How To End Boko Haram insurgency – Ex-IGP Aliyu Attah

Ex-Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Aliyu Attah under the Ibrahim Babangida military regime in a recent interview talks about the rising spate of criminality and terrorist activities in Nigeria.

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On if there was any sign in the past that there will be such an uprising

It is rather unfortunate but these people are seriously spreading and have started encroaching in the South. For several years, we have championed the fight of African peacekeeping body. We have been to Libya, been to Mali and so many poor African countries. We have tried to put the uprising down in so many countries and when you do that you have not fully disarmed these fighters.

Some of them will go into hiding. You do not know which one of them that has a Nigerian origin, so they will trace their way back to the country. You cannot stop people from crossing from one African nation to the other especially with our porous borders.

If you displace a person, he has his gun; he will be looking for an opportunity to make use of his experience outside and make more money to buy hard drugs which they are already addicted to. They are all seeking for revenge. Such a person will easily accept to kill for any amount. Then some politicians started giving them small money to become their fighters. At a point they outlived their usefulness as soon as the politician achieves his aim. They are drug addicts and need money, so anything goes.

This is exactly what I believe the problem is. People are running away from Central African Republic where there is no government and so many Nigerians are there who have also relocated.

On the way out of this menace

We have gone too bad but we cannot fold our hands and watch. We should establish a functional Police Community Relations Commission headed by ex-security personnel. Let people come around together, and find a way to make it work. These men live among us and if the community knows of a confidential means to pass across information, they will gladly grab it.  Nigerians should be conscious of their environment these days because every man is a suspect. We are all Nigerians, and, therefore, we have to work together to save our country.

The police, SSS, military intelligence and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) should close rank and embark on a well coordinated approach to intelligence gathering and sharing, if current efforts at tackling the emerging security challenges are to achieve any meaningful result.

There is also a need to tap from the wealth of experience from indigenous ex-Inspectors General of Police, with a view to effectively confronting the nation’s crisis.

3 COMMENTS

  1. What do u xpect d youth to do when d govt had failed to perform their duties those who manage to graduate, no job, no genue empowerment, no power, politicians were mainly to enrich themselves. They never see any thing self.

  2. What baffles me most is the huge amount of money the delegate are collecting for sleeping, where they’re suppose to stand on their toes to delibrate on forwardness of this country.Nigerian youth are jobless and u can imagine some old and tired people are busy collecting #4million per month.Na wa for this country o!

  3. Until and until our politicians understand that political offices they hold do not offer them the opportunity to loot and enrich themselves but, to serve and create an enabling environment for every citizen of this country to thrive, to protect the right of every citizen regardless of age, religion,class, ethnicity or political ideologies and to provide foundamental amenities for both the poor n rich. Boko Haram or whatever they do are there today because they chose to carry guns and lethal materials to express their anger just like the Niger Delta militant in the near past, some other people have resorted to advance fee fraud while some director are stealing with their pens just to show us how badly our leaders have handle our dear Nigeria. Those who could not find an opportunity to express their man made frustrations are dieing in silence.
    No good learning environment,power, roads, affordable houses,water,healt facilities and ultimately no food.
    Only God can avert a full revution that is dawning on this country. God Pls Help Us!