Source: THISDAYLIVE
The federal government on Friday raised the alarm that Boko Haram
terrorists operating in the northeast are planning to abduct school
pupils, students or foreigners in a desperate effort to raise funds,
through ransom, for food, medical and arms supply.
The terrorists had in April 2014 abducted over 200 school girls from
the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, and the girls are
still in captivity.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a
statement noted that the planned abduction is a new strategy adopted by
terrorists to focus on soft targets, having been routed from their
stronghold and their capacity to stage spectacular attacks substantially
degraded.
According to the minister, the largely defeated terrorists have now
concentrated their attacks on soft targets, like motor parks, schools
and entertainment centres, sincethey have been decimated to a level that
they are now incapable of staging spectacular attacks like they used to
do.
''The kidnap of the Chibok girls in 2014, which attracted global
attention to the terrorist group, is what they are trying to repeat,
hoping it can find vulnerable targets, especially schools, or a group of
foreigners outside the frontline states. The plan by Boko Haram is also
part of an overall strategy by the terrorists to seek to negatively
impact on the psyche of the gallant troops who have routed them
(terrorists) from their stronghold and also give the impression that
they have not been largely defeated by the December 2015 deadline given
by this Administration to effectively degrade the insurgency in the
North-east," he said.
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