BY LEVI JOHNSON
Apparently looking at the rate of dastardly killings across the country by the Boko Haram insurgent, former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sanction all Nigeria’s Intelligence Agencies.
He attributed the failure of the military in the North-East part of the country to the under-motivation of the soldiers who support to prosecute the war.
Duke, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme said Boko Haram is fast taking over parts of Nigeria and there is the need to snatch back the country from the clutches of marauders.
He, therefore, urged the Nigerian government to sanction all the intelligence agencies for every Boko Haram attack, going forward.
Donald Duke’s words: “Regarding the North-East, we have to strengthen our intelligence gathering, we need to motivate them, we need to motivate the soldiers out there but more importantly, we need to institute consequences into our nation.
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“We talk about the killings in our nation and in each state, we have the police, they have their intelligence arm; we have the DSS, they gather intelligence; we have the Army, they gather intelligence; we have the Navy, they have an intelligence arm and we have the Air Force, they do the same. But these things happen and none of these intelligence bodies, about five, six in every state, know; they are all taken unawares and there are no consequences. And that is the problem, there must be consequences because they are paid to look out for the people.
“There is a need for the complete revamp of our security network. We can’t go on like this definitely; we are losing our country.
“The soldiers in the North-East should be motivated, they are under-motivated. We need to task them on intelligence gathering and strengthen their firepower.”
