BREAKING: BOKO HARAM IS A CIA COVERT OPERATION – WIKILEAKS — The DEFENDER

[DR SIKIRU ENIOLA]

https://thedefenderngr.com/breaking-boko-haram-is-a-cia-covert-operation-wikileaks/

[Femi Kolapo]

it reads rather too speculative to me and is in disregard of much of the research on local, regional, and trans-regional factors that bred and sustain BK. I wonder which major crisis area in the world can boast an absence of the presence of superpower intelligence agents and networks. It would be unintelligent for African intelligence services to not know and work on that basis.

That the CIA has better intelligence tracking and might even have moles among the BK would not surprise anybody. Have they not shared information about BK movements with Nigerian intelligence services before, which shows that they have feelers in the area and have interests in monitoring developments, a capacity that can only be based on leveraging private and official links with and to BK. Can they use elements of BK to maintain some leverage in the crisis area? Of course, they can. It happened in Afghanistan and more recently in Syria. 

But all this is different from making BK a creation of the CIA, i think. BK is a monster with local roots, however much of it has been fertilized from outside and whichever section of it looks like an extraneous graft.

Femi  J. Kolapo  

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