Upon assuming office in May this year, President Buhari changed his military service chiefs and gave them an end of the year deadline to end the ongoing insurgency in the north east. While the military are looking to crush the armed insurgents, the CCC is working on finding a peaceful solution to the crisis and is believed to have initiated talks with some Boko Haram factions.
However, CCC executive secretary Retired Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, has expressed fears that the deadline is not feasible notwithstanding the great strides being recorded by the military. He added that the timeline to stop the insurgents from activating sleeper cells and detonating bombs into soft targets in any part of the country is not tenable.
Commodore Anas said: “It must also be stated that this target date might be unrealistic. This submission is predicated on the fact that asymmetric warfare which the Boko Haram is prosecuting against Nigeria is not such that can be easily be stamped out by the armed forces.
"Similarly, we should also not trade blame with the military over the issue. Nigerians should rather continue to cooperate with the government and support the security forces to ensure that the enemies do not continue to have an opportunity to unleash terror in our country.”
Quoting the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, Commodore Anas added that terrorism as an ideology is largely emotive because it has to do with the mind. He pointed out that force has never been known to combat terrorism or any issue that has to do with the mind in a precise manner.
He therefore urged Nigerians not to see the December target as sacrosanct date when all suicide bombings will end. Concerning the millions already displaced by the insurgency, the CCC expressed concern about their plight, which it described as precarious and needing urgent attention.
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