Foreign Forces Have Hijacked Boko Haram

A political scientist, Prof. Osisioma Nwolise, has stated that the Boko Haram sect has grown more deadly because it has been hijacked by foreign forces and its being used to destabilize the country.

The university don stated that the lack of spiritual intelligence by the military was responsible for their inability to overcome the  Boko Haram insurgency in the country.



Nwolise, who is head of Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, and pioneer Director of Training and Programme with National Defence College, said this in a lecture titled, “Insecurity as a threat to 2015 general elections in Nigeria,” he delivered on Tuesday in Abuja, to mark the 4th anniversary of the National Mirror titles.

He blamed the Federal Government for allowing the insurgency to fester  by failing to concede to the initial few  demands of the sect.

He  said, “As of the time I was begging and calling for dialogue with the sect, the members were making four simple demands: compensation for their things damaged by security agents, rebuilding of their mosques, trial of policemen who killed their leaders and release of their members in custody.

“As of that time, our politicians had not hijacked the sect to fight the Jonathan administration. Today, foreign forces have hijacked the sect from our politicians, and the target now is no more Jonathan’s government but the soul of Nigeria.”

The guest lecturer said that beyond physical and military mights which the Nigerian military was employing, the Boko Haram insurgents have proven to be deeply spiritual in their operations which was making it look as if the soldiers have suddenly become cowards, after all the successes Nigerian military is recording in various missions across the world.

Although he said that it would be difficult for some people to accept his new findings, he said, “nobody can fully understand, predict, control and manage the complete security architecture of any human being or a nation without fully grasping the spiritual dimension.

Nwolise said that the soldiers were giving their best within the confines of the military hardware, while the Boko Haram were doing more havoc by the day because they knew better when, where and how to hit, in view of their spiritual intelligence.