Boko Haram attacks, ex-DSS Director

Following the growing incidence of renewed attacks
by the displaced Boko Haram terrorists, a former 
Director in the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr.
 Mike Ejiofor, has charged Nigerians to brace up
 for more of such attacks.

According to the ERIC GOSSIP affiliate in Abuja, Emmy,
 who, said with the military’s announcement of the capture
 of the terrorists’ stronghold, Camp Zero in Sambisa forest, 
the sect was now in disarray, but more decisive in launching attacks on Nigerians as a way of proving its
continued existence.

He said: “In an asymmetric war or unconventional war,
 it is even more difficult to fight because you do not
 have a central control. Since the Camp Zero has been
 taken, Sambisa forest is still very open and that is 
why we have continued to have attacks,uncoordinated 
attacks on soft targets.

“Nigerians now have to be more security conscious
 and to look around their environment with a view to 
assisting the military because what we are going to 
have going forward, are these uncoordinated attacks. 

We should be expecting more of the attacks.

“The capture of Camp Zero is not the end of the war.
 You know initially they used to plan their attacks there,
 but now it is no more coordinated, which is their own way
 of proving that they are still potent because government
 has also told us that they have technically defeated
 Boko Haram.

“So, they (terrorists) also want to prove that they are still potent by carrying out such uncoordinated attacks. 

The thing is that we expect some of these attacks but
 it should not be left to the military alone. Nigerians have
 to be on their guards, because it is often said that ‘the 
price of liberty is eternal vigilance’.”

“We just have to be vigilant to make sure some of these
 things are curtailed because we cannot just gloss 
over it. Ireland, Pakistan, Iraq and others have continued
 to fight this type of war for so long. With the capture
 of Osama Bin Laden, has that brought the end to the 
al-Qaeda struggle? No. This is a global war and not a 
Nigerian affair. “We have the international dimension especially with Boko Haram’s connection 
with ISIS.

So, we have infiltrations from neighbouring countries. 
What about the issue of herdsmen? It has been 
established that some of them are not Nigerians too”,
 he stated.

Commending the military for the successes recorded so 
far in prosecuting the war, Ejiofor counselled the military
 to detach itself from politics, urging the Federal
 Government to focus on ending the war rather than 
giving in to unnecessary propaganda.