Nigeria Should Take US Warning On Movement Of Al-Qaeda As ‘Sign Of Danger’– Moghalu
Former presidential candidate, Kingsley Moghalu says the federal government should not underplay the recent intelligence reports from the United States about possible infitration of Al-Qaeda terrorists into the country.
Moghalu stressed that such reports should be considered a warning about impending danger.
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“US intelligence warnings ISIS and Al-Qaeda are penetrating Nigeria is a red flag.
“If we combine this with current security challenges in Southern Kaduna, herdsmen killers, BH, banditry in the northwest, plus evidently weak security capacity, what’s the realistic future?,” he tweeted on Monday.
Recall that Dagvin Anderson, Commander of U.S Special Operations Command in Africa, in a press briefing last week, said that the American government had information that terrorists were entering the country.
“And that has been absolutely critical to their engagements up in the Borno State and into an emerging area of northwest Nigeria that we’re seeing al-Qaida starting to make some inroads in.
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“So this intelligence sharing is absolutely vital and we stay fully engaged with the Government of Nigeria to provide them an understanding of what these terrorists are doing, what Boko Haram is doing, what ISIS-West Africa is doing, and how ISIS and al-Qaida are looking to expand further south into the littoral areas, ” he said.
However, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, on Thursday, in his reaction, said that it was not a new development and that it already knows that such movements were taking place.
But Enenche assured that the security apparatus in the country would take them out.
“So, it is just like a call to keep doing what you are doing, so the general public should know that the security agencies are on top of that one,” he said.
But Moghalu was of the view that beyond the response, Nigerians needed to be assured that the country was safe.
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His tweet further reads:
“We should hope that our authorities realize the implications of these pressures from without and within.
“Nigerians need to feel secure In a practical sense.
“Else, all these pressures do not bode well.”
