two million rounds of ammunition are enough to kill thirty two million Nigerians, assuming each bullet will kill a Nigerian? This may be an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that if there is this amount of guns and ammunition out there outside the control of the government, then every Nigerian has a serious course to be worried at this time.The reputation of Gary Hyde, the man at the centre of the storm shows that Nigerians have to be concerned that he has set his eyes on supplying arms to the country. A report in February 2011, in The Observer in UK shows that Hyde is also facing charges in the US for smuggling arms into the country. The Observer describes him as “Britain’s very own lord of war; an international arms dealer, whose chief currency is the AK-47 assault rifle”The Observer reports that US officials arrested Hyde in connection with the alleged illegal import into the US of almost 6,000 Chinese-produced AK-47 magazines, each capable of holding up to 75 rounds of ammunition.The Observer also quotes a Wiki leaks release of confidential US embassy cables which shows that in 2008 York Guns, where Gary Hyde is a director, tried to ship 130,000 of the assault rifles to Libya. The WikiLeaks revelation shows that Gary Hyde through his company acted as an intermediary between an unidentified Ukrainian arms manufacturer and Libyan officials. “The size of the deal raised eyebrows in diplomatic circles, as Libya has only 70,000 ground-force troops and these would be unlikely to use a weapon as dated as the AK-47. The cable noted that the export licence was rejected because the "UK is concerned that the intention may be to re-export the weapons, particularly to armed rebel factions backed by Khartoum and/or Ndjamena in the Chad/Sudan conflict".Kleber, Gary Hyde’s German partner also has a reputation that does not sit well with the authorities. The Observer reports that “in 2008 the German federal police agency, the BKA, launched an investigation into Kleber to determine whether he had been involved in "the illegal sale of machine guns via Croatia to Iraq". This was in response to allegations that companies linked to Hyde had sold tens of thousands of guns to Ziad Cattan, the former head of military procurement at the Iraq Defence Ministry, without an appropriate arms brokering licence. Cattan fled Iraq after a warrant was issued for his arrest amid allegations that he had siphoned off millions of dollars in corrupt deals.”What emerges from these reports is that the two men now being named in connection with supply of arms to Nigeria should raise serious concerns in Nigeria. Have they supplied some other arms into the country, that the authorities are not aware?The concern becomes even more real considering the fact that at the same time Gary Hyde was being arraigned in UK, the Ghanaian authorities intercepted a truck loaded with arms and ammunitions heading to Nigeria. The ammunitions included pump action rifles and live rounds. These arrests are coming at time the Boko Haram insurgence is getting worse in Northern Nigeria as bombs explode on almost on daily basis and masked men go on killing spree with sophisticated weapons. The activities of Boko Haram, the continuous crisis in Jos is no doubt raising serious concerns and fears of retaliation from other ethnic groups. Could this inflow of arms be linked to ethnic groups arming themselves? Are they arming themselves to defend themselves or to go on the offensive?This is a critical period in Nigeria’s history and all people of goodwill must stand up and douse the rising intention. As I said in my earlier post, the Rwanda trip will be a dangerous place for Nigeria to go. The government must also act and act fast.This is also the time the international community must come to the aid of Nigeria. It is clear that the Nigeria intelligence agencies do not have the capacity to deal with the emerging challenge. They must offer their help at this time. They cannot wait for a Rwandan type crisis to develop before they intervene. China, especially, should caution its business community. This is not the time to fuel the crisis in Nigeria for monetary gains. Nigeria is China’s biggest market in Africa. An unstable Nigeria will not be good for China’s long term economic interest.Article culled fromhttp://osae-brown-insights..com/2012/01/who-is-sending-guns-to-nigeria.html

Article culled from
http://osae-brown-insights..com/2012/01/who-is-sending-guns-to-nigeria.html

Free me jorr,, I thought they were building a state of the art prison in Nigeria for deportees,

when shall we learn that Na rhe same people?

make britain leave us alone.

na the same people bind us together and we are duffering it now,

If they should help,they should be talking about disuniting us again.

no be the same people