At least 15 terror groups are now operating in Nigeria with the intention of disrupting the upcoming general elections, according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), a human rights organisation.
The organisation responding to the Western terror alert warning in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, claimed that the riotous situation being caused in the nation by Islamic jihadists with covert government support was paving the way for the creation of the Biafra Republic and others.
This was said by Intersociety in a statement titled “Terror Threats And 2023: Government Of Nigeria Is Making Peaceful Change Impossible And Violent Change Inevitable And Riotously Clearing Road For Emergence Of Biafra Republic And Others” that was sent to SaharaReporters.
The organisation issued a warning that Nigerians would only have three options if jihadists were successful in seizing Abuja: the “Valvet Revolution, the Berlin Wall or the Yugoslav Fragmentation”
Principal officers of the organisation Emeka Umeagbalasi Chidinma Udegbunam Chinwe Umeche and Obianuju Joy Igboeli both signed the statement.
The organization’s statement reads: “It is our further observation that the rising jihadist terror threats ahead of Nigeria’s crucial Presidential Poll and others are not accidental as the current Nigerian government has since its inception in 2015 behaved through its policies and actions as if its cardinal governance mission is to promote State Jihadism.”
“The indices on the ground have also practically shown that apart from the increase in the number of Islamic Jihadist groups and the regionalization and internationalization of same using Nigerian landscapes or spaces, the Islamic Jihadists have also made far more inroads or encroachment into Nigeria’s state power, territories and regions than in the previous years before mid 2015,” the organisation said.
“There are no fewer than 15 Islamic jihadist groups presently operating or assembling in the country.” There are also scores of embryonic others littered across the country. As at May 2015, Nigeria had only three well known Islamic Jihadist groups: Boko Haram, Ansaru and ISWAP. Locally and regionally assembled Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen became full-blown and widespread Islamic Jihadist terror organizations after their state actor radicalization and romance with the current government of Nigeria, which started in late 2015.
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“By 2016, they started moving southward and the middle belt wards in widespread under government security establishments’ watch and protection, using the existing centuries-old cattle grazing routes.” As if the above was not enough, the Nigerian government and its security establishments dangerously embarked on sundry jihadist animal husbandry plans camouflaged in different names, including “Military Ranching”, “RUGA”, “National Livestock Transformation Plan”, “Waterway Control Plan”, etc., the organisation alleged.
“The pluralistic and secularism doctrine of the country’s security forces was also dealt a heavy blow under the present government of Nigeria, which also introduced ethnic and religious domination in their command and rank and file structures, leading to rabid operational crudity and partisanship or segregated and discriminatory policing and soldiering.”
The Intersociety organisation stated that the violent and conquering possession of no less than 400 places in the Southeast by Islamic Terror Fulani Herdsmen and their foreign recruits armed with AK-47s was a direct result of the President Buhari-led Nigerian government.
The organisation lamented that since the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War of 1967–1970, no record of the number of defenceless individuals and civilian properties willfully destroyed in Old Eastern Nigeria by Nigerian security forces has been kept.
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