Sponsors Of Terrorists Are In Aso Rock, Governors – Intelligent Expert

• The former member of the Intelligence Brief at the Defence Headquarters mentioned that some terrorists arrested few years back had named their sponsors but the federal government is unwilling to prosecute those accused of sponsoring terrorism in the country

A military intelligent expert, Kunle Olawunmi, on Wednesday said that the sponsors of terrorism are part of the Aso Rock Officials; some are current governors in Nigeria while some are military commanders.

Olawunmi, who was a former navy commodore, made the statement while speaking with Channels TV hosts Chamberlain Usoh and Kayode Okikiolu during Sunrise Daily TV show Wednesday morning.

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The former member of the Intelligence Brief at the Defence Headquarters mentioned that some terrorists arrested few years back had named their sponsors but the federal government is unwilling to prosecute those accused of sponsoring terrorism in the country

He claimed that the government has developed cold feet in fighting insurgency because some government officials are sponsoring the terrorists.

“They (the government) know. Of course, it is in the news. In April this year, the government said they had arrested 400 Bureau De Change (BDCs)-related people that were sponsoring Boko Haram. They told us, but months down the line, the long awaited list is yet to be made public,” Olawunmi said.

“The government has developed cold feet in fighting the insurgency because some of those backing Boko Haram are now top-ranking government officials.

“Why can’t this government, if not that they are partisan, bring those people out for trial?

“I can’t come on air and start mentioning names of people that are presently in the government -that the boys (terrorists) that were arrested mentioned. Some of them are governors.

“Some of them are in the Senate, and some of them are ministers, some of them are in Aso Rock. The Department of State Service (DSS) knows them.

“I have interrogated a high-ranking member of this government on the issue of Boko Haram in 2007/2008 and he was found culpable,” he added.

The security expert gave his opinion on the attack that happened at the National Defence Academy in Kaduna on Tuesday.

He explained that the National Defence Academy is prone to terrorist attacks because the military environment is usually thrown open for Jumaat prayers on Friday’s, allowing terrorists to survey the environment in order to plan their attacks.

“Why should a government decide to cause this kind of embarrassment and insecurity to the sense of what happened yesterday (Tuesday at the NDA)? You don’t attack the Nigerian Defence Academy and get away with it,” he said.

“In 2017, I carried out an investigation by the minister of defence that wanted me to check what was going on with the training and the security there (NDA). I remember I spent about a week in the NDA with the commandant and the staff but something struck me: every Friday, the gate of NDA is thrown open and everybody has access to pray in the mosque.

“On Fridays, you are going to see same thing happening across all military formations in the country…If you go to Defence Headquarters, I served at the Defence Headquarters as the Deputy Director, Defence Administration between 2015 and 2017, throughout my two years at the Defence Headquarters, I received visitors twice because of the strict security architecture there but every Friday, the gate of the Defence Headquarters is thrown wide open for everybody to come in and observe Jumaat.

“That is the time the terrorists have the time to profile our security environment. It has always been the case. I have served in the military intelligence for the past 35 years. Our problem is religion and socio-cultural.”