Boko Haram: Nigerian govt never lost control in engaging terrorists - US agency counters ISSA

- An agency has countered claims that the Nigerian government has lost control of the fight against insurgencies

- The US-based agency described the report as fallacy and mischievous

- According to Universal Watch Network, the report by ISSA is filled with rehashed information, innuendos, half-truths and outright lies

A United States of America-based agency has countered reports that the Nigerian government lost control of its fight against terrorists in the northeast.

The agency, the Universal Watch Network said the claim by International Strategic Studies Association that the federal government and the Nigerian military is no longer sure of what faction of the terrorist group it is fighting was a fallacy and mischievous.

According to UWN, the "propaganda first surfaced as a report by Washington-based group, International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA) here in the United States, which has now been repeated by many indigenous media organizations in Nigeria as intended by the originators of the report."

The vice president, political affairs at the UWN, Roberts Gordon, in a statement released on Monday, December 31, said the report is filled with rehashed information, innuendos, half-truths and outright lies.

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Gordon said: “The report pushed the lie that the Nigerian government has lost the control in engaging Boko Haram while the country’s intelligence community is no longer sure of what faction of the terrorist group it is fighting. Nothing can be further from the truth since Boko Haram has not been able to achieve what its foreign sponsors had intended for it to achieve in Nigeria."

“Nigeria is no stranger to doomsday reports like the one issued by ISSA. The United States National Intelligence Council once issued a report that Nigeria will not exist beyond 2015 as it would disintegrate into smaller enclave states along ethno-geographic fault lines.

“Even when much was done to destabilize Nigeria to achieve this evil objective, the political maturity that produced the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in the same year and the patriotic disposition of his administration with a committed Nigerian Armed Forces frustrated the projection of Nigeria’s demise," he said.

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Gordon further said that the UWN challenges the ISSA to publish an objective report that acknowledges the role being played by western powers in arming, training and funding Boko Haram and its variants in Nigeria.

He tasked the ISSA for a fair disclosure on the nature of its relationship with the main opposition in Nigeria while also revealing the source of its funding.

“In the meantime, we are alerting Nigerians to beware of ‘Terrorists Politically- aided Propaganda (TP2) like the ISSA report, which is calculated to do damage to the country. We envisage that more of such reports will be released in the coming days and they bound to become tools in the hands of politicians that will cite such report to vote against a government that has laid the foundation to giving Nigeria back to Nigerians as is the norm in other democracies.

“We urge the Federal Government of Nigeria to explore diplomatic means of calling ISSA to order since that organization’s activities directly threaten the well-being and security of Nigerians. The government must treat the report as a threat to the country and must not treat it with indifference," Gordon said.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that following an attack on Baga, a fishing town in the northern part of Borno state on Wednesday, December 26, the Nigerian Army said the attackers have been repelled and reported the loss of a naval personnel.

A statement by Army spokesperson, Brig-General Sani Kukasheka Usman, the insurgents on Wednesday, December, 26, attacked the 7 Brigade of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), based in Baga, Borno state, at about 7pm.

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