Security expert Salihu Dantata has alleged that a significant portion of villagers in Borno State are actively feeding intelligence to insurgent groups serves as one of the most dangerous and underappreciated dimensions of the Northeast crisis.
Speaking in an interview from 7:18 with Arise TV, Dantata said, “There is the lack of ownership and involvement by some of the people at the receiving end of this insecurity. Like in Borno State, for instance, where in most villages more than a quarter of the inhabitants are informants to some of these insurgents, because they see them as their kin and brothers and sometimes the ideologies they are preaching are seen as if they are the right thing,” he said.
Dantata highlighted that the consequences of this infiltration were playing out in real time, with security forces being repeatedly ambushed because their movements were being reported to insurgents before they could reach their targets.
He called on governors and local government chairmen in affected states to take an active role in community sensitisation, arguing that winning the ideological battle within these villages is just as important as the military campaign being waged in the field. Read_More…