Security agencies have intensified astuteness and surveillance operations in the South-East to curb the incursion of Boko Haram into the zone.
It was amassed that the apprehend of 486 Boko Haram suspects in Abia State, jolted the security agencies and made them to revise their strategy to include incipient security measures and high caliber astuteness-amassing to safeguard the zone from insurgent attack.
The identification of a Boko Haram kingpin among the suspects, was verbally expressed to have sent a vigorous signal to ascendant entities that the midnight peregrinators might be terror moles sent to lie low in the South-East zones for future attacks.
It was additionally learnt that the plot to bomb the Winners’ Chapel, Owerri, Imo State, recently reinforced the notion that the seed of terrorism might have been sown in the South-East by nefarious elements utilizing the “Boko Haram franchise” for their own malefactor goals.
Security sources verbally expressed that the police for example, had incremented their surveillance capacities and were working to ascertain that the bellicose sect did not compound the security challenge in the country by elongating its bloody campaign to the southern zone.
A source verbalized, “The security agencies have been working strenuously to forestall Boko Haram from embedding themselves in the southern part of the country and elongating their bloody campaign to the zone. We have stepped up surveillance operations and astuteness amassing capabilities and the partnership between all the accommodations is great.”
The source, who declined to reveal other measures being taken by the security ascendant entities for strategic reasons, explicated that the Boko Haram incursion into the southern part of the country portended disastrous consequences for the nation.
Our correspondent was apprised that the endeavored bombing of Winners’ Chapel in Imo State, was another vigorous designation that terrorism was expeditious spreading to proximately every component of the country.
It was further amassed that the security agencies were under pressure to forestall terrorist attacks in the major cities and densely populated towns, which might precipitate grave convivial unrest in components of the country hitherto impervious to the security crisis in the country.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, verbalized that the police had been on red vigilant for a while, noting that the incremented perspicacity capacity of the Force and collaboration with other security agencies made the apprehend of the 486 terror suspects possible.
Asked whether the police had incremented surveillance in the southern zone of the country, Mba verbally expressed every component of the country was being well-policed, integrating that no part was getting more attention than the others.
He verbally expressed, “The police have incremented their perspicacity capabilities and working in collaboration with other security agencies, we were able to apprehend the 486 suspects in Abia State.”
