Newsbreak:TRUMP’S PLAN TO ATTACK TERRORIST CELLS IN NIGERIA

ISIS orders members to reorganise, brace up for resistance in Nigeria

By Ahmed Shenge

The Islamic State In Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered its fighters in Nigeria to brace up for coordinated resistance.

Many militants groups in Nigeria are linked with either ISIS or Al Queda.

The United States President, Mr Donald Trump had warned Nigerian leaders against unchecked killings spaning more than one decade. The country has become an embarrassment to both citizens and the international community that watch hundreds of people massacred almost every week.

Trump said he would order attacks on terrorist cells in Nigeria, a plan that has raised both fear and hope.

The plan has been hailed by millions of Nigerians who see Mr Trump’s gesture as a big relief from sleepless nights, cold blooded murder and mass murder that characterise Nigeria. More than 11,000 people have been killed across Nigeria by extremist groups.

In a direct response to President Trump ISIS called its fighters in Nigeria to develop a new strategic response to Mr Trump’s call indicating that the killings in Nigeria are coordinated internationally.

In its official news organ, Al-Naba online magazine obtained by Irohinoodua, ISIS called on Islmist extremists from across Africa “to undertake new field measures out of a sense of “precaution.”

The ISIS said
“This caution includes redeploying and repositioning the mujahideen units on the ground, halting large field gatherings and replacing them with smaller groups, mobile and silent.”

Analysts suggest this might mean more coordinated attacks including suicide bombings across Nigeria.

Newsweek quoted the article with ISIS calling on fighters to master the “arts of camouflage and blending into the environment” as well as “necessarily being wary of phones and what is connected to it, as it is indeed an eye on the mujahideen.”

The Secretary General, Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements, (AYDM) Mr Popoola Ajayi called on the South West State Governors to beware of the consequences of the proposed US strike.

“The terrorists will move in large numbers to the South West. They will seek to cause havoc and destabilise the country,” he said.

AYDM said the leaders in Yorubaland have no “strategy of response” adding that the bad leadership, isolation of the elected leaders from the cultural and social forces are factors that might promote insurgency even among the millions of disgruntled and impoverished Yoruba masses.

“Our people in the South West are impoverished amidst the opulence of their leaders. This is coming at a time the purchasing power of the people is very low and their leaders have turned their back against them. The consequences of a strike from the US might lead to a revolution of aggrieved forces in Nigeria,” he said.