The Nigeria’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) has asked the Federal Government to carry out detailed investigation on the sources of arms supply for the Boko Haram sect and step up intelligence gathering in order to stamp out insurgency in the country.
In a statement today by its President, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama and Secretary General, Comrade Musa Lawal, the Congress condemned last week’s bombings in Abuja and Maiduguri, describing the attacks as needless and mindless.
It advised the government to draft security agents to cities, including the interior villages to ensure the safety of Nigerians, stressing that such move is necessary now. “It expedient also that intelligence reports are stepped up, especially as it is being rumoured that the insurgents could have sent out more suicide bombers to the FCT and some states in the Northeast.
“Everyone knows that the security operatives are doing so much to curtail the activities of the sect. But we would like to add that they become more and more proactive, to prove superiority of strategies. It is bad the attacks took place, but worse that it happened a day after the nation’s 55th independence.” [myad]