The Chairman of Borno Emirates Concerned Citizens Forum, Chairman and Spokesman, Alhaji Zanna Boguma
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri-
The Borno Emirates Concerned Citizens Forum has called on the Nigerian military to restrategize its operations against Boko Haram insurgents bedeviling the North-East region.
The forum also appealed to the Federal and State Government to facilitate the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge at various IDPs camps within and outside the State.
The Chairman of the forum, Alhaji Zanna Boguma, who made the appeal during a press conference in Maiduguri, said: “It is apprehensive to note that the recent escalation of insecurity in Borno and Yobe States are frightening. “
“The spade of attacks by the dreaded Boko Haram Insurgents in recent times has evolved to ridicule the security formations in the Northeast sub-region. The Borno Emirates Concerned Citizens Forum expresses with dismay, the recurring attacks on military formations, and the subsequent eviction of constituted authorities in Damasak, Geidam, and Minok by the dreaded Boko Haram Insurgents.”
“There is need for a thorough investigation and reorganization of the security architecture. The point of shifting blames on civilians is over, because looking at the recent mass exodus in Damasak and Geidam, our people are helpless and no living soul will invite such wrath upon themselves”.
“We are calling on the security agencies to as a matter of urgency restrategize their security measures to avoid further deterioration”, Boguma said.
According to him: “It is glaring that the nation’s security outfit is drifting and the wider it becomes, the more the bad elements seize the opportunity to create a non-refillable vacuum”.
The forum further suggested to the Presidency, to immediately summon a National security meeting to address the lingering insecurity in the country, while anticipating to submit a memorandum on the need to reintroduce the Joint Task Force (JTF) to support the overstretched military in the restoration of peace in the land.
The forum further believed that disregarding the traditional system and the subsequent adoption of foreign administrative style has created a vacuum that leads to the current state, while equally appealing to the head of security agencies to beef up their operations against criminals in the country.
He however said that the forum is very much aware of the selfless services of troops in the frontline and consoled with families of the bereaved soldiers that lost their lives in active service.
“The Government should empathize with the families of the brave soldiers, by cushioning their sufferings”, he said.