When will government end insurgency? 

The devilish activities of Boko Haram and the breakaway group, the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), in recent time have been worrisome and require holistic and scientific solutions by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

From December 2019 through January 2020, Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province have carried out series of attacks both on civilians and military personnel that led to the murder of several innocent Nigerians, mostly Christians.

This shows that Nigerian security agents are ineffective and not well equipped to eliminate insurgency in Nigeria. A situation where the terrorists’ hideout can’t be found in order for the Nigerian military to neutralise it is so bad.

Since 2002 when Boko Haram insurgency started in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, for 18 years, the terrorist group has continuously been terrorising and killing innocent Nigerians with no solution in sight to put an end to the barbaric acts.

Nobody, not even the Muslim faithful either in Nigeria or anywhere in the world, understands where else the terrorist groups received their evil doctrine of killing innocent people.

Notwithstanding claims at different times by security agents, particularly in the army, that Boko Haram terrorists and other insurgency groups have been defeated, repeatedly, the groups keep on terrorising Nigerians.

The government should not wait until when Boko Haram terrorists, Islamic State of West Africa Province and others take over Nigeria before it proffers lasting solutions to the unending insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.

Agunloye  Adewunmi Bashiru,

bagunloye@gmail.com