Security Expert Calls for New Strategy In Fighting Insurgency

Security Expert, Umar Aliyu, has urged the Nigerian government to adopt a new strategy in fighting insurgencies.

Aliyu also said that at this stage, the State of Emergency previously declared by President Goodluck Jonathan and attacks on military locations should be a thing of the past. 

He stated that there had been enough incidents to act as lessons. “We are not learning or someone is not thinking somewhere,” he said.

Speaking on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily on Monday, Mr. Aliyu used incidents in Jaji, Kaduna, Abuja amongst others as examples.

He said: “There have been enough attacks on military locations to make the ones that have occurred, in the hub of activities very encouraging”.

Mr. Aliyu said that the nature of attack is doubting and discouraging which needed a “belated wake-up call”.

He advised that a better way of tackling insecurity is to think higher and “up our game”.

Mr. Aliyu said that the fact that there was calm in some parts of the country should not make Nigerians fold their hands, as the next plan of the terrorist group was unknown.

“They could go from bomb to something else because terrorism is formless,” he pointed out.

He called for increase in the number of security personnel, stressing that most attacks succeeded because security personnel on ground were not enough.