{"id":27925,"date":"2020-08-07T19:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2020-08-07T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:13:31","slug":"military-allays-fear-over-alleged-al-qaeda-isis-inroad-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27925","title":{"rendered":"Military allays fear over alleged Al-Qaeda, ISIS inroad to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sumaila Ogbaje (NAN)<\/strong>
\nThe Defence Headquarters has allayed\u00a0fears of Nigerians over\u00a0 alleged plans by Al-Qaeda and ISIS to make an inroad into Southern Nigeria and penetrate the north-western part of the country.
\nThe Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, while answering questions from newsmen at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja, said there was nothing to fear about the claim.
\nThe U.S. had said that Al-Qaeda and ISIS were looking to make an inroad into Southern Nigeria and that Al-Qaeda had started penetrating the north-western part of the country.
\nDagvin Anderson, Commander of the U.S. special operations command, Africa, made the claim in a digital briefing on Wednesday.
\nEnenche, however, said that the claim was nothing but just an alarm and that Nigeria security agencies were equal to the task, urging the pubic not be afraid of such claim.
\nThe coordinator, who described the statement as a wakeup call or form of advice,\u00a0said that the security agencies were on top of the situation.
\n\u201cOn the issue that terrorists from other zones are coming to the country, I think it will be good for us to be keeping records as events are unfolding, for me this is not the first time they are raising such an alarm.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0as good as may be five or ten years ago, and the armed forces and the country are conscious of it.
\n\u201cWhen the conflict in Libya was declared ended and which actually was not, what happened? It was we, our NIA and the SSS that said these people were moving which is true.
\n\u201cHave we not captured foreigners that have been terrorising us in this country?
\n\u201cSo it is just a piece of advice or call that you still keep doing what you are doing, of which I can assure the general public that the security agencies are on top of that,\u201d he said.
\nEnenche said that the military in their recent exploits had captured some foreigners who came from neighbouring countries in Niger State.
\n\u201cWhere are they coming from, why do we have ISWAP here now, or is ISWAP indigenous from Nigeria? No. So it is telling you the obvious and I want to tell you that look, continue to ensure that you have measures in place to continue taming them.
\n`I read the details of the presentation, it was not accusing, it was not specific, it is like saying you people, should put efforts to continue to contain them.
\n\u201cBecause when pressure is on them from other climes,\u00a0they will still continue to increase their influx,\u201d he said.
\nEneche also said that the military was winning the battle against terrorism in the country, adding that huge successes had been recorded.
\nHe added that while the people outside there do expectation analysis, the military do operational analysis based on the direction of operation.
\nAccording to him, what has flattened it is that you will discover that from March up till now,\u00a0it is offensive, offensive with sacrifices made on the part of the military.
\n\u201cYes, of course, we lost some people but the gains have outweighed what we lost\u00a0which is what we signed for, so what you have seen is success and it will continue to improve.
\n\u201cThis is because, as it is now,\u00a0we have been given marching orders again, all we need to do is to go and dig up where we have our contingencies because by our training, we are trained to face challenges,\u201d he said.
\nEnenche explained that the terrorists had been decimated seriously, adding that there was leadership problem in the enemy camp at present.
\nAccording to him, the air and artillery bombardment conducted have decimated them and this is going to dovetail into all the other major aspects of the initial strategies of the northeast which is domination and occupation and we are getting there.
\nBy NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sumaila Ogbaje (NAN) The Defence Headquarters has allayed\u00a0fears of Nigerians over\u00a0 alleged plans by Al-Qaeda and ISIS to make an inroad into Southern Nigeria and penetrate the north-western part of the country. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, while answering questions from newsmen at the updates briefing on military operations across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2090,1048,1073],"class_list":["post-27925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-defence","tag-enenche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}