Nigeria: Boko Haram - Ex-Police Chiefs Ehindero, Tsav Call for Improved Intelligence

25 June 2011

Lagos — The Police Command in Maiduguri, Borno State, has called on Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic sect blamed for a series of deadly attacks in northern Nigeria to declare a ceasefire and come to dialogue.

This came as former Inspector General of Police, Chief Sunday Ehindero, and former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav, called for improved intelligence as a way of combating the new wave of terrorism creeping into the country.

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