- Nigeria Immigration Service alerts officers on badnits’ movement
The quest for amnesty by the terrorising bandits’ kingpins in Northwest and Northcentral Nigeria may be a way of buying time until their “comrades” foot soldiers finish and return from their Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) training in Northeast Nigeria.
The stretching of links in the whole of the Northern region could be part of ISWAP’s efforts in becoming a “Caliphate,” which is one of the goals of the global terror group leader, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
On Tuesday, Eons Intelligence reported a “Red alert in government security agencies” as bandits’ leaders in Zamfara State were moving their “foot soldiers from Zamfara forests into Borno (State) for tactical training in the new ISWAP camp.”
There has been reports of ongoing partnership of “handshakes between Bandits & ISWAP.”
The bandits from the Northwest and Northcentral have Zamfara as their main sanctuary and the movement to attend terrorism training programmes in Borno State has the States forests as their mustering point.
Already, some of the bandits have reported for the training under the supervision of ISWAP-Boko Haram tested hardline leaders in both ideology indoctrination, strategic and tactical fighting and weapon handling.
Already, ISWAP-Boko Haram terrorists, desirous of recruiting more foot soldiers, are looking even beyond the borders of Nigeria like Northwest and Northcentral.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has in a memo with Reference No NIS/HQ/CGI/943, urged its Comptrollers and other officer cadres to intensify monitoring and surveillance around their areas of jurisdictions with the view to gathering information that would help safeguard lives and properties.
The memo, titled “Movement of Armed Bandits from Zamfara to Borno for Intensive Boko Haram Training” and signed by ACG UA Auna, confirmed the receipt of credible intelligence intimating of movements of the bandits from Zamfara State to Borno State for “intensive Boko Haram Training.”
The memo, therefore, directed the comptrollers to ensure the prompt submission of valuable information for the attention of the Comptroller General of Immigration Service as they unfold.
And ISWAP, intent on its consolidation drive, had last week released a new #EidAlAdha video showing forth its new weapon acquisitions.
Ammunitions and other weapons showcased include the AKM(S)/Type 56(-1) pattern rifles, a possible PM md. 90 AK, Zastava M21S , PK/Type 80 pattern GPMG and Arsenal RPG-7V/ATGL-L LNCHRs with PG-7V /Type 69-1 & OG-7V & Arsenal OGi-7MA rounds seen.
Another interesting feature of last week’s show was the Remington R4 Carbine with M203 UBGL, various 5.56x45mm mags and 40mm grenades, including several M433 pattern grenades, which is the weapon of choice by #ISEAP, a militant group somewhere in the Philippines.