Nigeria: Boko Haram - Crushing the 'Fifth Columnists'

It is important that the military internally re-organises itself. The Chief of Defence Staff needs to gather more intelligence reports and fish out the bad eggs in the military.

Recently Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, Marshal Alex Badeh raised an alarm on the presence of "fifth columnists" in the Armed Forces and that this has been responsible for conflicting information emanating from the military concerning the activities of the Boko Haram group in the North -East of the country. Referring to the information that was given to the media following the kidnap of the Chibok girls in May of this year, Marshal Badeh asked; "If your people are misleading you, what do you do?"

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