Public affairs analyst Dr. Mahmud Jega has raised serious questions about how Boko Haram managed to mobilise a large number of fighters to simultaneously attack three military forward operating bases in Borno State without being detected.
Speaking from 10:43 on the incident, Jega highlighted the possible failure in the country’s intelligence architecture. “How was Boko Haram able to move large bodies of insurgents to attack three military forward operating bases simultaneously, overrun them, and even kill the commanding officers — it suggests that there was total intelligence failure. Could the aerial intelligence platforms not identify them?” he said.
Jega pressed further, arguing that the geography of Borno State makes the failure even harder to explain. “Borno is not a heavily forested place like Akwa Ibom. It is flat land with sparse trees. How is it that nobody saw large bodies of insurgents moving to ambush and attack Army forward operating bases?” he said.
Beyond electronic and aerial surveillance, he questioned why human intelligence had also failed to pick up the movement to alert security forces before the attack was launched. Read_More…