Election Shift:How to stop Boko Haram in six weeks (EXPOSED)

General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, a former Minister of Communications, during his service years served as commander, Corps of Artillery and General Officer Commanding, Third Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos, a post once held by General Muhammadu Buhari at the beginning of the eighties.

 Olanrewaju, now a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State in this interview reviews issues emanating from the shift of the elections among other things.

 What was your reaction to the shift of the elections?

 If we really want a free and fair election, we must create a conducive environment for it. And I believe that the last two or three weeks for INEC have been a very, very difficult time for them not being able to meet the responsibility of ensuring that most people have access to their PVCs. And it would be unfair to the large segment of Nigerians to be denied the opportunity to exercise their rights of voting. So, that alone is a positive thing towards ensuring that there is a free, fair and transparent election. But on the other hand, the issue of security is something beyond INEC. It is beyond our own understanding because in the last few days we now have other foreign forces working together with us in ensuring that we are able to tackle this problem once and for all.

 Superior capability

 They will need sometime to work together in order to ensure that they nip this problem in the bud. It will require some time. This is what we call time and space in military warfare… (Cuts in)

 But do you see the military doing in six weeks what they failed to do in five years?

 I am not going to dip my finger on that to say that the war definitely will take about six weeks. There is this sub-regional effort with the collaboration of the United Nations. It will command a formidable and superior capability that can respond more actively in the battlefield. The air force and the ground forces must work in a collective, integrated and fashionable manner to keep the enemy ceaselessly on the defensive and keep the initiative off their hands because attack is the best of defence. If they can adopt this strategy it will go a long way to work within the time and space available. Gen. Olarenwaju (rtd) Logistics and administration must be sustainable so that there will be no break and finally some confidence building will be attainable if all these measures are properly co-opted and directed. This is just my own analysis of the threat perception that I can get from the media reports and, on the basis of this, being a former GOC of the area, the 3rd Armoured Division, and of course you forcing me to talk (laughs) that I have given my own advice in the interest of the nation.

This operational concept which I have suggested is becoming a worldwide answer to insurgency that is ravaging some part of the globe. The regional force is also what the USA, United States of America is adopting in collaborative alliance with other national forces to counter insurgency that is ravaging some parts of the world. So, the dimension that Boko Haram has taken will require a regional force and ground strategy to deal with the threat posed by it, particularly in some West Africa countries. This is so also because it is not only that they are adopting guerrilla tactics, but they are coming out en-masse in carrying out their threat.

They are in the open and also fighting conventionally. It is a combination of the two. They are identifiable forces when they are fighting in their own uniforms and boots. So you need to employ a lot of intelligence to peep into their assembly area and carry the fight to them there. At the end of this phase of the Boko Haram war, there should be a retraining programme on counter- insurgency for our armed forces.

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