The Centre for Social Justice,
Equity and Transparency (CESJET) said it is set to storm Sambisa forest, north
eastern Nigeria and other parts of the country with 20 other local and
international organizations.
The group said the visit will
further ascertain the level of success in the counter-insurgency war, as well
as troops’ responsiveness to emergency and the current state of affairs of the
various operations being carried out by the military.
Addressing journalists in Abuja,
Joyce Ogwu, the CESJET Executive Director, said it was the group’s belief that
the outcome of the tour will offer insight that would dampen the distraction
currently placed in the path of the military.
The group while also reacting to
the various reports in the aftermath of the recent adoption of 110 schoolgirls
from Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi, Yobe State,
cautioned individuals or politicians to desist from attempting to make
political gains from the tragic incident.
According to her, the attack by
the terrorists was a desperate attempt to continue to remain relevant using
propaganda as the last tool after troops decimated them into near
insignificance and being used as a shield by enemies of Nigeria who wanted to
see the country fail.
“The devious purveyors of
falsehood that are milking this tragedy are creating the impression that the
counter-insurgency war has halted or has failed in the aftermath of the attack
on Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi.
“We have found such claims to not
only be untrue but also mischief at its height. Our concern is that such
manipulation of reality is calculated to boost the morale of Boko Haram
terrorists to regroup from their defeat. They had earlier scattered into the
desert and neighboring countries after the Nigerian Army dealt them crippling
blows but are now being given confidence by those that are exploiting the
Dapchi girls to instigate the terrorists to come back together. We are seeing a
repeat of strategies earlier deployed by Boko Haram come into play all over
again,” he said.
She stated that the war against
insurgency was very much on course and President Muhammadu Buhari still
deserved commendations for all that had been achieved in this regard.
She said, “Unlike the series of
attacks in the past that showed the display of helplessness by the military,
the Nigerian military has continued to maintain recovered grounds.
“It is apparent that those
peddling negative stories about the war on insurgency do so because they
believe they can instigate Nigerians to force the military to divulge full
details of its strategy in the counter-insurgency war because there has been
reported changes in the approach adopted against the terrorists.”
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