SIR: While the world is being ravaged by the Coronavirus pandemic and permanent solution is being sought, Nigeria, as a country, has turned into a theatre of killings through the activities of terrorists notably by the notorious Boko Haram terrorist group and its splinter group Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Daily, the Northeast states, most especially Borno State, are been terrorised on a monthly basis. In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people most especially the innocent people have lost their lives.
While all these unnecessary killings continue, the government keeps claiming that the terrorists have been defeated or decimated, but the fact still remains that the terrorist groups are very much on ground and attacking military formations. The military have lost several of its personnel just as scores of humanitarian aid workers have been killed.
Many schools, markets, places of worship were either destroyed or burnt down by the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province.
In the year 2020 alone, between the two notorious terrorists group, the Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province, more than 50 terror attacks were carried out with close to one thousand deaths recorded.
Most recent terror attack by the Boko Haram terrorist group was the killing of 11 Christians on Christmas Eve of 2020 in a village of Pemi, Borno State. This was about one month after the killings of 110 farmers in Koshebe, village, Borno State.
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Nigeria has systematically become the number one terrorist hit country in Africa, while Boko Haram terrorist group has become one of the deadliest terror groups not only in Nigeria and Africa but on global arena.
Unlike other terrorists groups in the world, the Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province also engaged in the kidnapping of schoolgirls and schoolboys. They always kidnapped their victims at will.
What makes the Nigeria terrorist groups most notorious in Africa is the fact that they operate on weekly basis. Throughout year 2020, every month from January to December Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province carried out terror attacks in which thousands of innocent lives were usually involved.
What is worrisome is the fact that Nigerian Government keeps saying that the terrorists have been defeated while Boko Haram and its rival,the Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) continue to attack killing and kidnapping both the civilians and military personnel.
How can thr terrorists group dominate a section of the country for over five years without the government and the military finding permanent solution to their activities and stop the madness, senseless and barbaric killings?
What is going on in Nigeria in the area of insecurity leaves one to wonder if Nigeria as a country will not at some point succumb to the evil forces.
Agunloye Adewunmi Bashiru, writes from Lagos
bagunloye@gmail.com
