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The Shekau-led faction of BH has released its first video exclusively featuring members claiming to be from Niger State.

It shows about one hundred persons praying Eid in the heart of a bush before showing three fighters sending Eid greetings in Hausa, English and Fulfulde.
It’s interesting that two of the fighters were respectively wearing Nigerian military & police uniforms. This indicates that they might’ve recently killed security forces and got their uniforms. This is because in their past video, the only speaker from Niger was in mufti.
This video, if genuine, is further evidence that BH has expanded to the northcentral. The dense forest there is a perfect haven for terrorists and if the group is able to consolidate its presence in Niger, it can easily target Abuja as well as to other states like Kwara and Kogi.
I won’t get tired of urging the FG and the Niger State Govt to take this threat seriously. We shouldn’t wait until the situation gets out of control before we start running helter-skelter. We better nip this challenge from the bud before it grows too gigantic to be uprooted.
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Following my tweet on the attack on Gov. Zulum. A v senior public servant wrote to me that it wasn’t BH but “a resistance & delay tactic by the Military to stop the Gov. from accessing Baga, the Center for the Military High Command’s illegal Multi-Million Naira Fishing Business.”
It was then that understood what Gov. Zulum meant when he said it was “sabotage”. The person that informed me perhaps knows the politics of the war against BH better than anyone else. He had been at the center (on behalf of his people) for years and is a very smart, educated man.
Accusations that military heads and their cronies don’t want this war to end and are sabotaging efforts is growing by the day. Nigerians are almost unanimous that they should be fired but Buhari has refused despite expiration of their two terms and their palpable failure.
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Bulama Bukarti
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Senator Ali Ndume told BBC Hausa that a “repentant” Boko Haram fighter released by the Buhari admin has killed his father, robbed his wealth & disappeared [possibly back to BH]. He claimed that most released fighters go back to BH and that his constituents reject the initiative.
The BBC interviewed several victims, all of whom opposed the program. A woman whose husband was killed in her presence said her 4 kids are still out of school and govt has done nothing to help her. She said it’s unfair to release the killers of her husband while she’s suffering.
I think the Buhari needs to reconsider its policy on “repentant” BH members. Govt needs to listen to Nigerians especially victims. If the essence of reintegrating them is to attain peace, community members must be carried along. Otherwise, the program will be counterproductive.
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Two months ago, the Army announced that its chief Buratai has “relocated fully to the North East” to lead the war against BH. “Relocate” & “fully” gave Nigerians the impression that Buratai has moved and will remain there until BH is defeated, but Buratai is now back in Abuja.
He came back yesterday saying they’ve killed over 1,429 and arrested 116. But the army didn’t adduce evidence to support the figure they claimed. Even if we believe the figures and the ones from Chad, the total will be 2,500, which is still less than half of total BH fighters.
BH has 5k-7k fighters. Similarly, both factions of BH continue to kill civilians and raid villages. As I write, the Damaturu-Dapchi-Bayamari road, over 250km, has been taken over by BH fighters. Commercial and private cars have stopped plying that road because of BH checkpoints.
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