Boko Haram insurgency: Operation Wetie as final solution, By Majeed Dahiru

A recent Boko Haram terror attack on a farming community in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno state may have left over 40 people dead. The attack which took place at about 5 p.m. on Sunday 12 January is coming after a similar attack by drone flying insurgents on a military unit that left scores of personnel dead. These recent attacks are stack reminders of the unending Boko Haram terror and insurgency that has plagued Nigeria’s North-East corner for more than 14 years since it started effectively in 2010 in Borno State.

Founded by Mohammed Yusuf, an influential Muslim cleric and virulent advocate of Islamism in Nigeria, the Boko Haram group whose official name is Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah Wa lid Da’wah wa’l Jihad (Group of the people of Prophetic tradition of propagation and armed struggle) has as its ultimate goal, the forceful obliteration of Nigeria and its replacement with an Islamic state. True to their name, the Borno based group started out in 2002 as an…