Boko Haram Regional Power Claim: Senator Garbai under Intense Attack
Boko Haram Regional Power Claim: Senator
Garbai under Intense Attack
The Northern Inter-Faith Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) has decried statement credited to the Senator representing Borno Central, Baba Kaka Garbai, which suggested that the Boko Haram insurgents still controls 50 percent of Borno State.
The clerics in a statement on Tuesday observed that the Senators comments meant that Garbai is sympathetic to the terror group.
National Spiritual Leader of the group, Bishop Musa Phomson, in a statement noted that the Borno State Governor Shettima, and the highest ranking Senator from the State, Senator Ali Ndume, have condemned Senator Garbai, for the alarmist claim that half of the state is still under Boko Haram control.
He however said the comment by Garbai must be investigated by the Department of State Security (DSS) and the police as it represents a deliberate propaganda by some individuals to create disharmony within the military command, and could well be one of the strategies used in building new cells and recruiting youths into the ranks of the terrorists.
Phomson said it is obvious that following the annihilation of the terrorists by the military, the political wings have now stepped up their attacks in an attempt to demoralise the gallantry of the troops
"The fallout of the political Boko Haram is the on-going vituperative by those acting the script. We have read what they put out in the public space to mislead the public by suggesting that ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’, the Army operations against the insurgents is at variance with the overall military command as embodied by the Defence Headquarters. They even went as far as insinuating rivalry between the Chief of Army Staff and the Chief of Defence Staff to make things look like the CDS is being outshine by the successes of the Army to curtail the war against terrorism," he said.
The Northern Inter-Faith Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) has decried statement credited to the Senator representing Borno Central, Baba Kaka Garbai, which suggested that the Boko Haram insurgents still controls 50 percent of Borno State.
The clerics in a statement on Tuesday observed that the Senators comments meant that Garbai is sympathetic to the terror group.
National Spiritual Leader of the group, Bishop Musa Phomson, in a statement noted that the Borno State Governor Shettima, and the highest ranking Senator from the State, Senator Ali Ndume, have condemned Senator Garbai, for the alarmist claim that half of the state is still under Boko Haram control.
He however said the comment by Garbai must be investigated by the Department of State Security (DSS) and the police as it represents a deliberate propaganda by some individuals to create disharmony within the military command, and could well be one of the strategies used in building new cells and recruiting youths into the ranks of the terrorists.
Phomson said it is obvious that following the annihilation of the terrorists by the military, the political wings have now stepped up their attacks in an attempt to demoralise the gallantry of the troops
"The fallout of the political Boko Haram is the on-going vituperative by those acting the script. We have read what they put out in the public space to mislead the public by suggesting that ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’, the Army operations against the insurgents is at variance with the overall military command as embodied by the Defence Headquarters. They even went as far as insinuating rivalry between the Chief of Army Staff and the Chief of Defence Staff to make things look like the CDS is being outshine by the successes of the Army to curtail the war against terrorism," he said.
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