Forces oppose to exploration of crude oil behind renewed Boko Haram hostilities in Northeast

AN anti-terror group, Coalition Against Terrorism (NCAT) has debunked the believe that  the renewed hostility by Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast is being fuelled by religious philosophy saying the current hostility is as a result of  economic motivations of crude oil in the Lake Chad Basin.

NCAT National Co-ordinator, Comrade Gabriel Onoja said in a statement in Jos, the Plateau state capital, on Sunday said religious philosophy of the terrorists has been overtaken by series of events and dumped for economic motivations, also alleged that the terrorists are suspected to be sponsored by forces opposed to Nigeria’s exploration of crude oil within her territorial boundaries in the Lake Chad Basin.

“The intermittent suicide bomb attacks particularly around the Chad Basin region, as evident in the recent terrorists’ ambush of oil geologists on research mission in the area are prompted by economic considerations” he said.

Onoja who  emphatically declared  that the Boko haram terrorists led by Abubakar Shekau has been defeated by the military however advised that Nigerians not lose track of this dynamism in the focus of Boko Haram terrorists confrontation of Nigeria

He commended the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Tukur Yusufu Buratai and other Service Chiefs complying with the relocation order by the President to the Northeast with every zeal to terminate the journey of terrorism finally.

He said, “This would ensure they defeat every form of new ideology or strategies that the remnants of terrorists and veiled agents may wish to adopt in the nearest future to create an impression of resurgence again.”

Onoja said that the Nigerian military’s  ambitious, determined and courageous tackling of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria,  especially, in the Northeast has conferred on a once troubled and restless nation, respite, normalcy and peace envied by the rest of the world.

According to him,  the respite is not only felt in the Northeast region, but it has berthed in other states/cities in the country previously tormented and terrorized by the Islamic extremist sect, Boko Haram terrorists.